tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106551322024-02-08T03:26:06.331+05:30Twincling Technology Foundation, Hyderabad AP, IndiaTwincling Technology Foundation blogTwincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-33337938671380073072009-02-23T11:32:00.002+05:302009-02-23T11:37:38.457+05:30Read the Twincling blog<div style="text-align: center;">Folks, all the Twincling blogs and latest updates are at<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.twincling.org/blog">http://www.twincling.org/blog</a></span><br /><br />RSS feeds are available at<br /><a href="http://www.twincling.org/rss.xml"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">www.twincling.org/rss.xml</span></span></a><br /><br />Follow us on Twitter at<br /><a href="http://twitter.com/twincling"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >twitter.com/twincling</span></a><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-26024323603727594892008-11-22T20:53:00.000+05:302008-11-22T20:56:53.370+05:30Twincling Vijayawada<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/images/twincling-vijayawada.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 173px;" src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/images/twincling-vijayawada.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div> To better serve the interests of Open Source enthusiasts in Andhra region and create a focussed engineering team along the lines of the professional Twincling team at Hyderabad, we've started Twincling Vijayawada.<br /><br />The core team is lead by Sandip Tiwari (sandip AT twincling DOT org) and is expected to be supported by Bishal and Saroj. The first set of activities in terms of infrastructure and projects has been identified.<br /><br />If you are located in Vijayawada, Guntur and are passionate about Open Source vision and projects, please drop in a line with your contact details to Sandip Tiwari. We'd need many volunteers to work on the various initiatives and will appreciate all the help we can get.<br /><br />Please take a look at <a href="http://vijayawada.twincling.org/">http://vijayawada.twincling.org/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-85287210187084960142008-07-23T12:34:00.002+05:302009-03-09T16:15:51.566+05:30Open Source Days 2008 (Aug 2 - Aug 10)<img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/images/osd8.png" alt="Open" source="" days="" 2008="" /><br /><br />Open Source Days 2008 is a 9-day event scheduled to be held from Saturday, August 02, 2008 to Sunday, August 10, 2008.<br /><br />The theme is - 'Get Smart, Do Well and Have Fun' !<br /><br />The Objective of Open Source Days 2008 is to educate and empower participants with the knowledge and tools they need to succeed in todays fast changing IT world.<br /><br />You need solid technical skills to do well in your academic career, in your job to deliver results. Open Source software helps you acquire those skills and build your credentials.<br /><br />Open Source Days 2008 is a fun-filled yet technically focussed event which has a mix of technical presentations, interactive discussions with professionals and workshops. There will be many hands-on Workshops at multiple locations.<br /><br />There is also going to be a Quiz on 9th of August from 4:30pm - 5:30pm.<br /><br />Writing code, executing test cases, reviewing bugs, participating in Open Source community projects helps develop software programming and communication skills. As part of the Twincling mentorship programme, you get to learn about the various Open Source project opportunities and how you can participate. You'll also have a chance to discuss and know about mentors.<br /><br />Thanks to sponsors, You can win yourself Software CDs, T-shirts and other exciting prizes like Headphones, DVD Player !<br /><br />Workshop Focus Areas (Technical areas)<br /><br />. Linux/UNIX Administration<br /><br />. Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Setup and Administration<br /><br />. OpenSuSe 11 Linux Setup and Administration<br /><br />. FreeBSD 7 administration<br /><br />. OpenSolaris 10 administration<br /><br />. Package management (portage, ports, pkg, rpm)<br /><br />. Ruby scripting<br /><br />. Portable shell scripting<br /><br />. Regular Expressions<br /><br />. Linux systems programming<br /><br />. Linux network programming<br /><br />. Building Linux Clusters<br /><br />. OpenSolaris Systems Programming<br /><br />. Linux File system (ext2) concepts and programming<br /><br />. File system development<br /><br />. Linux TCP/IP stack internals<br /><br />. BSD TCP/IP stack internals<br /><br />. Network Security (SSL, IPSEC)<br /><br />. OpenSSL and PKI infrastructure essentials<br /><br />. Developing Anti-Virus software<br /><br />. Anti-spam software development and Bloom Filters<br /><br />. PostGreSQL database setup and administration<br /><br />. PostGreSQL C++ / Ruby / PHP database programming<br /><br />. LAMP setup, configuration and PHP 5 programming<br /><br />. WebServices and SOAP programming with PHP<br /><br />. Drupal module programming (for Drupal 6.2)<br /><br />. ISO C99 Programming and library development<br /><br />. OpenSSL API Programming using C<br /><br />. Firefox architecture and developing Firefox plugins<br /><br />. Firefox XPCOM C++ programming<br /><br />. C++ Programming (class based design, functors)<br /><br />. C++ and STL (Standard Template Library) Programming<br /><br />. C++ GUI Programming with QT 4.3<br /><br />. KDE 4.x plugins programming<br /><br />. Open Source Games design and programming (using KDE/Qt/C++)<br /><br />. OpenGL Programming (using KDE/Qt/C++)<br /><br />. Semantic Web Essentials, RDF, Ontology, DAML<br /><br />. XML essentials and programming (DTD, XMLSchemas, XSLT)<br /><br />. XML Security vocabularies (XMLDSig, XMLEnc, XMLKMS)<br /><br />. Core Java Programming<br /><br />. Enterprise Java Programming (Servlets)<br /><br />. Middle-tier Java Programming (EJB)<br /><br />. Software Design Patterns<br /><br />. Model Driven Architecture (MDA)<br /><br />. Middleware technologies - CORBA - C++ programming<br /><br />. AI Agent programming using Prolog<br /><br />. Developing Distributed Applications with Erlang and OTP<br /><br />. Real-time Streaming Multimedia using Helix Community server<br /><br />Workshop Focus Areas (Community)<br /><br />. Getting started in Open Source Projects<br /><br />. How to contribute to OpenSuSe Linux project<br /><br />. How to contribute to Gentoo Linux Project<br /><br />. KDE 4.x project and opportunities<br /><br />. Twincling projects<br /><br />. Open Source Games projects<br /><br /><br />All Workshop sessions have been modularized for 1-day, 2-day or 3-day sessions with focus on programming and follow up projects. To the maximum extent possible, the Society will be providing course material for the various workshop sessions online and in PDF format.<br /><br />How to register your college ?<br />Write a mail to info@twincling.org with your college name, contact number and the topic (please select upto two topics) you are interested in having a workshop on. The Organizing team will get in touch and finalize the event.<br /><br />Please note that the best three participants from each college will get T-shirts and also an offer of mentorship in the Twincling Open Source projects.<br /><br />So, Get Smart, Do Well and Have Fun' !<br /><br />Organizing Team<br /><br />Namita Iyer<br />Twincling Society.<br /><br />Leela Manoranjan<br />Cordys.<br /><br />Maruthi Vutla<br />AppLabs.<br /><br />Rajesh Sarangapani<br />Accenture.