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POCC MVP Startup Roadies: Meet Morpheus Venture Partners in Pune 21st Feb

February 15, 2009External Visitorsentrepreneurs, Events, funding, POCC, startups, VCNavin Kabra

What: POCC & MVP (Morpheus Venture Partners) bring Startup Roadies program to Pune
When: Saturday, 21st Feb. Book a slot anytime between 10am to 7pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: Send an e-mail to nandini [at] morpheusventure [dot] com with a short (less than 300 words) intro of your startup. Please mention your preferred time slot.

About Morpheus Venture Partners

MVP runs a business advisory and mentoring program for startups. MVP currently has portfolio of more than 10 companies. Some of the companies are: Instablogs, Commonfloor, Lifemojo, Fachak, Crederity, Deskaway, Sutra.

Sameer Guglani and Nandini Hirianniah are the founding partners @ MVP. Both of them are serial entrepenuers and started their first venture Madhouse Media in 2004. Madhouse was one of the first organized movie rentals players. They successfully exited the venture with the acquisition by Seventymm in July 2007. More Info

The Startup Roadies Program

We absolutely love to meet passionate entrepreneurs whose ventures are in idea stage (not started, but want to really start) or 1-12 months into the operation. The interaction will be completely informal. Formal dresses are not a must, we want to see you as your natural self, no need to bring any presentations or any financial projections. Just come have a chat with us. Get a demo if possible, get all members of your founding team. Just ensure that you arrive on time as per the allocated slot 😉

The goal of the exercise is to together explore solutions to some of the “tough business problems” you are dealing with. We could do that by offering advice and potential solutions based on our experience. We would also love to introduce you to relevant folks in our network who can add value – potential partners, experienced people in similar domain, potential investors etc.

At our end we are just excited to get an opportunity to meet you and learn from your experience and ideas. Each session will be conducted in the below mentioned structure

Where are we? (Get on the same page, understand the current status of the venture / idea)

Team introduction
Understanding your idea, market size, the problem your solving, how is your product/service different that current available solutions
Figure out the current status of the venture – in development, alpha, beta, launched
How much money is available to the team

Where do we want to go? (what are we looking to accomplish in the coming future)

Discuss, debate and get clarity on the goals & milestones for
- Short term: 3 months
- Medium term: 1 year
- Long term: 3-5 years

How do we get there? (the most critical part where we together come up with the clear and measurable steps which will be taken to achieve the goals/milestones)

Given the current status and various goals, what is the best strategy to get there
How to proceed with execution
Best way to raise funding
Who are the folks to partner with
Make a list of action items out of the interaction

Mozilla for your business: Meet Seth Bindernagel and Arun Ranganathan of Mozilla – Sun, 15 Feb

February 10, 2009External Visitorsfirefox, jquery, localization, mozilla, open source, visitorsNavin Kabra

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Firefox
Firefox extensions as a business model?
Mozilla‘s mobile browser Fennec
JQuery and other such libraries – quick visual demos of what is possible
HTML5 & XHTML2 and W3C’s WebApps initiative
Localization
Emerging trends in JavaScript
The Bespin Web-based IDE – the google docs for code!
Exciting projects in Mozilla Labs

What to get first-hand information on any of these topics? Seth Bindernagel and Arun Ranganathan, Directors with Mozilla are in Pune this weekend, and we felt that Pune’s web-based businesses and web-developers should get a chance to interact with them to get an idea of the latest developments in the various products that Mozilla is involved in. There will be some presentations, and lots of time for Q&A.

What: Breakfast with Mozilla. Meet Arun Ranganathan, Mozilla Tech Evangelist, and Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localization for Mozilla
When: Sunday, 15 Feb, 9am to 1pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Room 707, 7th Floor, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all, but seats are limited. You must register at http://breakfast-with-mozilla.eventbrite.com/ (first-come-first-served).

Details:
9am-10am: Breakfast and Conversation
10am-1pm: A freewheeling, roundtable kind of discussion, loosely structured around the following:

Introductions of Seth and Arun. What we do, what we’d like to accomplish during our short stay in India, etc.
Introduction to the Mozilla Project (10 – 15 mins.). How we work, tools we use, etc. Brief history + discussion of our open source m.o.
Localization. *May* be able to demo Fennec, or mobile Firefox.
Extensions. Do the entrepeneurial community think extensions are a good model? Arun will also demo Personas. Essentially, discuss http://addons.mozilla.org/ and potential future directions.
Discussion about the Open Web. What do we mean by the Open Web? What tools, libraries, are available? Who supports it? What’s lacking? I’ll give demos of:
- Libraries such as jquery — very brief, visual demonstrations about what can be done with it.
- The Bespin IDE. It’s an open source project that we believe will alter how people think about web development 🙂 Essentially, discuss what web developers have been clamoring for, and what we’re doing to try and address that.
- Discussion of video, and open codecs. Discuss 2D and 3D graphics capabilities that are being introduced into the web platform. Why use technologies like Flash? Why NOT use technologies like Flash?
- What’s coming down the road? What should the platform be capable of? 3.5. Open discussion. What kinds of applications can be created on top of these tools? And, how can entrepreneurs and web developers help craft this direction?

