Use of renewable energy is hot subject today. This week the Indian Institute of Production Engineers, Pune chapter (IIPE Pune) is coming to you with:
What : Renewable Energy sources – Specially Solar. Speaker : Mr. Deepak Kelkar Venue: COEP Pune Production Engineering department. Date: Wednesday, 18th Noember 2009. Time: 18=30 hrs. to 20=00 hrs. Charges: Free for all. No registration required.
Mr. Deepak Kelkar is mechanical engineer. He has huge experience in sugar industry to install and commission different equipments. He has started Squre Engineering Pvt. Ltd. in 1986, as EPC company and they are specialized in Renewable Solar energy. They have collaboration with many renouned names in the field. They are working in renewable energy sources since 1992. Mr. will be sharing his experieces in this field. Suare Engineering has developed SUNCUBE – innovative system. The system genrates DC power by using “Tripple Junction PV cells under concentration of 1000X of Sun light.
Visit http://squareengg.com/ for details of Square Engineering Pvt Ltd
and http://groups.google.com/group/iipepune?hl=en for learning more about IIPE activities.
What:ISACA Pune meet. Understanding Wi-Fi Security Fundamentals by Dr. Hemant Chaskar When: Saturday, 14th November, 6pm-8:30pm Where: College of Agricultural Banking of Reserve Bank of India on University Road, Shivajinagar Registration and Fees: Free for all to attend. No registration required
Details
Dr. Hemant Chaskar is a domain expert in WiFi security.
He holds Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Hemant is also anchor for Pune chapter of Data Security Council of India (DSCI).
He has more than 10 years of experience in security, networking and telecommunications industry in USA and India.
For last 5 years, he has extensively worked on WiFi networking and wireless security. Currently, he is Director of Technology at AirTight Networks, which is a global leader in WiFi security and performance management products and solutions.
Pune has a Barcamp this weekend – on Saturday, 14th November, from 10am to 5pm, at SCIT, Hinjewadi (bus pick-up & drop off provided from SICSR, Model Colony). A barcamp is a get-together of passionate people from (mostly) the technology domain – including students, young professionals and old, grizzly industry veterans. To understand more, see the PuneTech post that explains what a barcamp is, and what to expect.
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This post talks about why it is a great opportunity for students, and why they should make every effort to attend barcamp, even if it means skipping college lectures for a day. Here are the top reasons:
Finding great projects: Far too many student projects these days focus on ideas that were old 5 years ago, using technologies that are even older. To find be exposed to the latest trends in tecnologies, and to get ideas for very different and interesting projects, and to find passionate project guides, a barcamp is a great venue. This would be most useful for someone in their 3rd year. Now is the time to identify a good company to work with for a project. Far too many students start looking for projects in the beginning of their 4th year, and then scramble desperately as they’re unable to find sponsors. I would even encourage 2nd year students to do some mini-projects with the people they meet at barcamp. Nothing improves your resume as much as a “real” project with a “real” company. (Your course projects are all worthless.)
Challenging internships with lots of responsibility: Many founders of Pune’s small startups will be at barcamp, and they are always looking for interns to work on their projects. Startups, by their very definition, have lots of cutting edge work to do, and not enough people to do it. So an internship at a startup will certainly give you much more responsibility, and the ability to work on latest technologies, than an internship at a larger company. If you’re looking for an internship starting in December’09 or January’10, come to barcamp, listen to the various presentations, and just directly approach the speakers you liked. Tell them you want an internship. Don’t be shy.
Recommendation letters: I’ve realized that there are a number of students who want recommendation letters for their applications for MS in the US. Getting good recommendations means you have to do non-trivial work with people who matter, and who’ll be able to give you a good recommendation. Doing a B.E. project with someone is a poor way of getting a reco. Mainly because you need the reco in November, and by that time, you’ll have done so little work in your project that your guide will not be in a position to give a great recommendation. It would be much better to start working with them in your 3rd year. Even better if you start in 2nd year, so that you have a chance to do multiple projects with multiple people – more recos and more projects is better, right?
