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Sprout IT 09: SCIT Entrepreenurship Cell Launch.

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There are unleashed talents waiting to sprout, tired rainmakers who are striving for an opportunity to start their own ventures and there are some truly enlighten souls who believe they have something more to offer in this world.

If you aspire to own your competitive advantage, challenge the conventional thinking and be a part of revolution and want to be a trailblazer in the Information Technology and Management field, look no further than Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Leadership Forum (ITELF) at SCIT. We provide an opportunity to discover and nurture the entrepreneurial spirits.

SCIT is known for creating global IT professionals who are trained to be leaders and unleash their entrepreneurial spirit. ITELF is an endeavor of SCIT that works as a catalyst for nurturing entrepreneurial talents; it is also a resource centre creating awareness relating to entrepreneurship and leadership in education and also providing direction relating to entrepreneurship development and management.

We welcome the alliances with government department, industry, professional bodies like NASSCOM, the national entrepreneurship network, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Academia world and other independent entrepreneurs. Queries and expression of interests can be sent at itelf@scit.edu.

Co ordinators

Saurabh Mishra [9730081077], Kanupriya Kejriwal [9730081817] and Ranjeet Mohan [9922369417].

Breakfast with mozilla

Got an opportunity to have breakfast with Mozilla guys run Ranganathan, Mozilla Tech Evangelist, and Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localization for Mozilla and attend a session. I never knew that there was so much more with Mozilla other than the Firefox. Mozilla firefox is just the tip of the ice berg and in firefox too there is loot more under the hood than meets the eye.

Seth majorly talked about the Mozilla business model and where they generate the revenue from. He also talked about the various application developed on the Mozilla platform and gave us some quick demonstration.

Arun showed us the major of the tech stuff and how the video is becoming the mainstream content for the web and how javasript has evolved from being considered a toy language to a powerful scripting language that can help the browsers in providing a never before experience to the end user. Arun also showed us a demonstration on Bespin which is a web based IDE and Scalar vector graphics for the web.

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The crowd consisted of Mozilla fans aging under a year to people in late 40s.

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Also got to meet Amit, the peron behind One Laptop per Child – India initiative.

In all it was an awesome experience for me. Detailed write up for the event coming up soon.

TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations

As you might know Twitter accepts more than just basic text. The service is UTF8 compatible which means that instead of tweeting “I love you” you could just as well use “I ♥ you”. Or how about this:

“I’m going to ✈ to ☭ in the morning after I make a ☎ to make sure my ♂ is ✔ with it. ✌ for now and don’t forget to ✍ and lets have ♨ soon!”

But how do you remember all these damn characters?

Aha!

TwitterKeys is a small tool we (@boris & @sandervdv) developed here at The Next Web Blog which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter. These are the symbols we currently provide:

Drag this link to your browser
bookmarks toolbar: TwitterKeys

Now go and share this with your friends on Twitter…

NULL Event 2 @ SCIT Pune

Null second event which is a continuation of the first event at I2IT was at SCIT and was about Evading Firewalls: Tunneling and Application security:codeinjection.

Aseem Jakar and Murtuja Bharmal- the founders of the community talked to the students and pros present there and presented practicaly how to code inject an application by exploiting a buffer overflow and how to evadea filrewall by tunnelling where in you can use a covert channel to browse internet by using jsut icmp ping packets or log in to a shell using ssh bu encapsulating it in ICMP packet.

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My Experience @ Ideacamp Pune 2

January 16, 2009… Attended the classes whole day long and then a meeting with ITELF [Information Technology Entrepreneurship and leadership Forum] till 0030 hrs and then had to goto POC lab to help out a friend as they had some issues with the setup. In tha lab was reminded that I had to be there at IdeaCamp at SICSR the next day and for that I had to leave by 0715 bus as I was one of the unorganizers. I thought that i might skip this time [my very first time] but left the decision to be taken in the morning. Left the lab at 0230 and still was not sure to go or not. Went to my hostel and slept the moment I fell on bed. Dont know how I woke up at 0700 and then got ready just in time to catch the 0715 bus and was at the venue after 30 minutes or so… had to waut there till 0930 for others to arrive. Then on it was just fun meeting with peeople and getting to know them and their ideas.
People came up with cool ideas as Idea Framework which talked about how to develop an Idea and then there was a presentation by PlanetAikon who provides a platform for the ideas to be developed into products. There were various ideas for the community benifit like Disaster management, Green bags, Green IT, Community Wireless Networks and Service on Mobiles. There was a unique idea by Navin Kabra [ a pune technologist ] about Pune blogs.
It was my first itme presenting a Idea. Mine was the Community wireless networks and i was taken very positively and the response was too good for a presenter like me. I had been thinking about it since long and the inspiration has been the socalfreenet.org, I camr to know about it when I was going throught the book called Wireless Hacking…
My overall experince at Ideacamp was very good. Being an organizer is a nice job and guess from now on I wud always be wanting to be a part of the organizing team. It allowed me to meet many different personalities who have immense experience in their doamin as well as life and it is these people who stand by students or newbies like us to guide our way when we are totally clueless what to do next.

