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• Firefox VS Chrome: Open Discussion

Prashanth, hnprashanth AT gmail DOT com, Control Enter

 Calling all Firefox lovers & Chrome fans to battle it out!! I am for FF, let's see who wins!

• Challenges of Delivering Rich Media, Dynamic Transactions and Applications over the Internet

Sriyansa Dash; Dileep Mouleesha [ksathura [at] akamai.com

 Has the Internet infrastructure kept pace? As the Internet is rapidly evolving as an important channel 
 to sell, inform, entertain, and conduct the business online, traffic loads and performance requirements 
 have increased dramatically. This session will discuss the evolution of the Internet, key challenges 
 faced and implications for businesses. As end-user consumption of content on mobile devices reaches 
 critical mass, We will also discuss the current state of the Mobile Internet.

• Desktop application designing and prototyping

Sarthak Singhal (sarthaksinghal@hotmail.com), Arun Kaza, Vishakha Vaidya, Eugene Jude

  The session will use one of Adobe's software called Fireworks and AIR. 
  A live demo will be done to prototype desktop application and preview it working.

• Introducing Social Commerce

Chandan Maruthi, chandan.maruthi [at] gmail.com storrz.com

The science of Social networks has just begun to be understood. A majority of decisions that we take are influenced
by our social environment. Commerce too happens to be a Social and contextually driven activity yet least influenced
by social influences online. E-Commerce 2.0 is claimed to be social commerce. In this collective we explore social commerce.
Social Discover, Social Commerce, Marketplaces, Social Marketplaces .

• Performance Engineering of Web 2.0 Applications

Er. Abhishek Parolkar, abhishek.parolkar.com

 A Web 2.0 Technologist's view on handling performance issues. A quick look at almost everything
 that affects performance ranging from way of programming(Event Driven) to adoption of cloud
 computing. A run through opensource benchmarking tools and steps to build better cloud computing 
 environments. 
 PS: I am not going to talk about Amazon's EC2, S3 or ... But on possibility of building your own 
 Elastic Computing Environment.
 Tentative Talk Schedule: 14th Sept

• Next Generation Networking

Jayanth S,Ashim Roy jayanth@amonks.in, amonks.in, stoke.com

  A small preview of what "Next Generation Networking" has in store for us..Also a Small Preview of STOKE SSX3000

• Introducing OWASP

Harinath Pudipeddi

 The OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a global not-for-profit organization working towards 
 contributing to Web Security. This project has started in 2002 and since then has gained phenomenal acceptance 
 across the globe. OWASP workds towards Web Security Education and Open Source Projects for Web Application. 
 The OWASP has quite a few publications to its credit including Developers Guide, Testing Guide and the Top 10 
 Security Vulnerabilities. The OWASP Top 10 is well accepted as a standard across the world. Please visit 
 www.owasp.org to get more information regarding the Project.

• Introducing feedJoint

Goldy, goldy [at] feedJoint.com

Do you feel visiting 100s of sites and tracking them in an organized way is a pain? 
Explore the solution that I created for myself and people like me and potentially yourself...
Lets explore the creative ways of leveraging a solution that is going to change the way we see the web. 
Its free, fast and easy to start building your own Joint. Registration

Keeping close track with BCB 7? You may like to visit just one place -> BCB7 Tracker

• Google Open Social

Peeyush Gulati, peeyushgulati [at] gmail {dot} com Sharmishtha Gupta sharmishtha{dot}gupta [at] gmail{dot}com

   As a brief introduction OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across
   multiple  websites.With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a   
   social network's friends and update feeds.
   This talk would highlight on understanding the concepts behind OpenSocial along with an insight  
   on integrating OpenSocial in your present applications. Along with that we would be 
   demonstrating  on, how you can write your own opensocial compliance gadgets.

• Breaking Google Open Social Applications

Parasuraman (dy-verse.blogspot.com) and Anshuman

 A discussion and demo on the possible attacks on existing Opensocial applications and way to mitigate them.