POCC meeting: What should I create: sole proprietorship, partnership, pvt. ltd., LLP?

February 6, 2009Eventsentrepreneurs, legal, llp, POCC, startups, taxesNavin Kabra

Proposed new logo of the Pune OpenCoffee Club by Sahil Khan. Please give your feedback at http://sahilkhan.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/pocc-logo/ (click on the photo)

What: Pune OpenCoffee Club meeting to discuss company formation, registrations, tax planning and other related issues as they pertain to early stage startups.
When: Saturday, 7th February, 4:30pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, 7th Floor, Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road Model Colony. Map
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. No registration required.

Details:
There are a number of things about company formation, registrations, taxation, accounting and finanace, which are very confusing to young startups. It is not clear which experts to go to for advice, and the costs vary widely, and the expenses are quite significant for new startups. To tackle these questions and give everyone an overview of this area, the Pune OpenCoffee Club will have a session with three experts who will help us understand these issues and answer our questions.

We have invited the following people:

Jayesh Baheti is a partner at CA firm Baheti & Somani http://bandsindia.com
Prakash Shah, is a partner at a well known CA firm in Pune, started by his father.
Pawan Chandak is a practicing Company Secretary. He also handles corporate legal matters. http://chandakcs.com/proprietor.html

We will try to cover topics like:
1. Differences between sole proprietorship / partnership / pvt. ltd. and the new LLP. Which is appropriate in which circumstances. Licenses, costs, tax implications.
2. Understanding issues a young startup might face like: FBT, STPI registration, depreciation, PF, equity distribution
3. Tax planning, expenses and deduction.

Jayesh will give a presentation giving the basics of the above topics, so that everybody has an overview of the area, then we will have a discussion session where we can get our questions answered by Prakash, Pawan and Jayesh.

Media Advisory: Challenges Maintaining Cash Flow? Tax Planning Tips Can Help Ease the Crunch for Private Companies (newswire.ca)
LLCs, Corporations, Partnerships, Sole Proprietorships and Taxes (cpajohn.com)
The Basics of Business Structures (entrepreneurs.suite101.com)
Shareholder Agreements in a Business Partnership (selfemployment.suite101.com)

Top 5 reasons why students should gate-crash Drupal Camp India – Jan 31

January 27, 2009Eventsbarcamp, community, drupal, Events, PHP, unconference, user groupsNavin Kabra

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On Saturday, 31st Jan, from 10am to 5pm, 100s of Drupal enthusiasts will descend upon SICSR. It is a free (un)conference for Drupal developers, and entry was given a first-come-first-served basis. But as of this writing, Drupal Camp is full. However, Tarun Chandel, the god-father of all Pune unconferences, is encouraging everyone to gate-crash, and land up there, with or without registrations, and PuneTech fully supports him, (and so does Amit Kumar Singh, a.k.a. thecancerus).

That’s right – gate-crash, like uninvited wedding guests. It’s free, and it’s an unconference. Gate-crashing will actually be in the spirit of the event.

And if you are a student, then you must go, because in that one day, you will get more education than an entire month of your so-called classes.

With this in mind, here are PuneTech’s top 5 reasons why students must gate-crash Drupal Camp

Surprise your future employers: If you are in software, no matter what job you get, sooner or later you will be asked to build or oversee the building of a website, and there you should surprise everyone by having it ready, singlehandedly in one week as against their projections of 2-months using 3 people.
Beat the recession: As IT budgets get cut around the world, the web-development community will be hard hit, and companies will look to reduce spending on expensive web development. That’s why you should become a ninja at inexpensive web development using Drupal and its wide array of readymade modules.
Use this knowledge when you don’t get a job: Hey, let’s face it, if you are a student right now, it is very likely that you are not getting campus placement this year (or if you have been placed already, there’s a chance that it will get delayed or canceled). Instead of sitting around moping, the smart thing to do would be to start your own website and get to work for yourself. And for this, events like Drupal camp are great, for knowledge, for ideas and for contacts. For more reasons, see “Top 10 reasons why now is the best time to start a business with Drupal.”
Because you can: Think of all the poor little underprivileged students in Bangalore/Delhi/Hyderabad/Mumbai who cannot attend Drupal camp even if they want to. Because Drupal camp doesn’t happen in Bangalore. It doesn’t happen in Mumbai. It’s happening in Pune, and you are getting it free. Don’t give up this chance, because in the future, you (or your employer) will be charged exorbitant amounts for events like these, and you’ll still not be able to go because you have a stupid deadline.
Because PuneTech said so. And Amit Kumar Singh said so. And Tarun Chandel said so. And, I’m sure Rohit Srivastwa will say so as soon as he reads this. Seriously, you need to start listening to these guys.