Will Tata’s Nano come out to play on Republic day?

Tata Nano has been the much awaited car since last year and the interest of the people in Nano has only increased. The word is in the air that Tata’s may be making the symbolic statement this Republic Day.

According to highly placed sources at top Tata Dealers “Yes we have inputs that clearly indicate that Nano will roll out on 26 January. We are preparing for that and people are optimistic about it. There is an unending customer list registered for Nano and whenever booking starts these customers will get top priority”.

“Tata will debut Nano in the first quarter of 2009 at any cost but there is no surety of the exact date. January 26 may be the best day for the roll out as it has national significance” said Adil Jal Daukhanwala, Editor in Chief, Times Zigwheel

Internal sources in the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) claim that Nano has cleared ARAI tests in October.

Another highly placed TATA source thinks January 26 too early for the roll out, however the call will definitely hit the market before March.

Roadblocks faced by TATA’s Nano

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sourced from Pune Mirror issue dated Jan 3, 2009.

New year bash NITI’10

Welcoming this New Year was a blast. The craziest of the crazy NITI peeps went out to freak out to Builder’s farm to freak out. The party was organized by the ex CR and current PLC member Shreeji Doshi. Builder as a host was helped in logistics by Sumtya, the heartthrob of the class.

It was a dark night and we all had the best of intentions to light it up to welcome the new year. It took us a few days to plan the much awaited class (well not all of us) trip to some remote place (the place was not to remote but as all the cell phones stopped working except for chacha’s it was) to have fun. The effort done by the peeps to get the classes cancelled for the party, the booking of the bus, arrangement for the food and booze it was all great fun. The time in the bus was real fun and once we reached the place we never even in our dreams had thought that it would be such a beautiful place. The environment was awesome. The farm house on the top of a hill with trees and farms all around and the lit up sky above us was a mesmerizing experience for all of us.

The next thing was the food that we had to make for us to eat. The BBQ was awesome and well maintained by Mr. Doubtfire, Nandi, Chungfoo and Sir John. Well it took a lot of time and effort to light up the fire but the result was worth it. The DJ was Kinji Baby who played some good and some very horrible songs. By the time the clock had struck midnight, the beginning of the New Year, two of the warriors were down and the rest were in full swing. Then followed the round of hugs and wishes for the New Year were flowing in the air.

I was out for the later part of the morning and when I woke up there were a lot many new stories to hear and believe me they all were funny and crazy in themselves.

We drove around the area till the noon and had fun in a dam reservoir where chacha lost Kinji’s specks in the pool and thanks to the rescue team to look for it under water and get it back to the poor fellow.

Then followed the brunch and we all were back to the house to have fun…. Rest all was fun and the returning was the good time……

All was good and went well. All enjoyed a lot and had one helluva time except for Akka…. But she must have had some fun…

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2oo9

GO GO 2008

COME COME 2009

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I’ve played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 09

IdeaCampPune2 January 17, 09

IdeaCampPune2

When: January 17, 2009

Where: To be identified

 

About IdeaCampPune2

We are gearing up for the second edition of IdeaCampPune. This is a self-organized gathering to share ideas and see them shape by applying divergent thinking. The objective of the camp is to get people from different roles like designers, entrepreneurs, financers, creative minds, technology evangelists, product managers and marketers together to bandy ideas from everyone’s viewpoint. Ideally by end of the gathering we should have ‘proof of potential’ for our ideas.

 

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Sponsors

If IdeaCampPune makes business sense to your organization, please come forward to make this event run smooth.

 

Potential Ideas

There is no restriction to what ideas you come up with except that it should make business sense and is useful to at least a group of people. You can share with the community how your idea solves an identified problem or serve any observed need.

You can queue the ideas continually on this page and in case we get more ideas flooding, then the participants will decide which ones to discuss.