PuneTech

A guest post by Mugdha Vairagade, a Senior Tech Writer, gives an overview of what Technical Writing as a career means, what skills are necessary, and how to go about preparing for a job in this area.

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Over the past 2 years, PuneTech has covered a breadth of technology related topics, with a concentration on Information Technology & Software. The strategic goal is to cover multiple technology segments and discuss innovative & exciting developments in these areas; specifically in Pune’s context.
It was with this objective that [...]

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(Monday, 8th March, is women’s day. PuneTech has decided to use that excuse to start a new series of articles highlighting inspiring stories about Pune’s women. For this purpose, we are roping in women techies who are active in the Pune tech community, and asking them to interview women who have great career stories and [...]

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Update: At this meeting (which is now over), it was decided to form various sub-committees that will work on different aspects of TEDxPune. If you’re interested,

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(Last weekend, Pune played host to Arun Ranganathan, Technology Evangelist for the Mozilla Foundation, Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localization, and Axel Hecht, who co-ordinates localization from a technical perspective, and Ragavan Srinivasan, from Mozilla Labs. We had a meeting of the Mozilla Folks and the Pune Open Coffee Club. POCC member Gurminder Singh, posted this [...]

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(Ketan Deshpande, who is currently a 4th year engineering student in VIT, Pune, started the FUEL NGO 4 years ago, to help students of 12th standard navigate through the treacherous waters of what happens after their 12th standard exams. FUEL has now become a major movement across Maharashtra and parts of Karnataka. This article, is [...]

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Every year, Pune plays host to a major open source conference, GNUnify, organized by the Pune Linux Users Group and SICSR (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research).
nybody who has any interest in technology should try to attend. It is free, and open for anybody to attend. All you need to do is register here, [...]

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After a great Ignite Pune event last year, ThoughtWorks Pune brings you the second edition of Ignite Pune 2, on Thursday, March 18th, 6pm onwards, at Thoughtworks office, Ground Floor, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park, Yerwada.
Ignite comprises a series of 5 minute talks on a wide variety of topics of general interest; and it comes [...]

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(This essay was written by Kaushik Gala, is taken from his website, where you can find more such essays by him, and is reproduced here with permission. Kaushik is a Business Development Manager at Pune-based startup incubator Venture Center. Please send any comments to galatime@gmail.com)
I want to estimate the number of innovative enterprises in India, [...]

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Update: The contest is over (but the discussion can still continue!) Abhay Patil, who judged the contest, had this comment about the contenst:

On behalf of IITB Alumni Association (Pune Chapter) – organizers of Innovations 2010 – let me thank PuneTech and it’s members for this set of insightful, passionate and well articulated responses. You literally [...]

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