If you are already going for Drupal camp, then please add to the list of reasons in the comments below.

Drupal Camp details:

What: Drupal Camp India ’09. Drupal Camp is a free, unconference, being conducted in Pune, with the objective to build up the community base and bring people closer. Details.
When: Saturday, 31st January, 10am to 5pm
Where: SICSR, 1st floor, Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road, Model Colony, Pune. Map.
Fees and Registration: This event is free for all to attend. Register here. Or not!

Business Intelligence Technology Trends: CSI Pune Lecture – 30 Jan

January 23, 2009EventsBI, community, csi, data warehousing, Events, TechnologyNavin Kabra

Computer Society of India – Pune Chapter presents the 4th lecture in a series on Data warehousing. The first lecture gave an overview of BI and DW. The second lecture was about how these techniques are used by businesses. The third was about data management for business intelligence. This is the fourth in the series:

What: Technology trends in Business Intelligence by Prasad Kulkarni of SAS R&D India.
When: Friday January 30th, 2008, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: Damle Hall, Damle Path, Behind Indsearch, Off Law College Road
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI Members & Students, Rs. 100 for others. Register here.

Details – Technology trends in Business Intelligence

This lecture will cover technological advances in BI domain. It will start with a discussion on general trends in BI and will relate them to technology. Primary focus is on different technologies used currently, their necessity and type of problem they are solving in the business intelligence domain. It will discuss areas like SOA (Service oriented architecture), SaaS (Software as a service), MDM (Master data management), Real time warehousing, Click stream data warehouses, Federated/integrated search, Web 2.0, Data visualization and so on. The participant will know how such technologies are solving problems specific to BI domain.

It is not necessary to have attended the previous lecture.

For more information about other lectures in this series, and in general other tech events in Pune, see the PuneTech events calendar.

About the speaker – Prasad Kulkarni

Prasad Kulkarni is working with SAS Research And Development India Pvt. Ltd for past 8 years as Associate Director – Platform Research and Development. He leads the core technology group at SAS R&D Pune. Prasad holds post graduation degree in computer management from University Of Pune and has 12 years of experience in the field of information technology. He has worked with product development setups in India. With SAS his focus areas are Metadata Management, Data Warehousing, Data visualization and Data access.

Lecture and Demo of SAGE Mathematical Software – 23 Jan

January 20, 2009EventsEvents, mathematics, open sourceNavin Kabra

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What: A lecture and demonstration of SAGE mathematical software by Dr. K.K. Surendran
When: Friday, 23 Jan, 4:30pm
Where: Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, 56/14, Erandavane, Damle Path, Off Law College Road, Pune
Fees and Registration: This event is free for all. No registration required

Details:
SAGE combines various open source mathematics software packages and seamlessly integrates their functionality into a common experience. Its aim is to create a Free Open Source equivalent to Magma, Mathematica, Maple and Matlab.

Sage can be used to study general and advanced, pure and applied mathematics. This includes a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very
advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, exact linear algebra and much more.

Sage was picked as the Hot Spot of the month in November 2008 by mathforum.org

The demo attempts to give a overview of SAGE with the aim of introducing mathematics students and teachers to appreciate the relevance of this wonderful open source software in contemporary mathematics education and research.

Mathematica on Amazon EC2
Cloud Computing and Science – MATLAB on Clouds
Free Matlab Programming Ebooks
So you want to study for a master’s in mathematics
Other tech events in Pune: http://punetech.com/calendar

The Great Debate: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL – with Jim Mlodgenski, 23 Jan

January 19, 2009Eventsdatabases, Events, mysql, posgresql, sql, TechnologyNavin Kabra

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This information sent in by @nikkhils of EnterpriseDB. Thanks!

What: “The Great Debate: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL” with Jim Mlodgenski, Senior Database Architect, EnterpriseDB
When: Friday, 23 Jan, 6pm
Where: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent, S.B. Road
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend, thanks to Persistent Systems

Details:
For years, the common industry perception has been that MySQL is faster and easier to use than PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is perceived as more powerful, more focused on data integrity, and stricter at complying with SQL specifications, but correspondingly slower and more complicated to use.