• Shindig - OpenSocial Container

Bipin Upadhyay, projectbee.org

This talk aims to provide a high level overview of Shindig - the OpenSocial container, which comes
in two flavors - PHP and Java. Instead of going into language specific details, this talk aims to
help you get started with transforming a general social network into an OpenSocial complaint
social network.

• Python 3.0 - Where we break all your code

abhinav{dot}sarkar{@}gmail{dot}com

  A discussion about the next major release of Python programming language - version 3.0 -
  and its new features and incompatibilities with the 2.x line of versions.
  1. S.Krishnakumar | kumar.sange@gmail.com |
  The presentation given during this talk can be seen here: Image:BCB7-Python3.0.pdf

• Firefox indic localization

Arjun, arjunaraoc [at] gmail [dot] com, tech4society.blogspot.com

 Firefox 3.0 was released with only couple of indic languages couple of months back. More 
 indic languages are planned  to be released with Firefox 3.0.2. Let us explore how to get
 involved in localization and share tips to keep the momentum and deal with issues. New
 technologies that propose to  enhance   localization experience or standardization of words
 for a language will be covered.  Venue: L21 Time: 14 Sep 2008 12:00 Noon to 12:45PM; 
 See firefox 3.0.2 indic, Firefox Telugu localization

• Torrent (P2P) in Digital Multimedia Distribution

Viral, viralsachde [at] gmail [dot] com, sachde.com

 A session on P2P technology in Digital Multimedia Distribution, specifically torrent client and
 ip-stb with torrent support.

• Free and Social applications in Location Based Service (LBS)

Raghul, raghulj [at] gmail [dot] com,

Lets discuss on LBS. How LBS can be made as a free service? Societal applications in LBS.

• Project Eduvid

Join a novel mission to give a new form on educational content which is easy to create and take low bandwidth to transfer. Narendra Sisodiya - http://Eduvid.TechFandu.org find my presentation slides is at http://www.slideshare.net/narendra.sisodiya/project-eduvid-presentation visit main website for demo.

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• Rethinking technology strategy for non-technology firms

Kiran Jonnalagadda, Program Manager, Comat, jace at pobox dot com

 If your organisation is tech-dependent but operates in a non-technology
 industry (anything from retail to social non-profit), then your approach
 to technology is most likely one of partnering with a firm that does it for
 you, or perhaps of choosing standard components from reputed vendors
 and hiring someone to integrate it all.

 This session will attempt to examine this strategy and make suggestions
 for better approaches. It will start as a presentation on typical scenario
 and proceed to a group discussion.

 The session lead works in rural information services, a niche of the retail
 industry, and will be presenting from practical approach.

• Mac, iPhone, Leopard and Beyond

Preetham Venkky - Chief Catalyst - Catalyst Labs Inc, idea.couture [at] gmail {dot} com

 So, the iPhone finally got released with a prohibitive cost. What is the speculative Apple's
 strategy in India. Where does Apple plan to go from here? What does White Leopard have
 in store? Why switching to a Mac is far simpler than you think?
 All these questions and more answered by an Apple Techvangelist.
 Please feel free to add your name to the list below:
 1. S.Krishnakumar | kumar.sange@gmail.com |

• E-Learning: The Reality and the Future

100rabh Minni, saurabh(.)(dot)minni at Gm@!L(dot)com

  Elearning paradigm as of now and how to take if forward. How to make it more interesting and valuable, for all subjects.
  1. Vid | vid-AT-svaksha-DOT-com | http://www.svaksha.com
  2. S.Krishnakumar | kumar.sange@gmail.com |
  3. Rajeev Kumar raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com
  4. <your name,email,blog/website> (please add your name & keep the line)

• Live Web Casting

Parun, parun@zenovainfotech.com, www.JollyEvents.com

 This session is going to cover how you can personally benefit from Live Web Cast and Live Web Streaming.
 How many of you could not attend your friends or colleague or relative personal events like marriage?
 Or How many of you disappointed by your friends/ colleague, not attended your marriage even though you 
 have invited them? Reasons or excuses for not attending your personal events (Marriages) are many.
 Now you can view and send wishes, gifts to couples online, and that too Live!

