This document provides a summary of a hacker's journey and philosophy over several years from 2005 to 2010. It discusses the author's curiosity and exploration of systems from a young age. It emphasizes that sharing and collaboration are key to progress, and encourages inducing a culture of free and open source software for mutual benefit. The author advocates having fun and giving people time before judging them.

1. A Hacker's Apology Aanjhan Ranganathan @tuxmaniac

2. whoami

3. whoami

4. So lets get started...

6. Not the only thing that went wrong...

7. When we were kids...

9. You* became OLD ... * - Heights of me living in denial

10. We were educated

12. Pleasure of finding things out..

14. Curiosity is the fuel for all inventions and development .

15. Next up... It wouldn't hurt if we knew where we came from...

16. Pascal Adder - 1642

19. Hacker Any person who likes to explore details of a system and extend their functionality as opposed to most people who prefer to learn the bare minimum.

21. Love to share and collaborate

26. Sharing and collaboration is the key

27. A personal journey 2005 to 2010

28. FOSS.IN 2005

31. Bottom line: Have fun When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you . – Randy Pausch

32. And one more thing...

33. Preach culture of Free software NOT the politics / philosop hy

34. Hold your fire

35. 2006

36. Something was wrong

37. Change of strategy

38. Santosh Vattam @vattam 2007 - “I am stupid. I don't know anything” 2010 – Google Summer of Code 2008, 2009 GsoC Mentor 2010 RTEMS Developer FOSSEE Member Upenn Grad Student

39. Madhusudhan C S @madhusudancs 2007 -- “Do you think I can make it to GSoC” 2010 – Google Summer of Code '08,'09 GsoC Mentor 2010 Melange Core developer SciPy developer Sponsored by Google to attend Melange all-hands meeting in EU and US

40. Goal : Induce the CULTURE of Free software Output : WIN-WIN situation

41. Its time for #OperationPayback

42. Inquire Discover Share Have fun

43. Thank you and bye-bye! You will be missed...