Learning! There is a lot to learn at barcamp, as people talk about the latest technologies, new domains, and new opportunities. If you are one of those weird and rare students who’s actually interested in learning new things, and meeting people who can guide you, then barcamp is the place for you. (And if you are one of these, then I would like to meet you!) What can you learn at barcamp? For example, I’ll be talking about why it is very important, especially in India, to integrate voice (phone) and SMS into your web-based software. And how to do it. Priyank will probably talk about developing rich internet applications using Adobe Flex. Shankar might talk about how to convert your ideas to commercially viable innovation. Whatever Dhananjay talks about will be very intersting and useful, though he hasn’t decided yet. There will be lots of other interesting topics – but because of the nature of barcamp, we can’t really know what those topics are until the morning of barcamp.
So, what do you need to do, to attend barcamp, and how to prepare for it?
Nothing! Barcamp is free. Anyone can attend. Just show up at the venue. If SCIT is too far for you, figure out how/where to catch the barcamp bus from SICSR, Model Colony.
Bring a notepad and pen, to note down the email addresses of people you would like to get in touch with later, for projects|internships|guidance|generally.
Don’t be shy. If you’re a good student, and willing to work sincerely, you are an extremely hot commodity, and everybody will be interested in you. You can approach anybody and tell them that you’re a student from X college, and you are interested in a project|internship|guidance. They’ll be happy to talk to you.
If you have a great idea for a project and are looking for a someone who can guide you, prepare a short talk about your idea, and then speak at the barcamp. Anybody can speak. Your talk will help you find a guide.
That’s it. Send a “proxy laga dena yaar” sms to your friend and head off to Hinjewadi.
If you know a student or students who can benefit from attending barcamp, please forward this mail to them.
Pune will have a “BarCamp” free conference this Saturday, 14th November, in SCIT Hinjewadi (bus pickup/dropoff provided from Model Colony). We believe that all technology professionals, and all computer science students should take this opportunity to get exposure to some of the most interesting people and technologies in Industry. To register (free) for barcamp, and for details of venue, timing etc, click here.
What is Barcamp?
A Barcamp is a “democratic” conference. It is not a normal / traditional conference. A normal / traditional conference is usually put together by a committee of professors, or industry veterans, and the speakers are selected by the committee and invited to speak. Many of the speakers are “forced” upon the conference by the sponsors, and they end up droning about how cool their product is. The other talks tend to be boring “lectures” or “speeches” that you fall asleep in. Who can attend is also constrained by money (conferences fees are high), or by other means (only members may attend).
Anybody who’s been to a traditional conference will tell you that the tea-breaks and the corridor-conversations are the most interesting and important part of a conference. Think of a barcamp as an entire conference that consists only of tea-breaks and corridor-conversations. Well, it’s a little more structured than that – but not much … A barcamp is not a conference – it is an unconference. Anybody can attend a barcamp. Anybody can speak on any topic that they are passionate about. A whiteboard is put up in the morning with the available rooms and timeslots. People can write down their name and the title of their talk in any available slot. Based on this, the others can decide which talks they want to attend. That’s it. Repeat all day. Democracy.
You’ll wonder, if anybody can speak, how do we ensure quality of speakers and presentations? By the “law of two feet“. The audience in a Barcamp are encouraged to use their two feet and walk away from a talk if it turns out to be boring. People are encouraged to find and create subgroups interested in specific topics, find a room or a corridor, and start discussing – and they often do.
This ensures that everybody finds something interesting, and often something unexpected at a Barcamp. Maybe you might find the 15-year-old kid who knows more about Search-Engine-Optimization than all the “industry veterans” you’ve met. Maybe you’ll go there to learn new technology and instead find some really interesting NGO or other social work organization and join that. Maybe you’ll just land up there, not knowing what to expect, and end up finding not just your first job, but a great career. Maybe you have an idea for a company, but don’t know how to implement it, and you’ll find someone at Barcamp who’s willing to handle the technology for you.
I’m not just making all of that up. Each one of the sentences in the previous paragraph that started with “Maybe” is actually a real-life story that I’ve seen happen during some of the Barcamps in the last couple of years in Pune. And there are a lot more such stories.
