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PHPCamp Pune – the biggest (un)conference in India

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PHPCamp in Pune this Saturday, with a reported 700+ campers, was easily the biggest barcamp-style event in India. There were people coming in from all over the country, including groups of students from various colleges (not necessarily from Pune). Unfortunately, I missed it, and I’m trying to make up for it by rounding-up all the blog posts about PHPCamp that have appeared over the weekend. I’ll update this post as more pop up. The PHPCamp website has a comprehensive list of all blog posts before and after the event.

Some of the presentations are online. Check them out.

Varun Arora gives the history of PHPCamp and a blow-by-blow account of how the day progressed. Priyank has another view of the history of PHPCamp. Rahul Bansal of the Devil’s workshop points out that Drupal and Joomla got a lot of airtime but was very surprised at the absence of the two most popular PHP platforms, WordPress and Facebook. A talk on OpenSocial by Pravin Nirmal appears to be one of the most talked about talks.

Amit Kumar at AmiWorks, one of the organizers, has put up photos of the volunteers from SICSR and Pune IT Labs who did a lot of the behind-the-scenes work. Amit has also written about the 10 things he gained from unorganizing PHPCamp. This should encourage all of you to organize some community event. 

Tarun Chandel one of the godfathers of all barcamp style get-togethers in Pune was also on hand and has uploaded a bunch of photographs of PHPCamp on his photoblog. You can see how crowded the rooms were, with probably more people standing than sitting.

Also check out these other blog posts about PHPCamp by Sebastiaan Deckers, Priyanka Parekh, Rishi Agarwal,  Jaguarnac, and MyPHPDuniya.

CSI Pune Seminar on Entrepreneurship (Thu, 25th Sept)

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What: CSI-Pune‘s seminar on entrepreneurship

Date and Time: 2 pm to 6 pm on 25-Sep-2008  

Where: Hall No. 4, A Wing, MCCIA Trade Tower, 5th Floor, ICC  Complex, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune 411 016

Registration: This event is free for all, but please register at www.csi–pune.org.

Details:

Today many professionals are aspiring to be entrepreneurs – mainly to get more job satisfaction, a sense of great accomplishment and personal financial gain. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking – especially so in IT business because there are rapid technological advances and significant competition. This seminar is aimed at featuring some “high-profile” entrepreneurs to share their experiences and provide valuable advice to aspiring entrepreneurs, provide inputs regarding raising of venture capital and discuss on how to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

 

Time

Event

Participant(s)
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Registration  
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm Inauguration and release of CSINewsletter  
2:40 pm – 3:20 pm Keynote address Dr. Anand Deshpande (MD & CEO, Persistent Systems) / Dr. Srikanth Sundarrajan (COO, Persistent Systems)
3:20 pm – 4:00 pm Approaching VCs – How they decide who to fund Manik Arora (Founder and Managing Director, IDG Ventures)
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Tea Break  
4:15 pm – 4:55 pm “Scaling Company successfully -> from Automated Securities to SunGard India” Harsh Barve (Vice Chairman, SunGard India)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Panel discussion – building an entrepreneurial ecosystem and helping bridge the perceived gaps as brought out by the VC ·                      Manik Arora (Founder and Managing Director, IDG Ventures)   

·                      Yoshima Somvanshi, Sr. Associate Consultant, National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)

Entrepreneurs:

·                      Vishwas Mahajan (CEO – Compulink)

·                      Rajeevlochan Phadke (CEO – Image Point Technologies)

·                      Sandeep Kumar (MD, ProductDossier)

·                      Ajay Phatak (MD, Jopasana, a CoreObjects company)

·      Panel coordinator: Madhukar Bhatia (nFactorial Software, formerly VP at Symphony Services and Founder of In-Reality Software)

 

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Pune buzzing with tech activity this weekend (20 Sept)

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This is going to be a very active weekend for tech activities in Pune. The big gorilla is of course, PHPCamp, the day long unconference for PHP enthusiasts on Saturday. With 700+ registrations from all over India (and indeed from other countries too), it promises to be a huge event even if just one third of the participants show up. Very impressive for a free event organized by volunteers in their free time. And if the enthusiasm seen at previous barcamps is any indication, the energy at this event will be awesome. This is a day long event at Persistent Systems near Null stop. Further event details are here.

