Biggest Event for StartUps - StartUpCity 2010: Bangalore

Hey,

Just wanted to let you know about an exciting event siliconindia is organizing on May 29 & 30, 2010 in Bangalore.

Limited seats. Register FREE: http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity2010

Roll up your Sleeves. Meet over 100 cool startups. Learn new Technologies; Watch live product demonstrations; Get a peek into cutting edge technologies; Lay hands on the best-of-breed solutions; Meet young, energetic, passionate geeks; Experience the culture of innovation in small companies; Listen to Visionary Keynotes and In-depth Panel Discussions

Come. Meet the Startups that will become tomorrow's industry leaders.

Here's you chance to meet and hear inspiring entrepreneurial story from Krishnakumar Natarajan, co-founder, CEO & MD of Mindtree and Bharat Goenka, Co-Founder & MD of Tally Solutions

Heads of Dell India, Sage India, Mphasis will talk about building next generation technology companies from India.

Founders of startup companies like SMSCountry, 123 Greetings.com, Manthan Systems, Ittiam, Jade Magnet will talk about concept to success and idea to revenue.

You also get to hear interesting discussions on Mistakes entrepreneurs make when approaching VCs and Best Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in 2010, Angel Money and many others from leading venture capitalists like IDG Ventures, Intel Capital, Helion, Clearstone, NEA-IndoUS Ventures.

This is undoubtedly the biggest event for startups.

There are limited seats. You can register yourself for FREE at: http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity_09/index.html

Thanks
V.Santhosh

ChennaiPy Workshop Tomorrow @ MIT, Chrompet

Greetings Everyone,

Tomorrow there is a session planned @ MIT, Chrompet by ChennaiPy UG. I am happy that ChennaiPy is doing their activities in fairly good manner as I am seeing them from their start. I believe a good number of audience tomorrow and  wish I would attend. Here are the details. Come and Get Started with Python.

Date: 22-05-2010
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Venue: NRCFOSS, AU-KBC Research Center,
            MIT, Chrompet

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> Talk 1    : Introduction to Python
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> Speaker : Balakrishnan, BCA Student, Sri Sankara Arts & Science College
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> Duration : 30 min
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> Talk 2     : ncurser in Python
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> Speaker  : Arulalan, MCA Student, Saveetha Engineering College
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> Talk 3      : Introduction to Scipy and Scilab
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> Speaker  : Jai Sathishkumar, M.Tech Student, Anna University
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> Talk 4     : Introduction to PyGTK Programming
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> Speaker : Rajeswari, NRCFOSS
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Meet U [at] ChennaiPy!!!

Mozilla Devday 2010 ' Bangalore : 27th Feb : Live Blogging

Mozilla
Arun Ranganathan, Technology Evangelist
Ragavan Srinivasan, Product Managaer, Mozilla
Seth Bindernagel, Director, Localization, Mozilla
Vineel Reddy, MCR, Community Marketting,
Lucian Teo and John Britton, Drumbeat Initiative, Mozilla

Mahiti
Sree Rameshaiah, executive Director,
Chethan Elvis, Marketting Director,
Sara Baptiste Brown, social Business Coordinator, Mahiti

Center of Internet Society
Sunil Abhram

Mozz Drumbeat Session:
The Future of the Internet

Session :2 The Embracing Web Platform -Arun Ranganathan'
What's good Platform?
Speed-->
JS Performance Wars
Power-->
Device Capabilities
Deployed at scale
Beauty-->
Make Users say wow!


what's In the Web?
Faster JS than Ever
Better Mashup Capabilities
2D and 3D Drawing Capabilities
Virtualized Storage
Device Integration
No Plugins Needed

Integrating with File System
Better File Analysis Capabilities in web pages
File API Support
(exif data ->Geo Tags)

Power: a Look at better Mashups
1.AJAX
2.Mashup have to be safe
3.Cross-site XMLHttpRequest with CORS Headers
4. IE8, XHttpRequest with CORS Headers
5. TweetPics

