For, Deepak and I had nothing to do at Hampi This was basically about the FOSS.IN registration charges. Really, considering that they had corporate sponsors all the same.. 500Rs / head for students, and the Rs 600 otherwise was too atrocious a price to pay. Also, bear in mind that the event ran through week-days for the most part..and that their primary motive should 've been rather that they promote participation than charge unnecessary sums of money. To the normal college goer, it's not just bunking that couple of classes (or days herein) that mattered here, for 500Rs is a fair sum of money by any standards. And they were probably better off charging that extra sum on owners of food-stalls than the attendees themselves. Paying for food is not something we'd bitch about either. But dishing out half a thousand bucks for a FOSS gathering is arguably not the best way to spend money. I heard that the Postgres session was pretty good. I couldn 't get to go on Sat either, Although I really wanted to make it to Rasmus's talk. But I gave Hampi higher priority, and rightly so =)