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December 5th, 2009
The seventh edition of Barcamp Kerala will be taking place at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, Kottayam on 20th December 2009. There are over 10 sessions planned and over 100 technology enthusiasts are expected to take part in the event.
What is Barcamp Kerala?
Barcamp Kerala is get together of technology enthusiasts and [...]
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April 8th, 2009
I am really surprised at the speed of adoption of Internet in government activities. The latest is the Web site hosted by Election commission for LokSabha elections 2009. The Chief Electoral Office Web site can be used to find your polling booth!! The best thing is that it works!
Here is a step by step guide,
1. [...]
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December 13th, 2008
Just few days back I wrote why free software enthusiasts should be ashamed of the immature protest they did at the National Free Software conference held at CUSAT in Cochin. They went on to do things that clearly was criminal in nature. Police had to be called in to throw them out. What was the [...]
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December 7th, 2008
Kerala Government and Free software community is organizing a 3 day conference on open source free software movement in Trivandrum, Kerala. The conference is organized at the Mascot hotel during 9-11 December and there is also an exhibition named “Freedom Expo 2008″ at the Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds. The highlight of the event is the participation [...]
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November 17th, 2008
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing community (SMC) has released a press note on the NCFS 2008 spectacle.
The National Conference on Free Software which holds the motto of Free Software, Free Knowledge and Free Humanity was held on Cochin University of Science And Technology (CUSAT). The main organizers of the event were CUSAT, Open Software Solutions Industrial Co-Operative [...]
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November 17th, 2008
If there is one word that has the most confused and complicated definition in Kerala, it is the word “Freedom”. Many people think that “freedom” means you have the full right to do anything even if that means doing illegal things or trampling on another person’s freedom. It is like you can do whatever you want to [...]
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August 31st, 2008
On 4th September 2008, Chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan will inaugurate the commencement of 3 phase expansion of Technopark in Trivandrum. This will involve creation of various infrastructure for companies and construction of an internal ring road in the Technopark campus. Various software campuses of companies such as UST Gobal and Infosys is being constructed as [...]
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August 30th, 2008
Big media corporations around the world are a big threat to human freedom and free flow of information. These corporations twist and create fake news and scary news to influence public opinion to serve their own interests. Malayala Manorama from Kerala is no exception. Recently they have started a sensational article series called "blue truth" [...]
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July 10th, 2008
In Malayalam there is a saying – "onnukila asante nenchathu allengil kalarikku purathu" which when translated means "either on teachers chest or outside school". You get the idea.
The same thing happening in technology adoption Kerala. When it comes to Kerala government departments such as KSRTC, Electricity Board or Water Authority technology adoption is zero. You [...]
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June 5th, 2008
I have been a strong advocate of privatization and I have written many posts before on why we need strong competition in the market to ensure consumer protection. But unfortunately even at this early stage, private companies are displaying such greed that I am getting skeptical now. In a country like India where people look [...]
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May 13th, 2008
If any of you tried to access SSLC exam results online, you would have seen that all Web sites including those of Kerala government went down when results were announced! It is funny since this time there was announcement that a lot of money is spend to make the system crash proof and C-DIT is [...]
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March 15th, 2008
In Kerala, nowadays almost every one has a mobile phone. There are "life time prepaid services" which requires a very small amount to keep a mobile connection with free incoming call support. Hence even school children has got their own mobiles.
Like any other new service, this convenience comes with a lot of problems. Internet [...]
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March 13th, 2008
Kerala’s IT show has started today in Technopark Trivandrum. The event was inaugurated by chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan. For the next three days, Technopark campus is open to general public and an exhibition is also running for the next three days. This event will conclude on 15th March. The opening timings are from 10:30 [...]
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February 26th, 2008
As part of the SMART Move initiative, motor vehicle department in Kerala has put all the vehicle details and driving license details online. You can access it here. The online facilities include driving license test scheduling details, details about your license application, fancy number availability and registration details of a given vehicle number. These facilities [...]
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January 29th, 2008
Barcamp is a gathering of people who want to share and learn. Typically it is a techy event and the last barcamp saw a lot of geeks in attendance.
The second Barcamp is being organized at Cochin on February 3rd, 2008. The venue is DOE (Department of Electronics) seminar hall, CUSAT. You can register for the [...]
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