Season's Greetings and Happy New Year 2006

TWINCLING Society wishes all its 508 members
Season's Greetings and a very Happy and prosperous New Year 2006.

The Society will kick off many new activities and Open Source Product development initiatives in the new year 2006.


regards
TWINCLING Executive Team.

Open Source Round Up 2005

The Society is organizing "OpenSource RoundUp 2005" on Saturday, 10th December, 2005 at 5pm.

The Round Up brings a panel of speakers together who present a pragmatic view of technologies and Industry trends that characterized the Year 2005. What makes this event unique is that all the speakers use Open Source technologies in their day to day work.

This is a great opportunity to
- hear about current Industry situation (technologies, opportunities)
- learn about key OpenSource technologies
- network with working professionals
- know about the upcoming projects
- catchup on hiring trends

The timings are 5:00pm - 7:30pm

The Venue is -

2nd Floor, Euclid India Pvt Ltd
Ashoka Janardhana Chambers
Above Nalli Silks
S.P. Road
Begumpet, Hyderabad

Helpline
94410 71232

Open Standards and Open Source

The terms 'Open Standards' and 'Open Source' are regularly used in press and in conversation.

Unfortunately, on many occassions (esp conferences) the terms are miscontrued and lead to certain amount of confusion.

"Open Standard" refers to a uniform technical specification. Offcourse this refers to the process of development of the spcification as well.

TCP/IP, VoIP, SIP, XHTML, XML are all Open Standards, created jointly by various commercial, governmant and not-for-profit organizations under standards bodies like IETF, W3C etc.

However, Open Standards can have both proprietary and Open Source implementations.

"Open Source" refers to a software development and licensing model.

FreeBSD, FireFox (Mozilla), Apache web server, MySQL database server are some of the examples of Open Source software.