• The Power of Excel

Lakshman Prasad, becomingguru.com

 Illustration of Excel formula, functions, pivots, macros-vbe, interfacing web, auto-downloading html-web-tables,
 Generating and posting web queries. Demonstration of some quick hacks yet very useful applications- A strategy 
 application, Event Organizing app, Web-app query generator. Excel is an incredibly powerful tool which can be 
 used to perform a lot of tasks, quick and fast. In the session, I intend to quickly introduce some basic concepts 
 and move into several advanced features.

• Three Success Stories in going from bootstrapped to Venture funded

Mukund Mohan, www.bestengagingcommunities.com

 You have an idea, not much money, but you decided to go heads down and build your product. 
 What's next? How do you prepare for the "external investor"? How do you structure your company? 
 What about stock options? What to look for in your term sheet? How to research which VC's to pitch to? 
 We'll take 3 examples and discuss their strategies to success.

• VC vs Customer: Open Discussion

Kesava Reddy, reddy dot kesava dot m AT gmail DOT com

 Calling all startup people who are looking for funding. Customer or VC who is first? Whom should you go after?

• Tracking Technology Trends

dorai@thodla.com, MyBlog Links to Resources and Presentation

 Trend is your friend. Tracking short and long term trends help you increase your awareness of your industry. 
 In this session we will talk about some trends and how you can glean opportunities for your start-up. We will 
 also look at some of the tools you can use.

• Mobile VAS in India - Key statistics and a peek into the future

Ashish [at] pluGGd.in

  Will go through some key stats/value chain in Mobile VAS and lets talk about what future holds (context: 3G/iPhone)

• Wireless Telecom - Challenges and Opportunities

Devadas Pai, devadas.nct@gmail.com Sadanand Vaidya, sadanand.nct@gmail.com

 While Indian Telecom industry has become one of the fastest growing in the world, we have many challenges 
 and opportunities in Telecom in the areas of service and product development. The wireless telecom vendors 
 are looking at Indian Market to drive the growth of this Industry. To add to this, India has the cheapest 
 tariff for mobile communication service. With the entry of new 2G and 3G network in India, there is a huge 
 opportunity to create platform for collaboration and provide cost effective solution.

• Make Money blogging - sponsored Content A-Z

Bharadwaj [at] TeraOm

  While adsense succeeds long time, Make money with a blog with sponsored content in less than a month. 

The tricks and tips of the trade. A-Z. You can even buy a blog from the tailor made websites to get started. Some experience in blogging and time are the only requisites)

• Bridging the Industry - Academia Gap through Facilitated Project Management

Balarama K. Varanasi, PMP
Project Management Consultant and
President and Founder, The Philosophical Society of Perspective Independence (PSPI) 
balaramakv@yahoo.com, 09848057562

This session describes the experiment of PSPI(a social organization committed to Promoting Project Management 
in Academia) and School of Management Studies (SMS), JNTU, Hyderabad. This excercise facilitates 
interaction between Startups and the third semester MBA students with an objective of modeling the 
needs of Startups into appropriate themes for Student Projects. We request the Startups to help us in 
shaping this experiment, and also benefit from our Professional Trainings based on Global Standard in Project Management, 
and our sincere attempts to bridge the Gap through a professional approach,which is scalable, replicable 
and economically self sufficient. See you at the session for details.

• Get your emails on mobile - http://mobee.in

Dashrath Bitla(CEO), 
Naga Harish Kanegolla(Sr Software Developer)

This session describes how the mobee works and how general users can use it.
Will describe how you can get emails from Yahoo, GMAIL etc into mobile.
Will also describe all the activities in Mobee like SEND, READ, REPLY, REPLYALL, BLOCK, UNBLOCK etc.,

[edit] Society

• EmpoweringIndia.org - Compiling Candidate Affidavit Data - Building a Vibrant Polity

Zainab Bawa

• Cycling to work

Pradeep B V, pradeep [at] mapunity [dot] in, cycling.bikeszone.com, Bangalore Bikers Club

  This will be interactive session trying to find out the pros and cons of cycling/biking to work. 
  I request other bikers out there who commute to office by bikes to come over and help me out in this session.
  Annex: Touring on Bicycles - Things you need to think about.

