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

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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

Highlights, Photo gallery and future

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for making the Open Source RoundUp 2007 a wonderful and memorable success.

Key highlights:
. A large number of professionals who interacted with the would be professionals
. An insightful product idea presented by Mr. Ananth, a musician as he discussed the requirements of his profession.
. An excellent community discussion by Mr. Sumanth Krishna on Ruby on Rails and Mr. Abhishek Sinha on Java/Spring framework.
. A pragmatic and straight talk by Mr. Yaser Ansari on Project management in Open Source
. A heart to heart discussion on key issues by Mr. Maruthi Sivakumar Vutla which discussing 'CEO/CTO perspective on Open Source'
. The party was real fun with two cakes being cut and lots of tasty snacks from Gokul chat.
. 180 T-shirts being distributed among the delegates.
. The total event expenditure was about INR 21,380.

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.

The Society also thanks the esteemed delegates for such enthusiastic participation and interaction.

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 http://www.twincling.org/node/193

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 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/408410

With the support of the community, we hope to be able to make this year's event a greater success.

Thanks for your patience and understanding !


regards
News & Editorial Team (TSNET)

Ps. we are sorry for the delay in updating the photographs.

Open Source RoundUp 2007

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The Annual Open Source event for the Open Source community in Hyderabad.
Sat, 15 Dec @ 4:30pm at Floor 5 Hall

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.

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.

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.

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