Make Data Location Aware
1. GeolocationAPI in browsers
2. navigator.geolocation supported in chrome (API)
(FF 3.3.6)
3. Google service SSID Wifi Spot -Mechanism of picking signals and identify location . -> GeoIP is collected and manipulated

Beauty
HTML5 and CSS3
1. Support for CSS3 @font-face in IE,Opera, FF and others (link the fonts across the server)
Case Study :TypeKit.com
Business based Open Fonts

Drawing 2D
HTML, JS(reading keyboard i/p), Canvas

Orientation Events
DOM Events Model: MozOrientation
Accelerometer

Then, There's Video
out-of-the box Vieo Capabilities
HTML5 ->
Codec remains contentious
h.264 codec ->flash propertiary

theora
ogg     -> open Standards


Demos: Green Screen
or light blue

CSS3 and SVG Powered Demo

Dynamic Content Injection - Demo

WebGL :Bringing 3D to CAnvas
OpenGL ES2.0 and share-based
An API "on top" of underlying Hardware
Demos: Toy car, 

Keep in touch! arun@mozilla.com
there are no foolish questions, only fools who do not question.

Session :3 By Seth

• Out of process plugins (OOPP)
• Better startup time
• Jetpacks support
• Theme updates
• Extension Manager Redesign
• Tab Matches in Awesome Bar
• Weave integration
• Integrated Developer Tools
• Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects

Firefox 3.7 and next Firefox 4.0
catch the ppt @ http://people.mozilla.com/~sethb/BangaloreDevDay/Firefox.Next.html

Sponsor Event: Mahiti.org

Convene is the key project and hacking is better, how postgrey is better than Oracle...Applied Engg and pure Engg, Conducting FOSS Workshops and TTP

There are three main categories of workshops.
1.Source Camps :
Source Camps are week-long workshops that focus on the use of free and open source software (FOSS) in the non-profit sector. They create opportunities for practical learning and skills exchange. An emphasis on community building, which runs through everything from content design and delivery to the agenda and location, makes Source Camps an unforgettable experience. The relationships created during the workshops last long beyond the week of the Camp.

2.General Workshops:
These are generally 2 -3 day workshops where the selected participantsi would like to gain an insight into open source and use this knowledge in migration.Some of these participants might be already familiar with open source but would like more information about the topics being covered.

3.Custom Workshops :
These are special workshops custom made for customers on request.These organizations had either attended our source camps or non-residential workshops and would like to effectively deploy open source technologies at the workplace more effectively.One example would be the custom training programmes we conduct at the Centre for Women's Development and Research. ( www.cwdr.org.in ) ,These have been highly effective in helping the organization migrate effortlessly from proprietary tools to open source.We did the migration ourselves and trained the staff on use of the tools effectively.

Topics which can be requested for these workshops could be anything from Linux OS to alternatives to MS Office and Outlook.Video and audio editing tools are also covered on request.

Please contact us with your requirements and we would be glad to assist you.
Our email is ngoinabox@mahiti.org  .
Click here for our postal address and phone numbers.

Patents and Copyrights by CIS-India
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) ->alternate innovation.
OGG theora, Dirac, (and maybe On2's VPS)
Microsoft ->covering custom XML
Blackberry -> 615 million

Mozilla Labs : Raghavan
a virtual lab where people integrate and participate in bringing innovation
1994 (2001-Wikipedia) Mosaic Web Browser

geode, snowl, ubiquity, weave, Personas, jetpack, test pilot, bespin

The web is personal
User <--> Producers
The web Platform
Innovation Services

Weave Sync
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Encrypted Data in client-side
Full  Browser Sync
Use Mozilla's Server or your own
Extend, Customise

Demo : Weave Sync


https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Developer -> Documentation and Weave API Spec, Library for using Firefox data across all other devices.

You--> Identity
Account Manager : Connecting to Site very easy and consistent

Demo: People on the Web
web Finger is protocol, Activity Sreams, OpenID, OAuth, OAuth-WARP
Creating our own personas and become an approver.

