Welcome to our 4th Edition of Barcamp Chennai!

I am excited to attend the 4th edition of barcamp chennai. Plan your calendar on 27th June 2010 @ Cognizant Technologies, Okiyam, Thoraipakkam. Check this out!

Register yourself @ Barcampchennai

A New Identity for Indian Rupees! - For the Growing Economy!

Rupee is to about to join the elite league of World Economy through its new symbol! Reserve Bank of India’s Executive Director HR Khan feels a symbol for the rupee was absolutely necessary. 

“Every currency has a symbol so we thought that the Indian currency should also have a symbol. It is more of a symbolic value because we are an emerging power and most countries have some symbol with acts as an identification for the currency worldwide.”

Check these finalized 5 symbols and post your comments,

 

Cloud Computing Workshop by CSI and IEEE [at] IIT Madras

Workshop on
Cloud Computing
August 19-20, 2010 at IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Organised by

Computer Society of India
Div IV (Communication), Chennai Chapter and SIG-Grid Computing
and
IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter

Supported by
Platinum Sponsors
Yahoo, Google, HP, Amazon, IBM, HCL
Gold Sponsors
Novell, VMware, CSS Corp, Ramco, TCS

Fee & Takeaways

Industry Delegates : Rs. 1500/=
CSI / IEEE Members: Rs. 1250/=
Academic Faculty, Researchers & Students : Rs. 1250/=
CSI / IEEE Student Members : Rs. 1000/=

(Note: Students should attach copy of the membership card and also a certificate from the HOD / Principal along with registration form and payment.
Right of acceptance is reserved based on the flow of registrations)

Workshop Takeaways
Apart from the opportunity to hear the technical presentations from the Industry leaders
in Cloud Computing, each delegate will be provided with the following five items.

Workshop Kit

CD containing presentations (subject to copyright) and whitepapers,
user case studies being shared by the sponsoring organisations

AWS coupon worth USD 25 to try out Amazon Web Services

A hard copy of the book "Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach"
by Anthony T. Velte, Toby J. Velte and Robert C. Elsenpeter,
published by TMH and priced at Rs. 475/= or similar one for reference.

Certificate of Participation

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.

Join Us @ Indian Python Software Society

Greetings Everyone,

An All India Society for Python has been registered for conducting Pycon at India and to promote python in India. Everyone from novice to experts in Python are invited to join the mailing list to know the latest in the society and volunteer yourself in spreading python and Evangelizing it!

Mailing List URL:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ipss
further information about the society may be obtained here:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CategoryIndianPythonSoftwareSociety

Courtesy: Thanks to kg for his invite in Ilug Mailing List!

Wordpress 3.0 : Out of the Box!

With the release of Wordpress 3.0, Everyone are excited to upgrade their blogs to this latest version and this post will let you know some cool features of this new flavor which is worth a try!

Here are some of the highlights of the Wordpress 3.0:

• WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation.
• New default theme "Twenty Ten" takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
• New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
• Custom header and background APIs.
• Contextual help text accessed under the Help tab of every screen in the WordPress administration.
• Ability to set the admin username and password during installation.
• Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the process.
• Support for shortlinks.
• Improved Custom post types and custom taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support. (Try the Custom Post Type UI or GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools plugins to see the possibilities.)
• A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.

The Open Source Entreprenuer

BBC talks to Bob Young, the co-founder of Red Hat: "Bob Young is a self-confessed contrarian with a strong desire to change the world by allowing people to share and collaborate. The approach has served him well and has helped turn the Canadian into a multi-millionaire."