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A couple of months ago, I met a brilliant scientist[1][2] who runs a space startup in India that specializes in brokering deals to launch non Indian space payload on ISRO's launch vehicles. Her company is called Earth2Orbit[3], although I am not sure whether this deal was brokered by them.

[1] http://travel.cnn.com/mumbai/susmita-mohanty-indias-own-moon...

[2] http://www.earth2orbit.com/people/people.html

[3] http://www.earth2orbit.com/index.html

Currently on Ubuntu running Unity. Was a long time KDE user running various distros with KDE environment. For someone who cannot afford a Mac and needs a -nix based system for day to day development activities, Ubuntu seems to provide the right set of features. I might have tried to use a Mac had it been cheaper, but now moving away from Linux would be worth some thought for me.

Well, all I can suggest you is to build something you're passionate about. Try looking at a small problem that you can solve with this tools. Someone I know did an awesome thing with Python, Raspberry Pi and few sensors. He created a simple setup that would bring down the curtains of his room once the intensity of sunlight outside went beyond a certain threshold. This allowed him to have an hour of extra sleep :)

A way to bet on a sport/game via Twitter would be an interesting thing to do. Couple of months ago, I actually looked for ways to do it around the Twitter's cards API but never managed to get beyond the initial thoughts of doing so.

Quite interesting to see that Google released it on Github rather than using Google code hosting like they've done in the past [1].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/iosched/ IO 2013 app.