Jetpack ->HTML, JS, CSS (Powerful FF Add-Ons)
Web-based, Secure, Robust, Extensible

Bespin -Web Based Code Editor

Design Challenge--> Mock-Up an idea for Firefox Product Team, Prototype, Design and bring in ideas into reality.
Video Presentation posted by raghavan
Speaker: Alex Faaborg, Mozilla Design Team-->Design Challenge from Mozilla open to new ideas to leverage FF!!!:) Concept Series-> Design Challenge for Firefox 4.0 "The Home Tab"
http://bit.ly/degign-challenge

Check out Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar

Title: Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar
Link: http://www.saveourtigers.com/JoinTheRoar.phpion

I am really unhappy to hear that we have only 1411 tigers all-togethere in India. Lets participate in this Project and help people get aware of this issue and we need strong support from all to save our tiger resource of our Nation.

{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!!!

FSF Conference @ SSN {DAY-1} - An Splendid Start

It was 6:15AM, 5th December, 2009 when I started from my home to take the Route Bus to SSN. I reached the college @ 8:15AM and the Greens and aesthetic beauty of the campus greeted me as I entered. I was joined by 4 of my college guys (my jrs) and we made ourself present at Mini-Auditorium for the sessions.

Previewing Big-Bucks Bunny Movie the session began by a fabulous talk from Mr.Siddharth (Core FSF Member, Cognizant Employee). His talk helped us to know better what Free S/w is and what Open Source software is. He explained how important not to patent our innovation, as it prevents development of Science for the next 20 years from our date of patent. His talk made us to visualize the generations of human development from primitive-industrial-modern.

Next we had a talk from Mr.Praveen Chandrahas, IITian aand FSF Promoter, where he briefed out Filesystem and their implementation and steped down Ubuntu Installation process.

We had an Community person from Tamil Computing Team, Ubuntu Mr.Thangamani Arun briefing us on Android Architecture and its SDK's. He showcased a demo on how to work on Android Development Toolkit in Eclipse IDE and to use a Emulator.

Android session was followed by Shell Scripting by Mr.Bharathi Subramanian, FOSS Evangelist, ILUG Team. This session was really gr8 as I explored the basics of SHELL programming. I will surely work on this scripting a lot more than just listening to it.

We were served with refreshments in-between the sessions and {DAY-1} was really excellent. Tomorrow {DAY-2}, I am waiting for even more exciting stuffs @ FSF.

FSF RockZZZ!!!

All you wanted to know about hacking!!!

Hacking has always inspired me from my schooling, and knowing on it from an Computer Security Consultant Ankit Fadia, who at the age 15 wrote his book on 'Ethical Hacking' is still more awakening..Here are the questions put to Ankit and his views on them...

When did you realise that you could hack?

I got interested in hacking at 12, but it took a while before I figured out how to do it. My first hack was quite interesting. I defaced a magazine site and put my own profile, pictures and e-mail id on it. But then I thought I might get into trouble, so I sent a mail to the editor with the solution on how to prevent hacking the website. He got back to me with a job offer but when he learnt that I was 13, he asked me to wait till I turned 18. I learnt my lesson. I never did an illegal hack after that.

Is hacking cool because it allows entry into forbidden territory?

It is. It gives you the power to do something that most people can't do, that too in the confines of your room. It gives a false sense of security.

What exactly is 'ethical hacking'?

You need to have the same knowledge as cyber criminals, but you put that knowledge to positive use. You go to sites, find out their flaws and correct them. I coined the term when I wrote my first book, Ethical Hacking, at 15.

You have worked with the FBI too. Isn't that a heady feeling?

I started working with them at 16, when a Pakistani group was planning to attack an Indian site. I traced the chat transcript and the site was saved. Then, this was like a game for me. But now I realise that there's a lot of responsibility involved in what I do.

Why did you take up the show, What The Hack?

Last year, I won the MTV Youth Icon award and was introduced to the programming head of the channel. I asked him if they wanted to do a show on hacking. They agreed. There are lots of channels which air tech shows that review technology and gadgets. But this show stands out because we teach people cool things that they can do in the virtual world.

Give us some tips on how to become good hackers?

You have to know the programming well and also think like a criminal. You have to get into the criminal's mind to become a security system expert.

-An Interview by Yahoo India