If PHP is not your cup of tea, there are a couple of other events happening in parallel during the day. Dr. Neeran Karnik, a technical directory with Symantec Research Labs, Pune, will give a seminar on how to write good research papers at PICT. I’ve worked with Neeran for many years now, and he is good – both, as a researcher, and also as a speaker. If you have any intentions of doing research, or in general writing papers, I would say you should try to go for this one. Neeran has a PhD from the University of Minnesota, USA, and has worked with IBM Research Labs, Delhi, and Symantec Research Lab, Pune. He has been on numerous program committees of international academic conferences. He is also one of the original founders of CricInfo. This event is from 3pm to 5pm at PICT. Further details are here.

ThoughtWorks is organizing a Geek Night on Saturday afternoon, and the theme is Usability. Coming close on the heels of Pune OpenCoffee Club’s meetup on usability, this indicates that this very important field is finally getting the recognition it deserves in Pune. Abhijit Thosar, who has 20 years of experience in designing products based on emerging technologies will conduct the seminar. This event is from 2pm to 4pm at Thoughtworks, Yerwada. Further details are here.

Finally, September 20th is also Software Freedom day. But, wisely, the organizers have shifted the event to Sunday. This event will extol the virtues of free and open source software – like GNU/Linux, PHP – and is the place to go if you want to get started, or want help in any of these areas. Further details are here.

And Hemir Doshi, of IDG Ventures India, will be in Pune on Thursday and Friday, looking to meet early and early expansion stage technology and tech-enabled consumer companies. If you are interested in meeting hi, send him an email at hemir_doshi at idgvcindia dot com.

Stay in touch with all the interesting tech events happening in Pune, at the community-driven tech events calendar for Pune. Please note, it’s community driven. That means you. Please contribute. Add your events there.

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How to write a research paper – Seminar on Sept 20

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What: Seminar on how to write a good research paper, by Dr. Neeran Karnik, Symantec Research Labs
When: Saturday September 20, 2008 from 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Where: Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Satara Road, Pune, Maharashtra

Registration: This even is free for all, and no registration is required
This is intended to be a basic introduction for students and faculty on how to write a good research paper.
Speakers :
Dr Neeran Karnik, Technology Director, Symantec
Dr. Arun Gaikwad, Principal PICT Pune
Prof Rajesh Ingle, Head Computer Dept.  

Some links to background material:
1. Writing a Paper –http://www.che.iitm.ac.in/misc/dd/writepaper.pdf
2. How to write a paper http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/PS/re-writing.pdf
3. How to write a great research paper-http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/writing-a-paper-slides.pdf
4. How to Read a Paper- http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/drupal/files/p83-keshavA.pdf
5. Writing Reviews for Systems conferences- http://people.inf.ethz.ch/troscoe/pubs/review-writing.pdf
6. Science of Scientific Writing- http://www.amstat.org/publications/jcgs/sci.pdf

Keep up with all other interesting tech events happening in Pune at the PuneTech events calendar. Add your events there to reach a wide audience.
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Software Freedom Day – Sept 21

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What: Software Freedom Day – Celebrating GNU/Linux, PHP, etc.
When: Sunday September 21, 2008 from 11:00am – 3:00pm

Where: Bhaskaracharya Pratisthan
56/14, Damle Path, off Law College Road, Erandavane, Pune, 411 004.
Pune, Maharashtra

Program :
 1) Installation Demo: Fedora, Ubuntu, Open SuSE, Mandriva.
2) Install Fest: Bring your machine, we will install GNU/Linux on it.
3) Small Demo: Hands on Demo for c,php programming.

PS: Please give us your suggestions.
We want more Programs like talks, workshops.
So please come forward as speaker.
Also we want volunteers, who will help for this event.

For more information about – Software Freedom Day
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day

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Geek Night – Usability Design with Abhijit Thosar

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Update: Here is Aman King’s article on this event.

What:Geek Night – ThoughtWorks Pune is proud to host Abhijit Thosar – Usability Guru
Date/Time: Saturday, September 20, 2pm – 4pm
Venue: GF-01 & MZ-01, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park, Yerwada, Pune Pune, Maharashtra 411006
Registration: This event is free for all, but please register here

About the Speaker – Abhijit Thosar

Abhijit has over 20 years experience in the design and development of products based on emerging technologies. He joined Human Factors International, India in 2000 and worked as a project director on over 50 usability projects for clients across domains. Abhijit now works for Capgemini Pune. His other interests include designing accessible systems and interfaces for members of the elderly and disabled population as well as designing research for products and services for upcoming markets. Abhijit is looking forward to an interactive session where he wants to share case studies from his experience.

