What makes TWINCLING Society unique ..

TWINCLING Society is a "not-for-profit" society, incorporated in Hyderabad, India, under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001. (10th December, 2001, vide G.O.Ms.No. 742, Revenue (R&M), dt. 10.12.2001).

The charter of TWINCLING Society is to Promote and Develop Open Source software.

The Society conducts Technical Events 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.

Open Source RoundUp 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.

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.

The Society is led by a strong professional and technically experienced Team that takes pride in execution. The Society activities are managed by a seven member Board 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 Advisory Board and the Community Leads, who map them to community activities.

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.

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.

To support a vibrant Open Source community, the society activities are organized around Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that focus on

• Open Source technologies
• Storage Technologies
• Entrepreneurship
• Ethical Hacking

IRC Channel
#twincling on freenode.net

Contact Us
To know more about our Open Source vision and participate in community activities, please write to info@twincling.org or call the society helpline at +91-98492 53753

Install Fest (Linux, BSD)

An exciting 'Linux/BSD InstallFest' has been planned for Saturday, March 29 at 5pm. The venue is Floor 5, Conf Room, CommVault Systems.

A great way to get started with Linux/BSD is to actually try to install and configure it !

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.

Some of the distros you get to play with are:
. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
. Sabayon Linux
. Gentoo
. Ubuntu
. Mandriva
. Fedora
. BOSS Linux
. Knoppix

Thanks to Saurabh Bhatia and Community Leads Uma and Sumanth, there will be multiple demos on installations, configuration and troubleshooting.

There will also be discussion on 'ODF' or Open Document Format (thanks to Nikhil).

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.

Venue details are available at http://www.twincling.org/node/181

All Open Source enthusiasts are cordially invited !

Sumanth to conduct Ruby,RoR workshop on Sat, 8th March

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.

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.

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.

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".

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".

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.

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.

Sumanth blogs at http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com/

If you are still thinking of Ruby or RoR, this is one of the best opportunities to jump start.

Snacks and Goodies will be available at the event. So mark your calendar today !

All Open Source geeks and enthusiasts are welcome !

Venue Information
http://www.twincling.org/node/181

Helpline
+91-98482 37656