ShriPhani is youngest member at 16yrs of age

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.

Shriphani Palakodety at 16yrs of age is the youngest member of TWINCLING Society.

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.

In his own words,
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)
which is pretty reputed, had disgusting computer programs and used propreitary software(illegally of course).

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.


A few community members have come forward to mentor Sriphani. All the best for your future endeavours.

TSM - Backup and Recovery - 11th August - 5pm

Friends, you will be delighted to read that the next TSM (TWINCLING Saturday Meet) is on

'Backup and Recovery' - an Open Source perspective.

Abstract
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."

Backups are useful primarily for two purposes:
1. to restore a computer to an operational state following a disaster (called disaster recovery)
2. to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted.

The talk scheduled to be held on Saturday, 11th August at 5pm will be delivered by Ms. Namita Iyer.

Ms. Namita Iyer 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.

She will be talking about various backup & recovery technologies and industry trends.
She will also highlight gaps and opportunities in this space and the value Open Source brings to the customer and enterprise.

Contents of the talk
. Overview of Backup, Recovery, Archiving concepts
. Opensource tools and utilities
. dump, restore, cpio, tar, dd
. Role of filesystem in backup, recovery
. PostgreSQL backup & recovery
. Bare metal restore
. Backup hardware techniques
. Live demo of scenarios

Venue
5th Floor Conf Room,
CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ashoka Janardhan Chambers
S.P. Road,
Begumpet
Hyderabad 500 016.

To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.
http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg

All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.

This is a FREE event.

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.

For assistance, please call the Society helpline :
+91 - 98482 37656
+91 - 99492 53753

Please feel free to forward this news update to your colleagues and friends.

regards
TWINCLING Society News & Editorial Team (TSNET)
http://www.twincling.org/

Hyderabad OpenSource Community

A group photograph of the vibrant Open Source community at Hyderabad AP India.