  We will try to address the most common questions like
  1. Is it safe? How can you ride a bicycle in such a mad traffic? 
  2. How to reach before office bus, boss' car and colleagues motor-bike?
  3. How do you take care of the stink due to sweating it out on the way to office?
  4. Where can I buy bikes and accessories?
  5. Where can I meet other bikers who bike to work regularly?
  6. Common mistakes to avoid when you start cycling after ages.
  7. Locks, locks, locks. How to keep it safe?
  8. Basic DIYs courtesy BOTS
  9. What/how to buy - frame size, saddle height, road vs mountain...
  10. Have a dekko at a few cool bikes.
 
  If you are bike2work kinda person and want to help out in this session, add <your name,email,blog/website> below:
  1. Shree Kumar {gmail} shree DOT shree, un-blog at http://www.shreekumar.in/ 
  2. Swaroop, swaroop (at) swaroopch.com, http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/category/cycling/
  3. Varun, varun (at) varunprabhakar.com, http://www.varunprabhakar.com
  4. Vikram Chadaga, vikram (at) chadaga.com, http://www.chadaga.com
  5. Vivek Tulsidas, tulsidas DOT vivek (at) gmail DOT com , blog at http://tulsidas.wordpress.com
  6. supreeth, hallidude(at)gmail(dot)com
  7. Krishna Prasad, srinivasan DOT kp(at)gmail(dot)com
  8. Sukrit D, sukritd @ sevenacross(dot)com, http://sevenacross.com/ http://pondicity.com
  9. Kumar.A.P.P, thevolts@gmail.com, http://sparsham.com/category/environment/
  10. Naimisha, redsilkroute[at]gmail[dot]com, http://dreamsinmagenta.blogspot.com/ 
  11. Sameer Shisodia, get.sameer[-AHT-]gmail.com, http://bangalorekaapi.blogspot.com/search/label/bike
  12. Mallika, maliika DOT skp(at)gmail(dot)com
  13. Prasant Mohanty, prasmohanty DOT in (at)gmail(dot)com
  14. Abhijith B Rao, abhi (at) bikeszone (dot) com, http://cycling.bikeszone.com
  15. Arun Raghavan, arunissatan {yat] gmail, http://nemesis.accosted.net/
  16. <Srikanth,srikanth.hn(at)gmail(dot)com> 
  17. Subramanya, subramanya.ks{AT}gmail{dot}com 
  18. <your name,email,blog/website> (please add your name & keep the line)

  Additionally, please add to the list below about what kind of bike you'd be coming to the venue in --
  1. Hero Thunder MTB (modified)
  2. Trek 4300D (dirty frame)
  3. Hero Thunder MTB (parts upgraded) 
  4. Firefox 
  5. Hercules Apex (plain vanilla bike) 
  6. Merida MATTS SUB 40-V
  7. Giant Peleton 7000
  8. Hero Hawk Nu Age with a blow horn
  9. Hero Thunder MTB (Modified)
  10. Trek 4500/ Trek 6000 
  11. Merida SUB 40-V (little piece of heaven)
  12. Firefox Cyclone 
   13. <your-bike> (please add your bike & keep the line)

• Craft Industry in India

Nischala Agnihotri, nischalagnihotri@gmail.com, bharatentrepreneurship.blogspot.com

 ...their export market reaction and involvement of rural India.

• RSI - What a Pain in the Wrist

Guillaume Marceau

 Repetitive Stress Injury is the pain you feel when you type too much.
 RSI is hard to treat. Joins are notoriously bad healers and overall 
 not very well understood.  Nevertheless, it is possible to recover from
 RSI, or better yet, to avoid it altogether.