<br /><br />Sumit Upadhyay<br />Bank of America.<br /><br />Sampath Inturi<br />Open Source Geek.<br /><br />Ananth Pattabiraman<br />Open Source Geek, Music composer.<br /><br />Umamaheshwararao Lankoti<br />Azingo.<br /><br />Saurabh Bhatia<br />Safew Labs.<br /><br />Ragu Pattabiraman<br />Intergraph.<br /><br />Saifi Khan<br />Twincling.<br /><br />About Us<br />Twincling Society is India's "first" independent, professionally managed, not for profit, registered Open Source promotion and development organization. Incorporated in Hyderabad AP, India, the charter of the Society is - to promote and develop Open Source software.<br /><br />Twincling Technology Foundation is an initiative of Twincling Society with a single track focus on technical excellence and innovation. All the software developed by Twincling Society is released under Apache Software License 2.0 (ASL).<br /><br />Website<br />http://www.twincling.org/<br /><br />Helpline<br />+91-98484 59669<br />+91-98492 53753<br /><br />Contact Us<br />info@twincling.org<br /><br />Sponsors<br />Twincling Society would like to thank Avansec for sponsorship of the event. Avansec is a startup, focussed on developing green solutions for datacenters.<br /><br />Would you like to be sponsor for the event ?<br />We'd love to hear from you. Please write to info@twincling.org<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-90605714228485824692008-06-02T19:44:00.002+05:302008-11-22T21:29:18.593+05:30OSEF 2008 - bringing entrepreneurs together<p><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/osef2008.jpg" alt="Suren Poruri, Namita Iyer, Kavita Vemuri and Dr. Vikram Pudi" /></p><br /><p>It was an exhilirating experience working towards OSEF 2008 and Community 2008, and accomplishing the goals of promoting the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source</a> vision.<br /><br />Maruthi, Namita, Alolita, Nilayan, Uma and Saurabh had done an amazing amount of groundwork thinking through, involving the right set of people and executing it.</p><br /><p>Poorna Shashank, Sumanth Krishna, O V L Kiran Kumar, Ramesh Rajamani and E. Sivakrishna of Synovel, were supportive of the event and volunteered for assistance. A big thanks to all. You guys rock !<br /><br />The event started with Ms. Namita Iyer, President of the Society, talking about Open Source and how it helps boot strap product companies that can go on to build market leading products and nurture a community as well.</p><br /><p><img alt="Ms. Alolita Sharma, Director of Open Source Initiative (OSI)." src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/alolita1.jpg" /></p><br /><p>Ms. Alolita Sharma, Director of Open Source Initiative (OSI) and CEO, Technetra, started the session by asking the attendees a simple question - "<b>what are three words that come to our mind, when we think of Open Source</b>". The question really set a buzz among the members and make the people really interactive.</p><br /><p>For the first time it has been possible in the IT industry that corporates can access "fairly" and "openly" world class software developed by world class developers.<br /><br />Sharing between competitors provides them a level playing ground to compete in developing innovative applications over Open Source platform.<br /><br />According to Alolita, "The competition is in innovation and providing services. It is a key enabler of change for prosperity".</p><br /><p><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/ddganguly.jpg" alt="Mr D D Ganguly talks about the DimDim experience" /> </p><br /><p>The talk by Mr. D D Ganguly, founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.dimdim.com/">DimDim</a> was awesome and as candid as ever.</p><br /><p>He shared his startup experience and how he acquired seed capital and further funding from VCs. He talked about how to play the mating game with VCs in order for them to find your venture attractive enough to fund. VCs fund in millions, hence will never do seed funding. For seed funding, entrepreneurs should find someone who loves them and will fund them for being them. Last but not the least, he emphasized that the primary motive of entrepreneurs should be to create wealth for themselves and for their stake holders. The audience thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity for a heart-to-heart talk with a successful open source entrepreneur - who actually got big VCs to fund his venture.</p><br /><p>Mr. D D Ganguly from DimDim, Mr. Suren Poruri from Polaris, Mr. Pramod and Mr. Sivakumar from AppLabs, folks from CA, Mr. Sivakrishna from Synovel, budding entrepreneurs from Genpact, NIC, Satyam and many startup companies actively participated in the session. Mr. Saurabh Bhatia, of SafewLabs shared his journey as an entrepreneur with the audience.<br /><br /></p><br /><p><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-nbTmaJsSQs&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-nbTmaJsSQs&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></p><br /><p>Mr. Sivakrishna, CEO of Synovel, presented an overview of Spicebird at the event. In his words, Collaboration is much beyond e-mail communication – it's a process where individuals work together to achieve a common goal. Apart from having e-mail, instant messaging and group calendaring, an ideal collaboration system should make 'working together' possible – like creating a proposal, launching a new product, developing software, managing group knowledge and publishing websites even while working from different continents. Spicebird - the collaboration suite developed by us, creates a platform to do precisely that. In addition, Spicebird makes customization easy and ensures that the software can be adapted to your business collaboration needs.</p><br /><p><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/kavita.jpg" alt="Ms. Kavita Vemuri of Innovation Labs at IIIT, Hyderabad" /><br /><br /></p><br /><p>Ms. Kavita Vemuri of Innovation Lab, and Dr. Vikram Pudi of Open Source research at IIIT Hyderabad, were very supportive of the event from the word go. Kavita also teaches Product Management at IIIT to the students and is also involved with academia to industry transfer initiatives.<br /><br />In the future, we look forward to interacting very closely with students and faculty at IIIT, Hyderabad on Open Source activities and also conduct course on Open Source software licensing and legal issues. At Twincling Society, we invested a lot of time in working through Open Source licensing, Copyright and Trademark issues. This is critical as we are focussed on infrastructure software products development and want to create the largest ecosystem in the world ! more on that later.<br /><br />To keep the participants energised and vigorously participate in the discussions, lip smacking Samosas, Paneer Pakoda and delectable Kala Jam from Tiwari Sweets (one of Hyderabad's best sweet shops) was laid out for all the attendees to savor.</p><br /><p>We wanted to make sure that the best people, the best speakers, the best food and the best arrangments are made for such a special and first of its kind event ! At all Twincling events, the focus is on the quality of interaction, discussion and genuine interest.</p><br /><p>The best part is that Hyderabad has that kind of people with energy to engage in discussions.</p><br /><p><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/community2008.jpg" alt="Twincling Community 2008 at AppLabs GEC, Jubilee Hills checkpost, Hyderabad" /></p><br /><p>If that sounds incredible, then you should remember that OSEF 2008 came to an end at 4:15pm and Community 2008 started at Applabs GEC at 5pm. The GEC is located atleast 10 km from IIIT and a lot of the attendees of OSEF turned up for this event as well.