Over the next few days, we’ll be writing short articles on why you should attend Barcamp. If you’re a student looking for projects, internships, or recos. Or you are an entrepreneur with an idea, but don’t know enough about technology to implement it. Or you’re an employee of a big company and are looking to hire some really smart people … or you’re looking to be hired by some really smart people. Or you’re a startup looking for collaboration, business development, or simply mentors/advisors.
This Saturday, 7th November, the Pune Open Coffee Club will meet to discuss an important issue facing many of Pune’s small startups. How can a small startup with limited funds sell effectively in the US market? First we’ll start with a couple of early achievers – Pune startups that launched on the world stage, with the entire world watching them: Dubzer, which launched at DEMOFall’09, and Onion.tv which launched at TechCrunch50. We will follow that up with a panel discussion on the details and mechanics and logistics and the strategy and the tactics of enterprise sales in the US – with panelists who have lots of experience in this area. Read on for details. This event is free for all to attend, and there is not registration required. So if you know someone who would benefit by this, please forward this article to them.
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4pm-4:30pm: Dubzer’s experience with DEMOFall’09 AlphaPitch – Santosh Dawara
Dubzer, a SaaS offering that allows publishers to quickly and easily create translated versions of their websites without requiring any technology development or software changes, debuted at the AlphaPitch event at DEMOFall ’09. We have covered details of this here. Santosh will talk about the whole experience, how they got in, how they prepared, the expenses, and the benefits.
4:30pm-5pm: Onion.tv’s experience with TechCrunch50 – Nilesh Diane
Onion.tv, another SaaS offering that allows publishers of video content to add tags, notes, tables-of-content, and other rich meta-data to their videos, was selected for the TechCrunch50 DemoPit. We covered the details of that here. Nilesh Diane will talk about their experience, and other Pune startups can get a feel for what they need to do to be in the same situation.
5pm-6:15pm: How to bootstrap enterprise sales in the US Panel Discussion
We have three panelists – Abhijit Athavale, Devendra Deshmukh, and Amit Paranjape – each of whom have over 10 years of experience doing enterprise sales in the US. Each panelist will speak for about 15 minutes about specific topics related to the theme (as given below), and answer questions from the audience. After that we’ll have about 30 minutes of a general Q&A where startups can ask any questions to the panelists.
Details:
Devendra Deshmukh, will talk about “How to set up a sales channel; How to increase your reach; and also talk about his early experiences in this area while setting up eZest.” Devendra is a founder and executive director of e-Zest Solutions Ltd., e-Zest Inc. & e-Zest (UK) Ltd. He is also a co-founder of Webizus Technologies, the IT (Information Technology) consulting company. He has experience of working with Indian software companies in both the operational and business development functions. For more, see his linked-in profile.
Abhijit Athavale will cover: “How to hire a Sales Rep; Why and how much time to spend in the field; The difference in sales and distribution and why it matters.” Abhijit is President and CEO of Markonix, and a high-tech marketing consultant. He has 16+ years of high-technology industry experience. Prior to Markonix, Abhijit spent over 11 years at Xilinx, Inc. in various engineering, applications and marketing roles. In his role as a marketing consultant, he has held executive management positions at Taray, Inc and Sanved DA. He has a masters degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University and a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from University of Pune. He is an accomplished speaker and author of several publications including a book. For more, see his linked-in profile.
Amit Paranjape will talk about: “The dynamics of enterprise sales (understanding your customer, his ecosystem, his business) and the kinds of problems you run into if you don’t understand all of this.” Amit has been in senior positions with enterprise product companies for over 12 years, most of it with i2 in Dallas, USA. He has extensive leadership experience across Product Management/Marketing, Strategy, Business Development, Solutions Development, Consulting and Outsourcing. For more, see his linked-in profile.
The panel discussion will be moderated by me (Navin Kabra). If you have any specific questions or areas that that you’d like the panelists to cover, please send them to navin @ punetech, or leave a comment below.
