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(Update: This article was a PuneTech April Fools Prank. For a full apologyexplanation, see our article on 2 April.)
At PuneTech, one of the things that gives us pleasure is coming up with new ways in which this site can help the tech community in Pune. To quote Dhananjay Nene, we display a “willingness to experiment, [...]

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Yesterday, on the occasion of Persistent Systems‘ IPO, we ran an unabashedly positive post about Persistent and Anand Deshpande’s contributions to the Pune technology community. This resulted in some eyebrows raised about the appropriateness of the article. There were two concerns:

The timing of the article, while an IPO is in progress, could be inappropriate
Writing such [...]

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Suggest new and interesting ways in which Pune’s techies can collaborate with each other and win a Google Wave invitation

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Unmesh Mayekar urges the community to start a series on PuneTech where everyday problems (plaguing Pune) are taken and an attempt is made to address them using technology.

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This note lays out the editorial policy for PuneTech.com, to help the community understand what goes up on the site, and why.

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We are now experimenting with an additional format for PuneTech updates – short video clips hosted on YouTube.
Almost since the time PuneTech started, people have been suggesting to us that we should use video. Finally, something clicked last week, and we decided to take the plunge and start it on an experimental basis.
Our first few [...]

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Suggest various ways in which Pune’s tech community scene can be made even more rocking that it already is, and win a proto.in pass.

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Have you ever forgotten about an interesting tech event in Pune, and then regretted the fact that you did not attend it?
PuneTech is pleased to announce the Free PuneTech Event Reminder SMS service that will send you reminders about tech events in Pune one day before. Basically, this is a Google SMS channel, where we [...]

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This weekend promises to be very hectic for techies in Pune with at least 6 events planned. If you did not know about at least 4 of them, you have not been paying attention – PuneTech has already written about the tweet-up (6:30pm), the Marathi localization meeting (6pm), the presentation on Google Android, and the [...]

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Sorry. We had mistakenly reported a wrong date for Freeman Murray’s hands on workshop for startups. The correct date is Sunday 29th March, 9:30am to 1:30pm. Details are here.
Seven tech events over the next 3 days
There are seven different events over the next 3 days in Pune that would be of interest to the Pune [...]

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