</p><br /><p><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/arundrao.jpg" alt="Mr. Arun D Rao, VP HR at AppLabs, speaks on Community 2008." /><br /><br />Sreeram Kaviliga, AVP and Arun D. Rao, VP, my close friends at <a href="http://www.applabs.com/">AppLabs</a>, were the hosts for Community 2008 at 3XL Conference, AppLabs GEC. Arun, spoke on the occassion, sharing his vision about Open Source and how he sees close synergy between AppLabs goals and Twincling Society.</p><br /><p><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/sairajesh.jpg" alt="Rajesh Patil and Sai Chintala at Twincling Community 2008" /></p><br /><p><br /><br />Sai Chintala, VP, and Rajesh Patil, Architect, made a presentation on Open Source initiatives at AppLabs, TEMA product and also shared their experiences.<br /><br />Alolita who is a Director on the Board of Open Source Initiative, spoke on "How to build an Open Source Community".<br /><br />The importance of nurturing an Open Source community with the right elements and Community leads cannot be over emphasised. </p><br /><p><img src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/alolita2.jpg" alt="Building an Open Source Community" /></p><br /><p><br />At Twincling, we have cultivated a "user" community with an excellent mix of professionals and students in the last 4 years. The experience that we have gained is immensely valuable and positions us uniquely.<br /><br />Now, as we move to the GLOBAL orbit of developing world-class Open Source products (licensed under <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache License 2.0</a>), we need to mentor and cultivate a "developer" community.<br /><br />A "developer" community will create a better quality IT workforce in Hyderabad and provide Andhra Pradesh a competitive advantage.<br /><br />How are we going to do that ? Well, i'll talk about that in the next blog.<br /><br />Coming back after the event, we had a long day and all of us were physically tired and yet we had a 5-hour long Strategy meeting to chalk out the go-<b>GLOBAL</b> plan. </p><br /><p><img alt="DARE magazine from Cybermedia" src="http://www.twincling.org/twincling/people/daremag.jpg" /></p><br /><p>Special thanks to our dear friends Pratima and Ajay at Cybermedia who helped with the subscription form and May 2008 issues of the DARE magazine. It is an amazing magazine, 'DARE - Because entrepreneurs do'. Guys, we still have a few magazines available to give out to folks. So, if you are interested, please drop in a line to info@twincling.org and collect it at the next Saturday meet.<br /><br />Thats not all :-) To further discussions on entrepreneurship, we have WiTi (What I Think Is) list. Consider joining it at, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/witi<br /><br />See you all at, TWINCLING <b>Open Source Summit 2008</b> on <b>Sat</b>urday, <b>Dec</b>ember <b>13</b>, 2008.<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-56392451764379847282008-04-07T02:31:00.002+05:302008-04-07T02:34:01.203+05:30What makes TWINCLING Society unique ..<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/osc.jpg> <p> <a href=http://www.twincling.org/node/248>TWINCLING</a> Society is a <strong>"not-for-profit"</strong> society, incorporated in <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad%2C_Andhra_Pradesh>Hyderabad</a>, India, under the <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh>Andhra Pradesh</a> Societies Registration Act, 2001. (10th December, 2001, vide G.O.Ms.No. 742, Revenue (R&M), dt. 10.12.2001). <p> The <strong>charter</strong> of TWINCLING Society is to <strong>Promote and Develop Open Source software</strong>. <p> The Society conducts <a href=http://events.twincling.org/>Technical Events</a> on Open Source technologies on 2nd Saturday of every month. Technical Workshops are conducted to demonstrate live scenarios to organizations and community. As part of the student outreach programme, the Society volunteers have conducted numerous technical sessions at more than fifty colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Western Maharashtra. <p> <a href=http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=23830>Open Source RoundUp</a> is an annual Open Source event conducted by TWINCLING Society that brings together the Open Source community, to discuss trends, core issues, opportunities and challenges in the Open Source arena. This event is conducted in Hyderabad in the second week of December every year. <p> Open Source Entrepreneurship Forum (OSEF) is an initiative of the Society to assist entrepreneurs in building their Open Source businesses and create a platform that brings together experienced professionals, angel investors together and facilitates exchange of ideas and networking opportunities. <p> The Society is led by a strong professional and technically experienced <a href=http://www.twincling.org/node/253>Team</a> that takes pride in execution. The Society activities are managed by a seven member <strong>Board</strong> and governed by the Society bye-laws. Ms. Namita Iyer is the President, Mr. Satish Vellanki is the Vice President,Mr. Sumit Upadhyay is the General Secretary and Mr. Narender Rao is the Joint Secretary of the Society. The board executes ideas and strategies jointly evolved with the senior and experienced professionals of the <strong>Advisory Board</strong> and the <strong>Community Leads</strong>, who map them to community activities. <p> The Society operates a bank account at ICICI Bank, Nagarjuna Hills branch. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Society is held in December every year. The AGM consolidates the suggestions from peer international societies, legal counsel and auditors, to define the strategy and plan of action, for the next year. <p> The Society has more than 2,600 members with a significant reach out initiative in Andhra Pradesh. The society has assisted organizations and educational institutions in migrating to Open Source technologies. Society volunteers have received numerous appreciation shields and letters from the beneficiaries. <p> To support a vibrant Open Source community, the society activities are organized around Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that focus on <ul> <li><a href=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling>Open Source technologies</a> <li><a href=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/storage>Storage Technologies</a> <li><a href=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/witi>Entrepreneurship</a> <li><a href=http://groups.google.com/group/defhack>Ethical Hacking</a> </ul> <p> IRC Channel<br/> <a href=irc://irc.freenode.net/twincling>#twincling</a> on freenode.net <p> Contact Us<br/> To know more about our Open Source vision and participate in community activities, please write to <a href=mailto:info@twincling.org>info@twincling.org</a> or call the society helpline at +91-98492 53753<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-87021516348846824592008-03-23T09:52:00.000+05:302008-03-23T09:56:01.646+05:30Install Fest (Linux, BSD)An exciting '<span style="font-weight:bold;">Linux/BSD InstallFest</span>' has been planned for <span style="font-weight:bold;">Saturday, March 29 at 5pm</span>. The venue is Floor 5, Conf Room, CommVault Systems.<br /><br />A great way to get started with Linux/BSD is to actually try to install and configure it !