Archive for the ‘open source’ tag.
Wikipedia & Indian Developers – Wikimedia/Mediawiki meetup in Pune – 13 Dec
Erik Möller, Danese Cooper, and Alolita Sharma, all senior members of the Wikimedia Foundation (the “NGO” behind Wikipedia) are visiting Pune, and a meeting has been organized for everyone interested in Wikipedia to meet them and talk about the product strategy, especially in reference to India and Indian developers. What’s Wikimedia? What’s Mediawiki? The Wikimedia [...]
Android/iPhone/BlackBerry/Nokia – Which platform(s) should developers target
(I attended the IndicThreads Conference on Mobile Application Development today. This article is based on presentations made there and conversations I had with some of the presenters.) The smartphones market is very fragmented. In 3Q2010, Symbian had 37% of the smartphone market, Android was second with 25% (it was at 2% 18 months ago), and [...]
Calling all Drupal users, developers and enthusiasts in Pune – Drupal Meeup Nov 13
Dipench says: This is call for general drupal meetup in city of pune, more and more consulting shops and product startups are now using drupal and its a nice time to start regular monthly meetups to keep a pulse on how people are using drupal. Agenda for the meetup is almost anything under the sun [...]
Mini DebConf – conference for developers interested in Debian GNU/Linux OS – 7/8 Aug
Amit Karpe writes about what to expect from Mini DebConf Pune, 7/8 Aug 2010, the conference for enthusiasts of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system
6 events in next 4 days: science, maths, cleantech, IP and open source
The events in Pune in the next four days are a great example of the diversity of Pune in the “science and technology” sector. Far too often, we assume that technology means software technology, but Pune does have much more. NCL is one of the top institutes in the country for chemical technology, and has [...]
Demo Talk on “R” – software for analyzing and visualizing data – 29 May
What: Demo talk on R – free software package for analyzing and visualizing data, part of Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana’s lecture series for promotion of open source Math software When: Saturday, 29 May 2010, at 3pm-4:30pm Where: Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration is required. Overview of R [...]
Event report: Mozilla for you Business
(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 [...]
An Abundance of Open Source: GNUnify conference in Pune this weekend
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). Anybody 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 [...]
Web applications from the ground up, by Mitchell Tannenbaum
What: Talk on “Web applications from the ground up” by Mitchell Tannenbaum, organized by Pune Linux Users group, and SICSR When: Monday, Feb 8, 2pm Where: SICSR Registration and Fees: Free for all to attend. No registration required Details This talk will cover web applications from a few different angles, starting with what they are [...]
Submit a presentation proposal for the GNUnify Open Source conference
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). To quote the website GNUnify symbolizes the philosophy behind Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). It makes an effort to unify and strengthen the FOSS movement. Initiated in the [...]