• Election Watch and Transparency in Politics

Sridhar Pabbisetty (psridharp@gmail.com) and Prof. Trilochan Sastry (trilochans@iimb.ernet.in) kew2008.wordpress.com, adrindia.org

  1. A discussion on the recent CIC order allowing people access to the audited financial statements of the political parties
     obtained under RTI.
  2. Process of election watch for a few of the recent elections. In particular recent Karnataka state Elections.
  3. Discuss about the plans for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
  4. During the recent karnataka elections we were able to work with Mapunity to bring about interesting views using the data
     from Election Watch at www.karnatakaelections.in. We would like to explore possibilities of working with more such
     applications and also bloggers to take this data forward. 
  Do visit the blog to get a glimpse of the election watch reports for Karnataka.
  Please feel free to add to this discussion list on items that may be of relevance to get the best of this topic. We would be
  glad not to confine this talk just to the activities of ADR and Election Watches but also other possible interventions to 
  make democracy better.

Please find A] Report in Kannada http://indiandemocracy.googlegroups.com/web/KEW+report+Kannda+final.pdf B] Report in English http://indiandemocracy.googlegroups.com/web/KEWReportfinal2008.pdf C] Presentation here http://groups.google.com/group/indiandemocracy/web/Electoral%20Reforms.ppt

• The Vedic Inventive Principles

Karthikeyan Iyer, karthikeyan.iyer@crafitti.com, kartzpot.blogspot.com

  A preview of the Vedic Inventive Principles, an abstracted view of what are popularly known as the 
  Vedic Mathematics Sutras. What are these principles? Do they have any meaning beyond Mathematics? 
  How do they compare with other inventive principles and triggers used across the world e.g. 
  De Bono's Six Thinking Hats, Russian TRIZ triggers, SCAMPER etc.? Lets learn and apply them LIVE!!!

• What is Indian English?

Shivku, blog.shivku.com

 The planet is getting smaller with internet and all those fast flying aeroplanes. And then, It is getting harder 
 to identify our language with fellow speakers from the UK, US, Australia etc. Some of what we speak is influenced 
 by the fact that the British were here (Neighbourhood with a "u") and some due to our obsession with Hollywood 
 and technology (Elevator vs lift, Program vs Programme). But more importantly, much is special and unique to the English
 that we speak here (Prepone, gyan, "We are like that only", "Why because..."). The idea is to define, identify, document 
 and popularize "Indian English".

• Alternate Life Commune

Shree Kumar, www.shreekumar.in

 Are you an OpenSIM or Second Life user ? Wondering what the hype about "Second Life" is all about ? Want to 
 experience OR discuss it ? Let's meet and discuss these, exchange ideas, demos, etc. PS: I don't have any 
 gyan to give about these; I'm still discovering.

• Essentials of Astrology, Palmistry and Other Occult

Rajeev Kumar, raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

 Astrology, Plamistry and other occult sciences are greatly misunderstood and taken for superstitions.
 This session seeks to discuss   the scientific issues behind this sciences and break myths. 

• eGovernance: Status, Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

Rajeev Kumar, raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

 While India is one of the top nations in the world which has one of the most matured Information Technology industry, 
 we have been very slow in adopting IT in governance. There are a lot of opportunities for innovators in IT. 

• Comparison between Traditional and Modern Match-making

Rajeev Kumar, raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

 We are all living in a mordern and dynamic world. But when it comes to some issues such as matrimony, 
 we are all still old fashioned! Why is that? Lets discuss this ?

  Rajeev - Thanks for the wonderful topic. I was thinking on similar lines and was thinking of an additional dimension.
  Whatever be the school of match making u follow, can technology leap from the current state of matches to anything better.
  Sridhar Pabbisetty, psridharp@gmail.com

• Finding a House in Bangalore: Open Discussion

Deepa Mohan & Meera K, Citizen Matters

 Want to rent a house or buy a house? Which area? What's the budget? What to look for? What issues do you face? 
 An open discussion to share your angst.