<br /><br />You are welcome to bring along your laptops to try out the stuff. There will be some laptops and 2-3 systems available to try the distros live and also in VM environments.<br /><br />Some of the distros you get to play with are:<br />. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD<br />. Sabayon Linux<br />. Gentoo<br />. Ubuntu<br />. Mandriva<br />. Fedora<br />. BOSS Linux<br />. Knoppix<br /><br />Thanks to Saurabh Bhatia and Community Leads Uma and Sumanth, there will be multiple demos on installations, configuration and troubleshooting.<br /><br />There will also be discussion on 'ODF' or Open Document Format (thanks to Nikhil).<br /><br />All the geeks, entrepreneurs and techies are invited to join in and be part of the fun filled yet insightful evening that it is going to be on Saturday, March 29 at 5pm.<br /><br />Venue details are available at <a href="http://www.twincling.org/node/181">http://www.twincling.org/node/181</a><br /><br />All Open Source enthusiasts are cordially invited !<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-66988934176724826792008-03-04T13:23:00.000+05:302008-03-04T13:25:48.362+05:30Sumanth to conduct Ruby,RoR workshop on Sat, 8th March<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/people/t_sumanth.jpg><br /><br />Sumanth Krishna a Senior Developer at Google Engineering, Hyderabad will be conducting a Ruby, Ruby on Rails workshop on Saturday, 8th March from 5pm - 8pm.<br /><br />This is the best time to learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR) given the industry momentum towards building feature rich web applications leveraged on productivity.<br /><br />The focus of the workshop will be to help the participants to setup, configure the environment, design and develop the application and deploy the solution. So, if you got a laptop, you are welcome to bring in and plug in. Software will be available for download from a local repository accessible over 802.11a/b/g aka WiFi.<br /><br />In Sumanth's own words, "Always looking out or creating oppurtunities to spread whatever little bit I know and to learn all that I don't know. My interests include browsing, blogging(TechSavvy) guiding, teaching, most important learning new things".<br /><br />Sumanth started his career as PHP developer and part of many customization and implementations of php based products like moodle, mantis, wordpress, drupal, joomla, Expression Engine, sugar CRM. In his words, "Got kick with Web technologies, so my love with RoR still continuing".<br /><br />Sumath holds a Master's degree from Sri Sathya Sai Institue of Higher Learning and in the past has worked as Software Engineer at Compassites a product based company in Bangalore.<br /><br />Sumanth is a well known and active figure in TWINCLING Community and Events. You will see him leading community initiatives and playing a much bigger role in guiding the community towards excellence and growth.<br /><br />Sumanth blogs at <a href="http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/">http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />If you are still thinking of Ruby or RoR, this is one of the best opportunities to jump start. <br /><br />Snacks and Goodies will be available at the event. So mark your calendar today !<br /><br />All Open Source geeks and enthusiasts are welcome !<br /><br />Venue Information<br /><a href="http://www.twincling.org/node/181">http://www.twincling.org/node/181</a><br /><br />Helpline<br />+91-98482 37656<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-56483421366561577232008-01-16T14:44:00.000+05:302008-01-16T14:51:16.024+05:30Highlights, Photo gallery and future<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/twincling-open-source-roundup-2007.jpg><br /><br />Dear Friends,<br /><br />Thank you so much for making the Open Source RoundUp 2007 a wonderful and memorable success.<br /><br />Key highlights:<br />. A large number of professionals who interacted with the would be professionals<br />. An insightful product idea presented by Mr. Ananth, a musician as he discussed the requirements of his profession.<br />. An excellent community discussion by Mr. Sumanth Krishna on Ruby on Rails and Mr. Abhishek Sinha on Java/Spring framework.<br />. A pragmatic and straight talk by Mr. Yaser Ansari on Project management in Open Source<br />. A heart to heart discussion on key issues by Mr. Maruthi Sivakumar Vutla which discussing 'CEO/CTO perspective on Open Source'<br />. The party was real fun with two cakes being cut and lots of tasty snacks from Gokul chat.<br />. 180 T-shirts being distributed among the delegates.<br />. The total event expenditure was about INR 21,380.<br /><br />The Society would like to thank all the speakers - Mr. Mahesh, Mr. Manish, Mr. Rajesh, Mr. Naveen, Ms. Namita, Mr. Srinivas, Mr. Yaser, Mr. Maruthi, Mr. Srinivas Kavuri and Mr. Sumanth, for taking out their valuable time to interact with the community and share their experience.<br /><br />The Society also thanks the esteemed delegates for such enthusiastic participation and interaction.<br /><br />The photo gallery has been updated with the photos and the photos have been classified under various sections to provide a logical feel for the entire event. Please visit <a href=http://www.twincling.org/node/193>http://www.twincling.org/node/193</a><br /><br />Open Source RoundUp 2008 is scheduled to be held on Saturday, December 13. It will be a full day event at an auditorium. The key focus areas for the year 2008 event are available at <a href=http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/408410>http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/408410</a><br /><br />With the support of the community, we hope to be able to make this year's event a greater success.<br /><br />Thanks for your patience and understanding !<br /><br /><br />regards<br />News & Editorial Team (TSNET)<br /><br />Ps. we are sorry for the delay in updating the photographs.<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-75117529154551759282007-12-10T17:41:00.000+05:302007-12-10T17:43:15.949+05:30Open Source RoundUp 2007 - Linux For You (LFY) MagazineDear Friends,<br /><br />The Society in association with Linux For You (LFY) magazine has brought out a special subscription offer for the members and Open Source enthusiasts.<br /><br />Now, you can save upto 50% subscription on LFY magazine, when you subscribe using the form available during Open Source RoundUp 2007.<br /><br />Subscription amount details are available at<br /><a href="http://www.twincling.org/node/183">http://www.twincling.org/node/183</a><br /><br />Attendees can also pay by cheque. You need to add INR 50 for non-Delhi cheque.<br /><br />You can also win yourself past issue of the LFY magazine. How ? That would be a pleasant surprise.<br /><br />Linux For You (LFY) is a wonderful and informative magazine that focusses on Open Source software. Please visit the LFY website at <a href="http://www.lfymag.com/">http://www.lfymag.com/</a><br /><br />So friends, please spread the word around about LFY magazine among your friends and colleagues.<br /><br />thanks<br />News & Editorial Team.<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-51695832269486396962007-12-09T08:37:00.000+05:302007-12-09T08:40:35.776+05:30Open Source RoundUp 2007 - Career Networking, Resume drop box<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/twincling_osru2006.jpg><br /><br />Dear Friends,<br /><br />The community does well, when its members are also doing well !<br /><br />Todays student is tomorrow's engineer and todays engineer is tomorrow's decision maker.