Archive for June, 2011.
Overview of Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Program in Pune
The Wikimedia Foundation has recently launched the India Education Program. The goal is to encourage professors in India to join a growing global community of educators who use Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their classes. Both teachers and students will receive guidance and support from Wikipedia experts as well as free educational materials developed [...]
“Building Tech Companies out of India” – with VC Naren Gupta co-founder of Nexus – 12 July
Dr. Naren Gupta, co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners, is visiting India and will be in Pune on July 12th. An event for Pune’s entrepreneurs has been arranged where Naren will chat with Abinash Tripathy about “Building Tech Companies out of India”, and this will be followed by networking. The event will be from 2pm to [...]
TiE Pune Event – My Story session with Namrata Sharma of Krayon Pictures
First, look at this movie trailer: If you don’t see a video above, click here to see it on YouTube. Impressed? Does not seem like something done in India, right? And yet, it was created here in Pune. The preview above is for a movie Delhi Safari, directed by famous Bollywood director Nikhil Advani (yes, [...]
ACM Pune Event: Finding ‘wishes’ from natural language text – 2 July
The Pune Chapter of ACM India invites you for a Tech Talk on “Wishful thinking – Finding ‘wishes’ from natural language text”, by Ramanand J, a researcher at Cognizant, on 2 July, Saturday, at 10am. The talk will be in CSI Pune Office, Prabhat House, Damle Path, Behind INDSEARCH, Law College Road. This is a [...]
Event Report: Product Management Challenges Unique to India
(This is a live-blog of the Indian Product Management Association (IPMA), Pune Chapter’s event on Product Management Challenges Unique to India by Vivek Tuljapurkar.) What is Product Management Different people define it differently. At the very least, a product manager is a person who is the “guardian angel” of the product. He gathers requirements from [...]
International Python Conference coming to Pune – Speakers Needed
The third edition of PyCon India, an international conference for all those interested in the Python programming language, is coming to Pune on 16th-18th September 2011. The organizers are looking for speakers for presentations, and trainers for the tutorial tracks of this conference. If you’ve used python in an interesting domain, if you’ve developed an [...]
IPMA Event: Product Management Challenges Unique to the Indian Environment
IPMA Pune, the Pune Chapter of the Indian Product Manager’s Association, presents a talk by Vivek Tuljapurkar, this Friday, from 5pm to 7pm, at BMC Software, Tower A, ICC Tech Park, SB Road. More details. Product Management Challenges Unique to the Indian Environment Indian software industry is experiencing explosive growth beyond its core offering in [...]
Free web-development courses by Ozran Academy, Pune
Ozran is a small web development company in Kondhwa, Pune. This European company founded by Andor Admiraal and Rajesh Shet has some very unique policies and a different outlook from most other IT firms. One of their unique initiatives is that they offer completely free web courses to IT, Arts and Maths freshers. They even [...]
Code + Beer + Enthusiasm = Pune Hackfest
(Last weekend, the Pune Rails Meetup community organized a weekend-long Hackfest to build a Citizen Empowerment App. Gautam Rege, one of the organizers of this hackfest wrote this event report about the hackfest, which first appeared on the Josh Software blog, and is being re-published here with permission.) Damn! Hackfests really work. At the latest [...]
Apple iCloud – Hype Cycle or Tipping Point for Cloud Computing?
(This article by Amit Naik, an architect at BMC Software, tries to separate out the facts from the hype regarding Apple’s recently announced iCloud offering for the benefit of readers) Any Apple announcement from new products/services to the Worldwide Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) is often hotly anticipated by the media and the Apple faithful alike. [...]