7-464: Atul Chitnis (20 February 1962 – 3 June 2013) was an Indo-German consulting technologist. He was one of the organizers of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore ), which was one of Asia's free and open source software (FOSS) conferences. In 1989, Chitnis set up a Bulletin Board System (BBS) called CiX which provided an entry point for many users to online communities. He was the author of
14-714: A PCQuest magazine column – COMversations. Chitnis gave talks on data communication in Indian industry, the Internet and intranets. As a Consulting Editor for PCQuest , he worked on the PCQuest Linux Initiative . Working as a volunteer in the FOSS community such as the Bangalore Linux User Group , and through seminars and articles, he encouraged use of FOSS technologies. Chitnis was one of
21-641: A popular destination for higher learning, and of the total student population in Germany about 12% are International students. Hundreds of schools in India have signed up to teach students German as their primary foreign language as part of an effort by Germany's top technical colleges to attract more Indian students. As a result, there has been a steady increase in the Indian student population in Germany which has quadrupled in 7 years since 2008. Of these, more than 80% Indian students pursue their studies or research in
28-531: The German government estimated that the number of people of Indian descent residing in Germany at 110,204, of which 43,175 people were holding an Indian passport, while 67,029 were holding a German passport. In 2023 the number stood at about 273,000 of Indian descent of which 198,000 had a migration background. According to the Federal Statistical Office the number of nationals from India is
35-494: The documentary ‘Translated lives’, around 5,000 women migrated from Kerala during the 1960s and 70s to become nurses there. Since the 2010s, the Indian population also grew in former East Germany due to Indian students who study mostly in technical universities. Unlike other minorities, there are many Indians in cities like Chemnitz and Leipzig and the state of Saxony has the largest population of federal state in former East Germany with about 9,000 Indians. Germany has become
42-990: The organizers of the Linux Bangalore series of FOSS community driven conferences. FOSS.IN is said to have been one of Asia's largest annual FOSS events. Atul also served as one of the members of the faculty committee at the National Resource Centre For Free/Open Source Software. He often spoke at various fora on FOSS technology and adoption. Atul Chitnis was diagnosed with intestinal cancer in August 2012. He died on 3 June 2013. Indians in Germany The Indian community in Germany includes Indian expatriates residing in Germany, as well as German citizens of Indian origin or descent . In 2009,
49-547: The second largest in Germany from either South, South East, East or Central Asia, only below the number of nationals from Afghanistan. Small numbers of Indian students resided in Germany before and during the Second World War. In early to late 1960s and 1970s, many Malayali Catholic women from Kerala were recruited by the German Catholic institutions to work as nurses in German hospitals. According to
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