<br /><br />If the engineers and the decision makers are developing Open Source software or developing products that use Open Source software, then there are opportunities for growth and contribution for the members of the community.<br /><br />This thought is central to Career Networking forum and Resume drop box facility that has been organized for Open Source RoundUp 2007.<br /><br />Many of the speakers and companies have elicited interest in Open Source technology skills.<br /><br />Please see the focus areas: <br /> . Ajax (jquery, dojo)<br /> . Web 2.0<br /> . PHP<br /> . L.A.M.P.<br /> . C / Device drivers<br /> . C++ / STL<br /> . PERL / system automation<br /> . Ruby / Rails<br /> . JEE / JBoss / EJB<br /> . Servlets / Tomcat<br /> . MySQL<br /><br />In addition to domain/tech interest/expertise, good problem solving skills are required.<br /><br />This weekend may be a good time to review your resume and highlight the relevant points. Please feel free to submit a copy of your resume with focus area mentioned on the top, to the Career Forum coordinator.<br /><br />For any clarfications please call helpline on +91-98482 37656 or +91-98492 53753<br /><br />Registration is FREE of charge, and so make sure that you register for the conference today at <a href="http://www.twincling.org">http://www.twincling.org</a><br /><br />All the best.<br /><br />regards<br />News & Editorial Team.<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-56819128733478596282007-12-06T00:08:00.000+05:302007-12-06T00:10:10.259+05:30Open Source RoundUp 2007<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/osru/red.gif><a href= http://www.twincling.org/osru><strong>REGISTRATION OPEN</strong></a><br /><br />The Annual Open Source event for the Open Source community in Hyderabad.<br />Sat, <strong>15 Dec @ 4:30pm</strong> at <a href=http://www.twincling.org/node/181>Floor 5 Hall</a><br /><br />Open Source RoundUp 2007 is the event that brings together professionals and practitioners with focus on Open Source in projects, product development, project management, test platforms, embedded systems, kernel engineering, bio sciences and social networking.<br /><br />Discussing trends, core issues in Open Source, what are the opportunities and the challenges, will be professionals from organizations like Satyam, Accenture, Tanla, Nokia, AppLabs, CDAC, Pramati, Ocimum Biosolutions and CommVault.<br /><br />The technical event includes year end party, goodies for attendees and career networking forum with Resume drop box, to facilitate professionals and students seeking career opportunities in specific technologies.<br /><br /><img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/osru/red.gif><a href= http://www.twincling.org/osru><strong>REGISTRATION OPEN</strong></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-82154512644627308852007-11-11T10:21:00.000+05:302007-11-11T10:25:37.275+05:30Fedora 8 DVD (i386) available<img src=http://fedoraproject.org/static/images/banners/f8-banner-animation.gif><br /><br />Fedora 8 DVD (3.4 GiB, i386) is now available for Society members and Open Source enthusiasts.<br /><br />Notable feature highlights are:<br /> Linux kernel 2.6.23<br /> GCC 4.1.2<br /> glibc-2.6.90-14<br /> X.org 7.2 X server<br /> Eclipse SDK version 3.3.0<br /> KDE 4 Development Platform<br /> Firefox 2.0<br /> Thunderbird 2.0<br /> Liberation Fonts<br /> KDE 3.5.8<br /> 3D desktop support with Compiz<br /> Gnome 2.20<br /><br />Complete release notes are available at<br />http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/<br /><br />Fedora 8 is a 1-DVD set.<br />Working professionals are required to exchange with 2 blank DVDs.<br />Students are required to exchange with 1 blank DVD.<br /><br />Please place a request for your DVD by writing to info@twincling.org or call up +91-98482 37656<br /><br />Please collect the F8-DVD by exchanging with your blank DVDs on Sat, 17th November between 4:30pm - 8pm at the TSM venue.<br /><br />regards<br />News & Editorial Team (TSNET)<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-38127513193210853072007-10-31T10:40:00.000+05:302007-10-31T10:50:59.450+05:30Ruby on Rails - Sat, 17th November at 5pm<p><img src="http://www.rubyonrails.org/images/rails.png" /> </p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ruby on Rails</span> is an Open Source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.</p><p>You will be glad to know that the next TSM is on "Ruby, <b>Ruby on Rails</b>".</p><p> The TSM is scheduled to be held on <b>Sat, 17th November at 5pm</b> on 5th Floor, Conf Room, CommVault Systems, S.P. Road, Begumpet.<br /><br />Mr. A. P. Rajshekhar will be the speaker for this talk.<br /><br />Mr. Rajshekhar will talk in detail about:<br />. Brief overview of Ruby language<br />. Ruby on Rails Framework architecture<br />. M.V.C. Design Pattern<br />. Scaffolding<br />. O-R (object-relational) mapping<br />. Packages - Active Record Action Pack, Active Support, Action Mailer and Action Web Service.<br />. JavaScript and Ajax interaction support<br />. Code Examples<br />. Live Demos<br /><br />Date: Sat, 17th November, 2007.<br /><br />Time: 5pm - 7:45pm.<br /><br />Venue<br />5th Floor Conf Room,<br />CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.<br />Ashoka Janardhan Chambers<br />S.P. Road,<br />Begumpet<br />Hyderabad 500 016.<br /><br />To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.<br /><a title="http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg" mce_href="http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg" href="http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg">http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg</a><br /><br />All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.<br /><br />This is a FREE event.<br /><br />You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number of visitors.<br /><br />For assistance, please call the Society helpline :<br />+91 - 98482 37656<br />+91 - 99492 53753<br /><br />Please feel free to forward this post to your colleagues and friends.<br /><br />regards<br />News & Editorial Team (TSNET)<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-53657242475809735832007-10-29T16:47:00.000+05:302007-10-29T18:05:39.651+05:30Firefox hackathon and party photosa big <span style="font-size:180%;">thank you</span> to all the participants of the Firefox Hackathon.<br /><br />The spirit of Open Source was seen with the various members sharing their knowledge with the rest of the community. Trying out code, show casing examples and lots of interactive discussion were the finest point of the day.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWC1sukUTfiSUUksxS2fWS4nACFKToDPSEedpuz6gvmoOSCBZGSiMCn1mjuQO2Ii_M9ANE65DCrd8nIfDx0Pdn-J-HttO_dlnbVUx1HyS0lIWNfg7gJy2mhNrj7wwd9BJK0lokVQ/s1600-h/dsc00020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWC1sukUTfiSUUksxS2fWS4nACFKToDPSEedpuz6gvmoOSCBZGSiMCn1mjuQO2Ii_M9ANE65DCrd8nIfDx0Pdn-J-HttO_dlnbVUx1HyS0lIWNfg7gJy2mhNrj7wwd9BJK0lokVQ/s320/dsc00020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126734169274493506" border="0" /></a><br />Special thanks to P. Janaki Ram for show casing the PracticeManagement system that he has developed.<br /><br />Special thanks to Appaji Rao, whose team won $150 USD for the best Firefox plugin of the month award.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your knowledge and furthering the cause of Open Source.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSiickMt_x80fHjyZBZOL7LOWn_edrulAfWZP90oHEtV5j1pF6KIF2_k7Y9LJvWcMkmwg1hXzdVrhpvue8ymTSc5lq2sOT5XeLczankvtPoom_M4HSkRVLlRblpcub2gfvqRuwQ/s1600-h/ffparty.