Yahoo Open Hack India : Registrations Open

Namaste! Open Hack India is back, and we’re excited to see what creative hacks the vibrant Indian developer community can come up with. This is the 13th Yahoo Open Hack event we’ve hosted globally and will be the 3rd one in Bengaluru. The event will be held on the weekend of July 24-25 at the The Taj Residency, Bengaluru.

Registration is now open.


 Due to the limited size of the venue, we will be reviewing applications for attendance and giving preference to those we believe will best be able to contribute to the development of a hack at the event. You can hack individually or in groups, but please sign-up individually.

There are two types of registration choices:

• Info Geek Those who are interested in attending the Technology Seminars and presentations on Saturday morning but not the main hack event. If you sign up here, you will be asked to leave after the tech talks end on Saturday.
• Hacker Gurus Those who are pure of heart or creative souls, love hacking up new ideas, possess entrepreneurial passions, or just want to build something for world peace…or for an overnight tech-mayhem-and-hacking-bliss. It includes the Saturday tech presentations, hacking through the night, Sunday demos, and judging.

Book your place now! You know you want to. We will send Open Hack Day Confirmed emails by the first week of July to all the selected registrations applications.

5 day Industrial Training @ SSN by Free Software Foundation

Greetings,
                The 5 day Industrial Training conducted by Free Software Foundation, TamilNadu in association with SSN Engineering College ended today with a great blast! 220+ Students attended the 5 day Training and all sessions were fabulous learning experience. Mr.Ravi Jaya (Python Session), Mr.(Linux) Baskar (Linux Installation, Dir Structure) and all other speakers were great in delivering knowledge to all students.

I need to specially thank Mr.Shanu, Mr.Praveen Chandrahas, Mr.Siddharth, Mr.Welkin, Mr.Shashan, SSN Management and all volunteers in making this event a great success. Mr.Shanu's session on FSF helped everyone to know what Free and Open Source Software is and how they can contribute. Mr.Siddharth handled enlightening session on Software Patents and FSMI. Mr.Praveen's session on Cloud and his complete presence helped all newbies to acquire clarity on many issues. Mr.Welkin's session on Downloading,Compiling and Creating Application was very interesting and informative. I (Santhosh.V) handled a session on "how to do Projects" and shared my experience with FSF, TN.

This Event has motivated and gave a clarity of thought and usage to 220+ Students where you can see many of them already started working on Linux. Projects were assigned to every college participated. Hats-Off to FSF, TamilNadu for their good Work!



-Regards,
Santhosh.V
Regional Manager, Joomla User Community- Asia, 
Student, Arunai Engineering College  

{DAY-2}- FSF, TN Conf @ SSN : Take the Plunge....Breath Free!!!

{Day-2} @ SSN started with Ajax followed by most exciting Linux Distribution Making and Hands-On lab on making Linux distros. After the lunch, we had sessions on Patents and then came the most awaited project session where each team were assigned a project under FSF and brief timelines where given to us on project submission. What's more than these fabulous sessions, we had our refreshments and concluded FSF Conf.

I really enjoyed these two days and I thank all those who were behind this initative. HariShankar (my jnr) and I had a really log drive in his Passion+ and finally he dropped me @ Guindy while other 3 guys had SSN Route Buses to drop them home.

Working Technologies into projects is more important than learing them through Workshops and Conference. In this context, FSF and SSN has helped us to work on technology rather than just learning them. I have no words explaining these days in my life rather than start working on projects told to me on these two days, which I feel is the real way in which I can thank SSN Engg college and FSF Team.

FSF Rockzz!!!