About Geek Night:

As some of you may know, we at ThoughtWorks have been organizing something called a ‘Geek Night’ for some time now. A Geek Night is an informal gathering where we pick a hot technology topic and proceed to discuss it and learn from each others’ experience and perspectives. The meeting takes about two hours inclusive of eating/drinking (soft drinks only *wink*) and heckling the presenters. We generally plan it on Saturday evenings so that our peers from other organizations can join us too.

The topics for these Geek Nights may range from cutting-edge technologies like JRuby to proven open source tools like Hibernate or Spring. And sometimes we indulge in Code Jams where we get our laptops in the room and go about solving a problem and discuss our solutions till the food is over.

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PMI Pune meeting – “Production Support” and “Earned Value Management”

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PMI Pune Deccan-India Chapter is pleased to invite you for interesting and thought provoking seminars on:

Production Support – a Value proposition to Organizations by Mr. Prabhu K.B.

Earned Value Management – Challenges in Implementing EVM in IT organizations by Mr. Alok Khandelwal

Venue: 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

Date/Time: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 10:00 am to 12:30 pm

Topic 1: Production Support – A Value proposition to Organizations

Mr. Prabhu will present an overview of Production Support and its need. He would present different methodologies adopted in Production Support and detailed discussion of the process. The seminar would also cover benefits of Production support to Organizations and comparison between Project and Production Support.

Speaker 1: Prabhu K.B.

Mr. Prabhu comes with 17 years of rich experience in the business & operations of Banking & Investment Banking, and IT Project Management, IT Support and Service Management.

He has lead a large team of 24*7 Production Support, managing different countries & time zones and redefined the Support process. Rated as the Best “Support/Service Manager” in SCB.

He is currently heading the Global Production Support in Barclays (Barclays Technology Centre India Pvt Ltd) for its Core Baking, Treasury and Cards business is responsible for maintaining the Application Stability and Availability. He is a Management graduate from one of the reputed institutes in India is also accredited with professional certifications like PMP, ITIL and JAIIB.

Topic 2: Earned Value Management – Challenges in Implementing EVM in IT organizations

The primary objective of Project progress measurement is controlling cost, raising alarms, highlighting areas of concern and implementing corrective actions to achieve objectives of the project. For a given scope, Cost and Time are important attributes in measuring project success. Measurements should direct managers to the point that needs their attention. There are multiple challenges in implementing right measurement tools to get the information efficiently and effectively.

This seminar would provide an insight on how to implement EVM in IT organizations.

Speaker 2: Mr. Alok Khandelwal

Alok is a Mechanical Engineer from Government Engineering College Jagdalpur (CG). He is a PMI Certified Project Manager and has about 10 years of experience in IT industry. He started his career with Infosys Technologies Ltd in Pune and worked as Project Manager during his association of 8 years with them.

He is currently associated with Redknee India. Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software products, solutions and services. It provides real-time monetization and personalization products, solutions and services to over 30 mobile network operators globally. (www.redknee.com). His current responsibilities involve managing all deliveries from Pune R&D.

Note:

Monthly seminar is FREE FOR ALL / NO Entry FEE; one does not have to be Deccan Chapter member to attend this seminar.
Practicing PMPs can earn 1 to 2 PDUs (Professional Development Units) by attending this seminar.
Please share this information with other interested / your friends, they need not be Pune Deccan Chapter members.
Practicing PMPs can earn 1 to 2 PDUs by attending seminar.
Non paid members may subscribe to On Target Newsletter by paying marginal amount of Rs. 100/- Annually. All payments must be paid in advance. Checks payable to: “PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter”, Payable at: Pune, India. You may bring the check on seminar day and handover to Sangeeta Zaparde (Finance Director) OR Omkar Gurjar (Marketing & Communications Director). Please write your Name, eMail ID & Date of Subscription backside of the check.
To subscribe to PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter:

1) Visit http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/pmi-pune-chapter and click on – Join this group! button.

2) Send mail to pmi-pune-chapter-owner@yahoogroups.com with following information

Name, Personal Email, Home Phone, Mobile No, Company Name, Work Email, Work Phone, Designation, PMI Member (paid $119)? Deccan Chapter Member (paid $10)?

3) Chapter website: www.pmipunechapter.org

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POCC Meetup – How to bootstrap your startup

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What: Pune OpenCoffee Club get-together. Discussion on “How to bootstrap your startup”, followed by presentation / demo by ActiveCiti, and general networking

When: Saturday, 13 September, 4pm – 7pm

Where: SICSR, Model Colony. Here is the map.