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSiickMt_x80fHjyZBZOL7LOWn_edrulAfWZP90oHEtV5j1pF6KIF2_k7Y9LJvWcMkmwg1hXzdVrhpvue8ymTSc5lq2sOT5XeLczankvtPoom_M4HSkRVLlRblpcub2gfvqRuwQ/s400/ffparty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126735758412393042" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We also had a <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Geek party</span></span> after the hackathon to treat ourselves to some tasty snacks and chocolate pastries. Soft drinks were also available to boost the Zing factor.<br /><br />FREE T-shirts were given to all the attendees of the event.<br /><br />Look forward the participation of more Hyderabadi's in the future Hackathon events.<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-55316930101435126192007-10-16T17:18:00.000+05:302007-10-16T17:21:57.020+05:30Firefox 3 Hackathon - Slashdot Party - Sat,. 27th Oct, 5pm - 9pm<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/graphics/firefox.jpg><br /><br />Some Geeky News here for firefox lovers and Open Source enthusiasts !<br /><br /><strong>Firefox 3 Hackathon</strong> on <em>Saturday, 27th October at 5pm</em><br /><br />The Hackathon event will involve hacking Firefox code and creating some useful modules and code.<br /><br />We will try to learn<br /> . about Gecko layout engine<br /> . programming with component technologies like XPCOM, XPInstall.<br /> . how to write firefox plugins<br /> . how to write firefox extensions<br /><br />So get in your laptops and plugin for the event.<br /><br />Wireless access point will be provided with a DHCP server running on 192.168.1.x/24 subnet.<br /><br />We will also be having a party after the Hackathon - 'Slashdot 10yr anniversary party'.<br /><br /><strong>Slashdot party registration is required, if you want ThinkGeek t-Shirts from Slashdot.</strong><br /><br />Step1:<br /> Create a new account on slashdot<br /> <a href="http://slashdot.org/login.pl?op=newuserform">http://slashdot.org/login.pl?op=newuserform</a><br /><br />Step2:<br /> You will be mailed your password on email address you used for registration.<br /> Please confirm your account and login in Slashdot.org<br /> (you can directly click on the link in the mail)<br /><br />Step3: (optional)<br /> if you are not logged in, please click this link<br /> <a href="http://slashdot.org/login.pl">http://slashdot.org/login.pl</a><br /><br />Step4:<br /> Visit this link <br /> <a href="http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl">http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl</a><br /><br /> You will see a drop-down list (used to search for party).<br /> Select "OTHER" (it is the last entry in the drop down)<br /><br />Step5:<br /> You will see a list of many parties on the page.<br /> Just search for 'twincling'<br /> Select/Click the (*) radio button before the party description.<br /> Next go to the end of the page (scroll down)<br /> Click the button [Attend Party]<br /><br /> The response page will come up and say 'Party Attendance saved'.<br /><br />Step6: (optional)<br /> To verify that you name has been entered, visit this URL<br /> <a href="http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=761">http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=761</a><br /><br /> Verify that your name is there among the list of attendees.<br /> That's it. You're in !<br /><br />Please note that we will be giving out TWINCLING T-Shirts anyway to the Hackathon participants !<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-64773375018364712282007-10-11T08:40:00.000+05:302007-10-11T08:43:33.881+05:30Special Interest Groups (SIGs)The Board of Directors in their quest to bring the best of Open Source to the members have aligned the Society activities around the (Special Interest Group or SIG model.<br /><br />The S.I.G. model is the corner stone of focussed activities in societies like the I.E.E.E. (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and A.C.M. (Association of Computing Machinery).<br /><br />The three SIGs identified are :<br />. <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling">OpenSource</a><br />. <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/storage">Storage</a><br />. <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/witi">OpenSource and Entrepreneurship</a><br /><br />Each SIG will have a chair(person), mailing list and volunteer leads. In this quarter, the chair for each SIG will be nominated and volunteer leads will be identified. The mailing lists have been piloted and significant interest has been seen.<br /><br />Please visit SIGs webpage for more details.<br /><a href="http://sigs.twincling.org/">http://sigs.twincling.org/</a><br /><br />Please join the SIGs that interest you.<br /><br />regards<br />News & Editorial Team (TSNET)<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-40860383050599538562007-10-10T11:11:00.000+05:302007-10-10T11:29:23.902+05:30Slashdot Party in Hyderabad on 27th October<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrBqFxHZsZsqe32VWIgfy3uTMA35PL8aPwE1m7YJ89w-Jq21qtoTaNHNK5C2rNM7C8lk_T_r5hzE6csn10F8olzFV9ZbEdE4VwBGd7MsNIvylyYsybqQ_DbddsYNkCwZKn_8mhQ/s1600-h/slashdot-party.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrBqFxHZsZsqe32VWIgfy3uTMA35PL8aPwE1m7YJ89w-Jq21qtoTaNHNK5C2rNM7C8lk_T_r5hzE6csn10F8olzFV9ZbEdE4VwBGd7MsNIvylyYsybqQ_DbddsYNkCwZKn_8mhQ/s400/slashdot-party.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119583581462702962" /></a><br /><br />Dear Friends<br /><br />TWINCLING Society is hosting the "<span style="font-weight:bold;">SLASHDOT PARTY</span>" on Saturday, 27th October at 5pm.<br /><br />Slashdot.org is a site visited by many geeks and has about 5.5 million users per month.<br />It encourages its readers to read the articles linked to in the summary. Most of the articles are of technical nature and the discussions are very popular among geeks.<br /><br />We are also planning to have '<span style="font-weight:bold;">Firefox Hackathon</span>' on the same day to add to your Geek mood !<br /><br />Here are the important details:<br /><br />Title : Slashdot Party and Firefox Hackathon<br /><br />Date : <span style="font-weight:bold;">Saturday, 27th October, 2007</span><br /><br />Time : 5pm - 7pm (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Hackathon</span>), 7pm - 9pm (<span style="font-weight:bold;">Party</span>)<br /><br />Venue : 5th Floor, Conf Room, CommVault Systems, Ashok Janardhan Chambers, Begumpet.<br /><br />For venue photograph and other details, please visit<br /><a href="http://events.twincling.org/">http://events.twincling.org/</a><br /><br />Hope to see all the Geeks out there !<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-6075321652255393492007-10-10T08:11:00.000+05:302007-10-10T08:16:07.086+05:30daily POSIXHere's something new for TWINCLING Community members and Linux/BSD/UNIX programming enthusiasts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">POSIX</span> is Portable Operating System Interface (for UNIX) or "portable" API for Linux/BSD/UNIX.<br /><br />More formally, POSIX is the collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define the application programming interface (API) for software compatible with variants of the Unix operating system.<br /><br />Almost all the languages on Linux/BSD/UNIX ie. C, C++, PHP, PERL, Ruby, Python, Shell provide POSIX APIs or functions or commands for programming. This ensures that the semantics of the function is the same as only the language binding is different.