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Call for Speakers: GNUnify 2013 – 3-day open-source technologies conference
The call for speakers for GNUnify 2013, one of India’s biggest open source conferences, which runs for 3 days in February (15, 16, 17 Feb) in SICSR, Pune, is now open. If you have done any work with any open source technology, whether it is in the area of System Admin, Networking, Security, Web Technologies, [...]
Call For Speakers: WordCamp Pune 2013 (WordPress Developers)
(Update: This event has been postponed to 23/24 February. See updated details below.) Word Camp is a gathering of all the WordPress lovers in Pune on 23rd & 24th of February, 2013. It is organized by the WPoets, Span Shah, and volunteers from students of Modern College, where developers, designers, bloggers and casual users can [...]
Call for Speakers: GNUnify – India’s Biggest Open Source Conference
(Sorry about the late notice. This CFP for GNUnify is open until Wednesday Feb 1st, so please hurry and register as a speaker.) GNUnify, organized by Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG) and SICSR is one of the biggest free and open source conferences in India. It will be held on 10th and 11th Feb in [...]
FUDCon – Conference for Fedora Linux Users and Developers – 4-6 Nov
Abhijit A.M. of CoEP writes: We are very pleased to invite you to FUDCON’11 (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) to be hosted in CoEP from 4th (Fri) to 6th (Sun) of Nov 2011. FUDCON is one of the world’s biggest Free and Open Source (FOSS) conferences. Fedora itself is one of the most popular GNU/Linux [...]
Python, Django, Git, Virtualization and more at Fedora Activity Day 1 – Sept 24
A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) is scheduled for Saturday, September 24, 2011, 1000 IST onwards at Red Hat office in Pune. The objective of this FAD is to get any beginner, particularly students, introduced to Open Source and Linux in general, and involved in Fedora in particular, in preparation of FUDCon, Pune. Agenda Since this [...]
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 [...]
Pune Students – Become a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador
Wikipedia wants lots of Indian students to be involved in contributing to the Wikipedia, and with this in mind they are starting an ambitious program in India. And this will start with a large-scale, high-impact pilot in Pune. The basic idea is to recruit “Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors” in Pune, who will find, recruit and train [...]
TechWeekend7 (#tw7): Mobile Application Development – 19 Feb
TechWeekend 7 (#tw7) will focus on Mobile Application Development, and we have these talks lined up: Application Development for Windows Phone 7 & Marketplace – by Mayur Tendulkar. With Nokia throwing all its weight behind Windows Phone 7 for all its smartphones, Windows Phone 7 has suddenly become a much more important platform than it [...]
What to expect at GNUnify – Pune’s biggest open source conference – 11/12 Feb
GNUnify is possibly India’s biggest open source conference and it is happening in Pune on 11th and 12th February. The schedule (day 1, and day 2) is up and there’s a lot of interesting stuff. There are workshops, talks, labs, and a wikipedia track. Here are what we believe are the highlights: Workshops: There’s one [...]
PHPCamp is back – Register to be a Speaker
India’s largest unconference, PHPCamp is back. PHPCamp 2011 will be on Saturday, 5th March, 2011. The venue is not yet decided but the call for speakers is out. If you’ve done any interesting work in PHP, this is your chance to show it off to 100s of PHP developers and students (actually the number has [...]