Like many perceptions formed in the past, these things aren’t as true with the current generation of releases as they used to be. DBAs, developers, and IT managers and decision-makers will benefit from this hour-long presentation about the pros and cons of using PostgreSQL or MySQL, which will include a discussion about the ongoing trend towards using open source in the enterprise.

About the Speaker – Jim Mlodgenski

Jim is one of EnterpriseDB’s first employees and joined the company in May, 2005. As Senior Database Architect he has been responsible for EnterpriseDB’s technical pre-sales, professional services, providing customized solutions and training.

Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Jim was a partner and architect at Fusion Technologies, a technology services company founded by EnterpriseDB’s chief architect, Denis Lussier. For nearly a decade, Jim developed early designs and concepts for Fusion’s consulting projects and specialized in Oracle application development, Web development, and open source.

Jim received a BS degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jim has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of many white papers on RDBMS

Acad DevCon: Microsoft Technologies Conference for Students – 18 Jan

January 14, 2009EventsAdd new tag, community, education, Microsoft, PUG, studentsNavin Kabra

This post by Pradnya Naik explains what Acad DevCon 2009 is, and why you should attend, and is reproduced here with permission.

ACAD DEVCON is a major event organized by Microsoft Student Partners and PUG in Pune to explain the most innovative and cutting edge technologies in Microsoft. So the question is who are Microsoft Student Partners and what is PUG?

Microsoft Student Partners are a group of enthusiastic students selected by Microsoft who love to explore and experiment with Microsoft products. Our main aim is to share knowledge among the student community because we believe in the proverb “teach one teach all”.We have been conducting developer’s conferences for students since 2005 and all events have been a major success…. The areas of interest not only limit to developing web based and windows based applications but also expand in areas of servers, operating systems and robotics.

Pune User Group is an association of professionals and students interested in technology who are dedicated and devoted to the noble cause of spreading knowlege. Every year PUG organises an event named DEVCON for professionals where experts address and give sessions to developers community. At present the whole organising team in Pune is an interested group of 25 people including MSP’s and the members cross the mark of 3000.

ACAD DEVCON is an event to get students from all colleges under one roof to share, collaborate and communicate ideas about their knowledge on various MS technologies. The sessions are interactive accompanied with onspot demos for better understanding of the subject.

What more !!!every student who attends ACAD DEVCON gets a kit for developing excellent applications on full version softwares provided at no charge.

So what are you waiting for!! Be there on 18th Jan, 2009 at COEP for ACAD DEVCON, 2009

For more information please click on ACAD DEVCON, 2009

About the author – Pradnya Naik

Pradnya, in her own words:

I go about the saying “Love what you do ..Do what you love..” A student by profession I love art, music, dance, travel and sports. I am a technology enthusiast and love working with computers. I believe that there is no end to learning and spreading knowlege and perfection comes with speed. I love to teach and so I became a Microsoft Student Partner, wherein I explore and explain Microsoft technologies to student community. It has been real fun to be a part of this campaign… So explore my blog to know me more… and ya keep smiling and be Happy…

You follow Pradnya’s blog, or you can follow her on twitter.

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CSI Pune Lecture: Security Testing Using Models – 16 Jan 6:30pm

January 14, 2009External Visitors, Technologyautomation, csi, Events, isacapune, security, testingNavin Kabra

What: CSI Pune Lecture on Security Testing Using Models with Prof. Padmanabhan Krishnan, Bond University, Australia.
When: Friday, 16th Jan, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent, S.B. Road
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI/ISACA members; Rs. 50 for students & Persistent employees; others Rs. 100. Register at http://csi-pune.org

Details:
In this, we present a framework based on model based testing for security vulnerabilities testing. Security vulnerabilities are not only related to security functionalities at the application level but are sensitive to implementation details. Thus traditional model based approaches which remove implementation details are by themselves inadequate for testing security vulnerabilities. We demonstrate a framework that retains the advantages of model based testing that exposes only the necessary details relevant for vulnerability testing.

Our framework has three sub-models: a model or specification of the key aspects of the application, a model about the relevant aspects of the implementation and a model of the attacker. These three models are them combined to generate test cases. The same approach can also be used to test if a system meets a privacy policy.

Who Should Attend: Professionals interested in Test Automation and students.

About the Speaker – Padmanabhan Krishnan

Prof. Krishnan is a Professor at the Centre for Software Assurance, School of IT, Bond University, Australia. He also holds a research associate position at the United Nations University, International Institute for Software Technology. He got his BTech from IIT-Kanpur and MS and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His interests are in model based testing, verification techniques and practical formal methods for software assurance. He has held positions in the USA, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany and Australia.

Update: The slides of the talk are now available. Click here if you can not see the slides below.

Security Testing Using Models

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