<br /><br />To help the community get up to speed on understanding on POSIX, Society volunteers are starting a 'daily POSIX' posting. This will include the POSIX concept, function, programming examples and lots of discussion.<br /><br />daily POSIX starts on Monday, 15th October and we run it till we have gone through the entire POSIX.<br /><br />Stay tuned.<br /><br /><br />thanks & regards<br />News and Editorial Team.<br />http://www.twincling.org/<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-21662822404435395292007-10-04T18:25:00.000+05:302007-10-04T18:28:21.313+05:30TSM - 13th October - AJAX and Web 2.0 programming paradigmDear Friends,<br /><br />You will be glad to know that the next TSM is on<br />"<span style="font-weight:bold;">AJAX and Web 2.0 programming paradigm</span>"<br /><br />The TSM is scheduled to be held on Sat, 13th October at 5pm at 5th Floor, Conf Room, CommVault Systems.(Please see complete details below).<br /><br />Mr. Rajshekhar Sheela, will be the speaker for this talk.<br /><br />About the speaker<br />The speaker, Mr. Rajshekhar Sheela is currently working as a Team Lead (R&D) at GetSet Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad and is closely associated with building solutions in the Hospitality and Tourism domain.<br /><br />He is interested in the architectural aspects of AJAX and Web 2.0 applications. On the middle-tier side, Mr. Rajshekhar Sheela, has focussed on Java/J2EE based solutions.<br /><br />Mr. Rajshekhar will talk in detail about the following:<br />. AJAX Architecture<br />. Core technologies (XML, JavaScript, DOM, XMLHttp)<br />. AJAX programming solutions<br />. Designing AJAX based solutions<br /><br />Date: Sat, <span style="font-weight:bold;">13th Oct</span>ober, 2007.<br /><br />Time: <span style="font-weight:bold;">5pm - 7:30pm</span>.<br /><br />Venue<br />5th Floor Conf Room,<br />CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.<br />Ashoka Janardhan Chambers<br />S.P. Road,<br />Begumpet<br />Hyderabad 500 016.<br /><br />To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.<br />http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg<br /><br />All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.<br /><br />This is a FREE event.<br /><br />You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number of visitors.<br /><br />For assistance, please call the Society helpline :<br />+91 - 98482 37656<br />+91 - 99492 53753<br /><br />Please feel free to forward this link to your colleagues and friends.<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-65441886245417738332007-10-01T12:00:00.000+05:302007-10-01T12:02:59.074+05:30Mpower project launched<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/mpower/mpower.gif><br /><br />Feature rich Open Source content management platforms like <a href=http://www.drupal.org>Drupal</a> power thousands of websites. The community of users visiting and accessing the services of these websites is increasingly found to be <strong>mobile phone or PDA</strong> users.<br /><br />We at TWINCLING Society, see a great opportunity to provide value innovation to mobile users and existing drupal powered websites, by providing an Open Source 'mobile enabler' solution.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Mpower</span> is an Open Source project to <strong>mobile enable</strong> your website and provide natural mobile user experience.<br /><br />To know about the product value proposition, pleaese download the presentation <a href=http://www.twincling.org/products/mpower/mpower.pdf>slides</a>.<br /><br />Please visit the Mpower engineering website at <a href=http://www.twincling.org/node/121>http://www.twincling.org/node/121</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-44088379313943686022007-09-10T12:55:00.000+05:302007-09-10T12:57:58.816+05:30Reaching out to 350 colleges in Andhra Pradesh<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/t_reachout.jpg><br /><br />With single track pursuit of promoting and developing Open Source software, TWINCLING Society today reaches out to more than 350 colleges in Andhra Pradesh.<br /><br />Member volunteers have furthered the vision of OpenSource by walking the talk and visited colleges all over Andhra Pradesh and also parts of Maharashtra. The response has been amazing and we have been humbled by the affection and support of the students at various colleges.<br /><br />From sophisticated air-conditioned seminar halls at 22 degree celsius to thatched roof class room in sweltering 46 degree celsius we have done it all ! Our brochures, cards, flyers, Open Source media CD dispatch continue to support the face 2 face interaction that we have with students and individuals.<br /><br />Please visit the Photo Gallery to see the background work that goes in to make sure that your college receives continues updates from TWINCLING Society, Hyderabad AP.<br /><br />Link to <a href="http://www.twincling.org/node/118">Photo gallery</a><br /><br />A big thank you to all the students, professionals, faculties, support staff and individuals from various walks of live who have helped us take the vision ahead !<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-25806096389484873732007-08-30T19:56:00.000+05:302007-08-30T19:59:56.314+05:30Virtual Reality, OpenGL and SDL based 3D programming - Sat, 8th Sep at 5pm<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/people/p_apr.jpg><br />An eminent speaker, <strong>Mr. A. P. Rajshekhar</strong>, will be delivering this interesting and informative talk on Virtual Reality, OpenGL and SDL based 3D programming.<br /><br /><strong>Virtual Reality</strong> is a technology which allows a user to interact in a computer simulated environment, be it real or imagined one. <br /><br />To realize the rich graphics environment for the user, it is necessary to have toolkits and libraries. <br /><br /><strong>Simple DirectMedia Layer</strong> (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia, OpenSource library written in C that creates an abstraction over various platforms' graphics, sound and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or multimedia application.<br /><br /><strong>Open Graphics Library</strong> (OpenGL) is a standard specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics.<br /><br />Mr. A.P.Rajshekhar is currently a Project Engineer (Tech Lead for Web development team) with C-DAC, Hyderabad.<br /><br />Mr. Rajshekhar holds Bachelors Degree in Computer Science(Honors) and Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing(PGDC) from C-DAC.<br /><br />While pursuing Bachelors Degree, he worked as a Developer with Arushi, a NGO in Bhopal for 2 years. Here he was involved in development of PC based Synthesizer using Windows API. Presently, he is working in multi-lingual interface enabled Learning Management System based on J2EE. His other endeavors at C-DAC include low-cost SCM solution for SME and development of Quality Assurance Framework for e-learning Systems.<br /><br />He is a regular contributor to DevShed portals on topics ranging from Game programming to web based application development. His areas of interest are 3D programming and Virtual Reality systems.<br /><br />Mr. A. P. Rajshekhar will talk in detail about the following:<br />. Virtual Reality<br />. 3D Programming concepts<br />. Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)<br />. Open Graphics Library (OpenGL)<br />. Programming Illustrations & Scenarios<br /><br /><strong>Date</strong>: Sat, 8th September, 2007.<br /><br /><strong>Time</strong>: 5pm - 7:30pm.