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

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.