• Open Discussion : Your Experience of Bangalore's new airport

Viral, sachde.com viralsachde (at) gmail (dot) com

  Let's praise the efforts of BIAL team and make wish-list for them and preferably send it too.

• Laugh Out Loud

Anoop, anoop_c_v@yahoo.com

  Forming a group for intensive witty writing on various topics, more on the humourous front.

• TELL dot BLR: Be an SMS journalist: vent, rant, rave, call

Meera K, Subbu Vincent, Citizen Matters

What's the shortest story in today' world? An SMS, obviously! Can lots of citizen generated one-liners from around Bangalore's gazillion localities and crossroads tell a city's story on a given day? Better still, can we put this SMS citizen journalism to constructive use? Citizen Matters, Bangalore's community e-magazine wants to hear from all you SMSers on this.

[edit] Arts & Careers

• How can U make the best use of undergrad life

Ashwin Krishna, Co-Founder

  Too much of boring lecturers, internals, canteen n parking lot life, sleepy afternoons, chit chat about chicks... Time to awaken the senses and DO something significant in student life... 
  Calling all the the undergrad lads... A open discussion to brainstorm innovative things which can be done during undergrad life... Some of the things we can start with Open source Hacking, Music, Event Management, Bootstrapping a company... 
  Who knows? World's next Googles or Ciscos will be from Indian University's dorm rooms...
  Join in folks... Its for U... WE have the potential... 

• Personal Photography: Soul Searching

Mahesh Shantaram, Independent Photographer

 Photography courses are dousing nascent talent with an overdose of technical crap and rigid rules. 
 This is a crisis, as I see it. Plenty of us are scouring the pages of flickr in search of inspiration. 
 It's time to look elsewhere. This session is for anyone who has even a fleeting interest in photography. 
 It's going be purely inspirational, driven by a careful selection of audio-visual tools that will fire
 all the right neurons.

• Commercial Photography: Soul Selling

Mahesh Shantaram, Independent Photographer

 I keep getting asked whether photography as a full-time career pays well. What are the creative ways to 
 answer this? How much soul-selling happens as we go from hobbyist to professional? This session brings 
 together those who are or those who want to be professional photographers. Let's share experience, bust 
 some myths, and say it like it is. I'm bringing my archives along to show and tell.

• How to Stitch that Fantastic Panorama

Shree Kumar, [gmail] shree DOT shree, www.shreekumar.in

 Free tools are available (Hugin most prominently) to easily stitch panoramas from digital camera images. The process to 
 shoot them is simple too. However, these not as well known as they should be. This hands on session will show how easy it is 
 to shoot panoramas. The true beauty of panoramas is revealed after they are printed. So I'll also throw some light on how to 
 go about printing panoramas. Given time & interest, I may try to tackle some difficult aspects - e.g. shooting HDR images and
 HDR panoramas.

• Ten Photographs I Love

Ishan, lukwhostalking [at] gmail [dot] com , lukwhostalking.deviantart.com

  This is for all photography enthusiasts. Lets each bring 10 photographs we love and share them with the group.
  Maybe we can start an interesting discussion on photography and generally network.

• Post processing photos using open source tools

Amoghavarsha, amoghavarsha AT gmail DOT com

 A session on how opensource tools can enhance your images!

• Working on your dream project with a day job

Ujjwal Grover, ujj{@}tempostand{dot}com, ujjwalgrover.blogspot.com

  Calling all startuper's and wanna be startuper's for a discussion on "how to work on 
  your dream project together with your day job". How much time to spend, when to spend. 
  Does it seem like fun or does it seem like extra work. Should weekends be sacrificed. 
  Should you just quit if you've got an idea? Is it ethical to neglect your day job or 
  should you try to be an intraprenuer instead of an entrepreneur?

• iReboot - Experience your dream job

Mukta Darera, mukta.darera@ireboot.in

  iReboot is a company which helps people test drive dream jobs and enables them to
  covert their passion into reality.