<br /><br /><strong>Venue</strong><br />5th Floor Conf Room,<br />CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.<br />Ashoka Janardhan Chambers<br />S.P. Road,<br />Begumpet<br />Hyderabad 500 016.<br /><br />To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.<br />http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg<br /><br />All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on<br />informative session and benefit from it.<br /><br />This is a FREE event.<br /><br />You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to<br />handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly<br />cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number<br />of visitors.<br /><br />For assistance, please call the Society helpline :<br />+91 - 98482 37656<br />+91 - 99492 53753<br /><br />Please feel free to forward this link to your colleagues and friends.<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-87860753012187147052007-08-14T16:06:00.000+05:302007-08-14T16:09:43.864+05:30Backup & Recovery TSM update<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/osc2.jpg><br /><br />Ms. <a href=http://namita.avansec.com/>Namita Iyer</a>, delivered an awesome talk on 'Backup & Recovery' - an Open Source perspective to a highly participative and thrilled audience. <br /><br />Namita Iyer discussed about the basic need of a backup. She talked about full backups, differential and incremental backups, backup of backup - auxillary copies - inline aux copies, online backup (backup as users are accessing) - quiescing and snapshots, backup of different applications - mail, database, backup complete disks - block level backup, backup to different media - tape, optical, reusing backup media - pruning unwanted backups, restores: search backed up data - indexes - and selectively restore, different backup configurations - backup to NAS, SAN, Lan-free, Server-free (proxy).<br /><br />Namita also discussed about Recovery points, RPOs and RTOs - Replication and continuous replication (app aware) with recovery points, add-on features of backup - compression, encryption<br /><br />A very important highlight of the discussion was, Archival - how is it different from backup ?.ILM solutions for file and mail.<br /><br />Next up in discussion was features offered and issues with Commercial backup vendors - CV, Veritas, CA brightstor, EMC Networker (legato).<br /><br />Namita Iyer talked at length about OpenSource backup product Amanda - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver.<br /><br />Manoj, Chaitanya, Vimal and Mahen came up with real life observations in the context of recovery. Vimal delivered an impromptu explanation of the MD5 vulnerability and how it came to light.<br /><br />Thanks to everybody who made the TSM such a memorable event.<br /><br />Folks, please visit the Backup & Recovery TSM photogallery at <br />http://www.twincling.org/node/103<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-66431650613647701832007-08-14T16:04:00.000+05:302007-08-14T16:09:32.151+05:30ShriPhani is youngest member at 16yrs of age<img src=http://www.twincling.org/images/people/p_sriphani.jpg><br /><br />The recent community meet held on Sat, 11th August was unique as we had the youngest member, Sri Phani join TWINCLING Society at 16 years of age. Sri Phani is a very enthusiastic Class XII student of H.P.S. who is currently exploring Python and wants to consult on Linux System Administration opportunities.<br /><br />Shriphani Palakodety at 16yrs of age is the youngest member of TWINCLING Society.<br /><br />At an age when most people have fun and play with cool gizmos, Sriphani has created a niche for himself by focussing exclusively on Linux and Python. He wants to do something really creative.<br /><br />In his own words,<em><br />I am a guy who is still studying in class 12. I want to embark on a project that sets up a network as soon as boxes are plugged together. I wish to embark on this as the school where I studied till class 10 (HPS R)<br />which is pretty reputed, had disgusting computer programs and used propreitary software(illegally of course). <br /><br />A free utility that will do the same would be an ideal gift to my school. I would like to do this in python. I need advice on how to embark on something like this and what i need to learn. I do not care about speed with which objective is achieved and so on. I want to enjoy the journey and reach this goal.<br /></em><br /><br />A few community members have come forward to mentor Sriphani. All the best for your future endeavours.<div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/</div>Twincling Technology Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768507222222666676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10655132.post-60391999999136868842007-07-31T21:03:00.000+05:302007-07-31T21:10:26.121+05:30TSM - Backup and Recovery - 11th August - 5pmFriends, you will be delighted to read that the next TSM (TWINCLING Saturday Meet) is on<br /><br />'<span style="font-weight:bold;">Backup and Recovery</span>' - an Open Source perspective.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Abstract<br /></span>Backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. These additional copies are typically called "backups." <br /><br />Backups are useful primarily for two purposes: <br /> 1. to restore a computer to an operational state following a disaster (called disaster recovery) <br /> 2. to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted.<br /><br />The talk scheduled to be held on Saturday, <span style="font-weight:bold;">11th August at 5pm</span> will be delivered by Ms. Namita Iyer.<br /><br />Ms. <a href="http://namita.avansec.com/">Namita Iyer</a> is a storage industry veteran with 9+ years experience, who has been involved in storage product development at Brocade, Veritas and CommVault among other companies.<br /><br />She will be talking about various backup & recovery technologies and industry trends.<br />She will also highlight gaps and opportunities in this space and the value Open Source brings to the customer and enterprise.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Contents</span> of the talk<br /> . Overview of Backup, Recovery, Archiving concepts<br /> . Opensource tools and utilities<br /> . dump, restore, cpio, tar, dd<br /> . Role of filesystem in backup, recovery<br /> . PostgreSQL backup & recovery<br /> . Bare metal restore<br /> . Backup hardware techniques<br /> . Live demo of scenarios<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Venue</span><br />5th Floor Conf Room,<br />CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.<br />Ashoka Janardhan Chambers<br />S.P. Road,<br />Begumpet<br />Hyderabad 500 016.<br /><br />To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.<br />http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg<br /><br />All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.<br /><br />This is a FREE event.<br /><br />You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number of visitors.<br /><br />For <span style="font-weight:bold;">assistance</span>, please call the Society helpline :<br />+91 - 98482 37656<br />+91 - 99492 53753<br /><br />Please feel free to forward this news update to your colleagues and friends.<br /><br />regards<br />TWINCLING Society News & Editorial Team (TSNET)<br /><a href="http://www.twincling.org/">http://www.twincling.org/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">TWINCLING Society info@twincling.org
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