6:15-7pm: General Networking
Practise your startup pitch, bring your business cards, mingle, portray the confidence that you don’t always feel, ask the seniors for free advice, convince the juniors that working nights and evenings for your startup will be the most fun thing they’ve ever done, and feel out your peers for potential co-founders. Ask the panelists questions that you were too shy to ask in public, practise your startup pitch, set-up follow-up meetings with potential advisors, mentors, CAs, HR outsourcers, php coders, facebook app developers, potential angel investors, and people who will help you get in touch with potential angel investors. Or just talk about beer, or Pune’s new microbrewery, or ask around for new and interesting restaurants in town, practise your pitch, and find new and interesting people to be friends with. And, did I mention, practise your pitch? All of this…possible only at a Pune Open Coffee Club meeting. Be there.
Logistics:
What: Pune OpenCoffee Club meeting on How Pune’s startups can sell in the US enterprise market. Featuring presentations by Dubzer & Onion.tv’s recent success at DEMOFall’09 and TechCrunch50, and a panel discussion with Abhijit Athavale, Devendra Deshmukh, and Amit Paranjape When: Saturday, Nov 7th, 4pm-7pm Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map. Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required.
There are a bunch of interesting events in Pune this week. If you’re following the PuneTech calendar, you already know about them, but if you don’t here is a quick lowdown
MCCIA’s PuneExpo:
The theme for this year’s PuneExpo is “Business @ Innovation”
Initiated in the year 2002,this annual exposition is organized by the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce ,Industires and Agriculture(MCCIA) in the city of Pune and is regraded as one of the largest of its kind in India.Owing to its integrated nature that is not segment-specific,participant demography in the past has spanned sectors such as automotive, engineering, IT, electronics and electricals, polymers, food-processing, agriculture and wine-making, as well as service sectors such as insurance, banking and finance, education and research, thus proving to be an effectively platform for cross-sectoral interaction.
Wed, Nov 4 to Sunday Nov 8. At COEP Grounds. Details.
PuneChips: Talk by Cliff Cummings on SystemVerilog FSM, Assertion, & RTL tricks for Design Engineers
PuneChips is a sub-group of PuneTech started by Abhijit Athavale and is focused on the semiconductor/VLSI/chip testing & automation/EDA industry in Pune. They usually hold events on the first Thursday of every month. This month’s event is a talk on SystemVerilog a combined Hardware Description Language and Hardware Verification Language based on extensions to Verilog. As companies start migrating from Verilog to SystemVerilog it is becoming importatnt that they learn the tools of tread to effectively use it.
Thu, 5th Nov, 6:30pm, at Venture Center, NCL Innovation Center. Details.
PMI Monthly Meet: “Business Process Management” and “How to develop personality of a leader”
The Project Management Institute’s Pune chapter is one of the most active chapters, and they hold a seminar with two talks on the second Saturday of every month.
Bootstrapping sales & marketing in the US – POCC event
USA is still the largest market in the world for IT products. Our next meeting will cover practical advice and challenges around selling in the US. The aim is to have an engaging session that will help first-time entrepreneurs take back valuable ideas that they can apply in their own Businesses.
What: Meeting of the NULL security usergroup featuring talks on Malware analysis and an Open mail relay bypassing captcha and crypto When: Saturday, 31 Oct, 5pm Where: SICSR, Model Colony Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required Link: Null Blog
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Introduction to Malware Analysis
By DaH4cker
A short presentation on the techniques & tools used for malware analysis followed by a live example. I will be showing behavioral analysis approach which includes setting up a inexpensive, flexible environment & tools required for understanding inner-workings of malware.
What: The Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) hosts a monthly event. This one is on eGovernance with Anupam Saraph, CIO of Pune City, and Gautam Pal, Director of ETDC. When: Thursday, 29th October, 7:00pm to 8:30pm Where:Hotel Ambassador, Shivajinagar, Pune Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required.
Details
1.Dr. Anupam Saraph, CIO of Pune City, will speak on the IT quality issues in the e-Governance domain.
2.Mr. Gautam Pal, Director, ETDC, will be sharing his thoughts and experience on e-Governance initiative across the country and the quality framework,Conformity Assessment Framework (CAF)
Moblin is short for ‘mobile Linux‘, is an open sourceoperating system and application stack for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, and nettops. Built around the Intel Atom processor, current builds are designed to minimize boot times and power consumption to create a netbook and MID-centric operating system. The netbook/desktop version of Moblin currently supports other chipsets based on the SSSE3 instruction set, such as the Core2 and some Celeron processors.