Registration and Fees: This event is free for everyone, but you must register at http://www.activeciti.com/public/display_event.aspx?id=150878bd-cc32-102b-a8dc-e4e2bf193de6

Details:

Agenda:
4pm-5pm: Discussion: How to Bootstrap your startup
5pm-6pm: Startup Spotlight: ThinkingSpace Technologies (ActiveCiti & EventAZoo)
6pm-7pm: General Networking

Bootstrapping your startup:
We will talk about the pros and cons of bootstrapping vs. venture funding a startup. Tips and techniques on how to bootstrap. We have invited three successful Pune-based entrepreneurs who have gone through this and will guide the discussion and share their experience. The panelists have over 50 years of combined experience and about 8 startup avatars. Details of the invited panelists are given below.

Startup Spotlight:
Pune-based startup ThinkingSpace Technologies will talk about their two products, ActiveCiti (which is already up and running) and EventAZoo (which is in a pre-launch phase). They will be looking for feedback, suggestions, collaborators, etc. In addition, they will also share some experiences they had regarding copyright (somebody copied their entire product), which should be instructive for other startups.

About the invited panelists:
Anand Soman, founder of Infinishare Technologies, after having two successful startups in the past, one of which was bootstrapped, and the other one was VC-funded. His current startup is again bootstrapped.

Tarun Malaviya, CEO of Mithi, has also seen both sides of the issue, initially having presided over a successful bootstrapped phase of Mithi, and then a later VC-funded re-incarnation.

Shridhar Shukla, founder and MD of GSLab, and has used a services business to successfully bootstrap their products business.

See the PuneTech calendar for a comprehensive list of all upcoming tech events in Pune

Groovy Grails Discussion (Linux and Java meet – Sept 6)

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What: Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG) meeting followed by a discussion on Groovy – Grails with Harshad Oak (part of the Java meet by IndicThreads.)

When: Saturday, 6th September. PLUG meeting 4pm to 6pm. Harshad’s talk from 6pm to 7:30pm

Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR), 7th floor, Atur Center, Model Colony, Pune, India (Map)

Registration and Fees: The event is free for all. Register here.

Details: PLUG meeting
The PLUG meeting is open to all, there are no charges or pre-requisites to attend the meeting. If you are intrested in FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) you are welcome to the meeting. If you want to give a talk or a demo, you are welcome.

Details: Groovy – Grails Discussion
The Groovy language and the Grails framework have slowly but surely grown in prominence. Grails uses the best ideas from the Ruby on Rails world while still continuing to leverage the tried, tested and trusted Java platform as well as established frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. However there has been hardly any community behind Groovy and Grails in India. The Java meet for this month is an attempt to facilitate discussion amongst Groovy and Grails enthusiasts in Pune & India.

The Groovy – Grails meet will commence with a Grails introduction and demo by Harshad Oak. This will be followed by a discussion about the Groovy & Grails, it’s current state in India and its future prospects.

About the Speaker – Harshad Oak

Harshad is the founder of Rightrix Solutions and editor IndicThreads.com. He is the author of 3 books on Java technology and several articles. For his contributions to technology and the developer community, he has been recognized as an Oracle ACE Director and Sun Java Champion.

To initiate discussion prior to the meet or continue it after the meet, join these groups.

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Lecture series on Knowledge Representation

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What: Overview of Knowledge Representation (this is first in a series), by Prof. V.N. Jha

When: Thursday, 4th Sept, 6:30pm

Where: India International Multiversity, Sakal Nagar, Baner Road,

Registration and Fees: This event is free for everyone. There is no need to register.

Details:

This is a lecture series organized by Dr. Jha in “Knowledge Representation” using the Nyaya and Navya Nyaya techniques. Navya-Ny?ya developed a sophisticated language and conceptual scheme that allowed it to raise, analyse, and solve problems in logic and epistemology. The lecture series will be an introductory course which will cover the basics and also look at the design principles of Sanskrit, inference schemas used in Nyaya etc.

The idea here is to get a fresh perspective on Knowledge Representation and looking at how these techniques could be used in today’s IT problems ranging from better modeling in databases to better common sense representation systems.

About the Speaker – Prof. V.N. Jha

Prof. V. N. Jha is a specialist of various branches of Sanskrit learning and Navya Nyaya. All along he has been trying to promote Sanskrit studies through multi-disciplinary approaches in order to make such studies relevant to contemporary knowledge domains. He has visited several countries as visiting Professor and has delivered lectures. He has contributed over40 books and over 100 articles. Over 25 students received PhD degree under his supervision.

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