On Thursday, 22 October, 10am to 4pm, in Le Meridien, Pune, Intel will hold a free, seminar to help developers understand this platform, the surrounding ecosystem, and also to meet key players in this ecosystem. Basically, any Linux/mobile developer interested in building rich internet and media experiences on mobile devices (phones, handhelds, netbooks, nettops, in-vehicle infotainment and embedded systems) should attend to understand the Moblin ecosystem, and also to meet key players like Novell, Phoenix, Wind River and explore new business opportunities.
In addition, this event will also talk about Intel’s Atom Developer program. Here is the pitch for that program:
The netbook has become a one of the most popular consumer devices in the market today, but its true potential has been limited by applications that are not optimized for its mobility and small screen size. The Intel Atom Developer program helps developers to create innovative new applications for mobile devices using the Atom processor. The program gives developers access to multiple classes of customers, and allows them to target Moblin and Windows based devices using a single toolset. This event will also give an overview of this program, the validation procedure, the APIs and the app marketplace framework.
Details
What: Moblin v2 for Atom roadshow by Intel When: Thursday, 22 Oct 2009, 10am-4pm Where: Le Meridien, Pune Registration and Fees: This is free for all to attend. Register here.
What: Project Management Institute, Pune Chapter’s monthly meeting, consisting of two sessions – 1. Chanakya‘s Project Management ideas by Anuraag Gupta. 2. Setting correct expectations around test automation by Shrikant Dhamal When: Saturday, October 10th, 10:00 am to 12:30 pm Where: Cummins Auditorium, Pune Shramik Patrakar Sangh, 193 Navi Peth, Ganjwe Chowk, Near Alka Talkies, Garware bridge & S. M. Joshi hall, Pune 411030. Reception (Tel) – +91(20) 24534190 Registration: This event is free for all, and no registration is required
Chanakya’s Project Management ideas by Anuraag Gupta
Anuraag has a 1st class Bachelors of Commerce degree from Mumbai University. He currently works with Laymen Consultants – a Mumbai based Training Company as Financial Trainer & Speaker on Finance. He also works as Chief Investment Officer with Profound Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai – a Proprietary Trading and Investment company investing in various Asset Classes. He is a visiting faculty at Garware Institute of Career Education and Development, Mumbai University and a Speaker at Rotract club seminars for Wealth Building and Stock Picking. He is founder and chief convener of Mumbai Investors Group – a closed investor forum.
Chanakya is the world’s oldest management Guru. He lived in 3rd Century BC and his book Kautilya’s Arthashastra has guided generations on good governance. It is also a book of management and has various ideas and principles that can be applied in the field of modern project management. From planning of projects, to understanding a project in detail, execution of projects and successful completion of projects he has left nothing untouched. These ideas are simple to understand and practical in its application. The session will bring out the age of ideas of Chanakya in detail.
Setting correct expectations around test automation by Shrikant Dhamal PMP®
Shrikant has over 10 years of industry experience with last 7 years in Software testing domain. He currently heads the Test Automation Center of Excellence in SQS India, the offshore wing of SQS Group, world’s largest independent software testing & quality management services provider. He has been actively involved in all the aspects of functional and automated regression testing having delivered more than 30 business-critical projects to customer satisfaction. He comes from mechanical engineering industry and has specialized in test automation using open source tools like Auto IT, Selenium etc. He has rich experience in various domains spanning Network monitoring and management, IT Information Security, HealthCare Insurance, Telecom, PLM, Credit Cards, Airline, CAD tools, Storage Area Network, Service Management Systems, CRM, and Wireless Security. He is also conducted corporate training for many Industry houses in and around Pune
Test automation becoming the key for executing routine and repetitive tests to catch up with ever increasing tests release after release of product and ever shrinking schedule. Many organizations are initiating test automation projects also for saving on efforts / cost of testing. Setting right expectations of stakeholders around test automation (output, effort, time and resources required) is the key to the success of project. Shrikant will point out considerations to set correct expectation around test automation project with the help of selected questions, which you should ask to stakeholders. Shrikant will cover following topics in his presentation:
Quick introduction to regression test automation
Regression test automation methodology
Questions and considerations to set correct expectations around test automation.
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