The next BarCamp Kerala(8) is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on March 28^th, 2010. Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time.
For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Wikipedia

Venue

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. When this post was written we have 65 attendees.

Sessions

Till now we have 6 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still hesitant about coming to BarCamp Kerala, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• BarCamp Kerala on May 3
• Barcamp kerala 6
• About Geeks and BarCamps
• Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience
• BarCamp Time for Kerala

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Its BarCamp time again in Kerala We are holding BarCamp Kerala 7 on 20^th of December 2009! BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

Think barcamp is about lawyers? Or about alcoholics? Think again…

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event

Venue

BCK 7 will be at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, Chetipuzha, Changanassery, Kottayam. For more details, go here

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. As of yet we have 47 attendees.

Sessions

When this post was written we have 10 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• BarCamp Kerala 5 @ Technopark on May 3rd
• BarCamp Kerala Part 5
• Barcamp Kerala 5
• Barcamp kerala 6
• Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience

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The next generation chips from IBM is to be powered with DNA if sources are to be believed. “The cost involved in shrinking features to improve performance is a limiting factor in keeping pace with Moore’s Law and a concern across the semiconductor industry,” said Spike Narayan, manager, Science & Technology, IBM Research – Almaden.

“The combination of this directed self-assembly with today’s fabrication technology eventually could lead to substantial savings in the most expensive and challenging part of the chip-making process.” This would mean researchers could pack in more speed and computational powers into chips.

The challenge faced by the semiconductor industry is developing the necessary lithographic technology for features sizes smaller than 22nm. The ability of the DNA structures which can serve as scaffolds or miniature circuit boards they hope will help in developing the necessary technology to overcome the sub 22nm problem.  This allows the possibility to assemble components precisely on a much smaller scale.

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Its Onam time and and what better way to show the joyful spirit of Onam by wearing it on your sleeve oops I mean how about a twibbon on your twitter image???

Well follow the think http://twibbon.com/cause/onam/Join and do as shown below

And your avatar on twitter  profile would show as below….

HAPPY ONAM TWEEPLE !!!!

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Here is the killer technology from Microsoft, Apple Keep an eye on it.

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Union Minister for State External Affairs, Govt. of India, Dr.Shashi Tharoor, flagged off the ‘I am an Entrepreneur’ Campaign from Technopark on August 21, 2009. Ms. Sheela Thomas IAS, Principal Secretary, Kerala State presided over the official inaugural session. Prof. Jyothi John, Hon Chief Editor, TechnoFIRST Magazine and Mr.Haroon.S, Business Head- AIRCEL, Mr. Sanjay Vijayakumar, CEO , MobME Wireless were present for the function. Technopark CEO- Mr. Mervin Alexander welcomed the Chief Guest and Mr.K.C.C Nair, CFO and Programme Co-ordinator, New Initiatives, Technopark, gave away the vote of thanks.
The campaign, initiated by Technopark-TBI/TUC, in association with Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), executed by TechnoFIRST Magazine and sponsored by AIRCEL will be visiting all the engineering colleges and few arts and science colleges across Kerala. The campaign has its sole intention as to identify and promote entrepreneurial talents in the state, especially from student level.

The objective of this campaign is to ignite the young minds in the Engineering colleges and Business Schools, changing the Entrepreneurship climate of the state and get more innovators and find out more students start-ups right from college campuses. This campaign is carried in a motivational video which shares the experiences of some of the very successful entrepreneurs and visionaries in our state and which aspires to inspire the students to take up on new projects on their own. It will be an informative and inspiring video on Entrepreneurship and Incubation Awareness. The video contains inspirational talks from various personalities, including Mr.Kris Gopalakrishnan (CEO, Infosys), as a successful entrepreneur from Kerala, and Dr.Shashi Tharoor (Hon. Minister), as a well known visionary.
Dr.Shashi Tharoor said, after lighting the lamp, that Keralites spread outside the state has extraordinary success as businessman. He urged more and more Keralites to stand up and say that ‘I am an Entrepreneur’. He pointed out that failure as an entrepreneur is not something unacceptable, but it’s only a learning phase for budding entrepreneurship. He lauded the efforts of Technopark-TBI for creating a fertile eco-system for budding entrepreneurship in the state.
Ms. Sheela Thomas presided over the function and also read the wishes from Chief Minister Sri. V S Achudanandan that Govt is very happy with the ‘I am an Entrepreneur Campaign’ because of the fact that the Campaign is addressing the Arts and Science Colleges and Rural Innovators along with the Engineering Colleges and Polytechniques and she offered to extend all possible support for the success of the campaign.

“To encourage budding entrepreneurship we provide a fantastic system called Technopark-TBI. The Campaign will give the required motivation for the students to take up the entrepreneurial route” says Mr.Mervin Alexander, CEO-Technopark.

www.iamanentrepreneur.in, a website solely dedicated to this campaign will bring the latest updates about the campaign and tips and advices from the market leaders and business gurus and an interaction forums to be aware about what others think.

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One of my friend Binny introduced a concept called plugin week, the idea is to release plugins for an entire week. After the success of plugin week 1 which happened last december (2008) he started week 2 now. But there is a difference in this new plugin week, he is also releasing plugins for Drupal, Gimp and some other open source tool.

So far binny released three plugins for week 2, I appreciate Binny’s initiatives.

Plugins released so far.

1)  Worpress Plugin for Weather
2)  Shopping  Cart Plugin for Wordpress
3) Wordpress Image Gallery

I am sure this will be a great carnival for all open source geeks.

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Iamatechie was awarded as one of the Red Hot Blogs of the Day! on redOrbit.com. redOrbit.com features the hottest blogs and other  hot topics for the day. iamatechie can now sport the redOrbitbadge henceforth. We thank you readers for your constant encouragement and support.

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Some of the Gmail users are having multiple accounts, and also they are wished to have multiple login to chat through the same gtalk client.  To attain this feature do some following steps:

Note: If you installed the gtalk client in the default folder, then its more easier to make this feature enabled.Right Click on the Desktop
Select New
Select Shortcut
Paste this into the text box “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

Click Next, and name it whatever: Gtalk Multiple Login, etc.
Click OK until you are done.
Note: Don’t forget to Remove the .exe in the name (if your display file extension mode is off)

So enjoy chat with different Gmail accounts.

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How about sending a post from your iphone, Blackberry, from your gmail when you are at work. Wordpress.com now introduces the latest feature to make it even easier to publish to your blog post via Email.
If your’re on holiday and want to blog about your journey. May be you have captured something with your cellphone that you just have to share. May be you are at work and should be doing something else. With Post by Email you can keep your blog updated without even opening the browser.

Post by Email is simple to use. From your blogs hosted in the Wordpress.com you can generate special email addresses.

If you have got more than one blogs, then you can create as many emails corresponding to each blog.

You can send email from any email client, whether in a browser, on your desktop, or from your cell phone, and as much formatting will be retained as possible.

Your Images will automatically be included and converted into thumbnails. If you use multiple image, they will be converted into an arrtractive gallery. Now you can snap ever moments and you can make appear to the Blog by Email.

If you’ve purchased the Space Upgrade then MP3 attachments will be displayed using our audio player. If you’ve purchased the VideoPress upgrade then you can also include videos.

There is no easier way to get media onto your blog.

• Transcoding of any video files supported by the WordPress video player (mp4, mov, wmv, avi, mpg, and m4v).
• Automatic removal of standard signature blocks, with support for manual removal of other signatures.
• Add your email addresses directly into your address book using downloadable vCards. (You don’t even need to remember the address!)
• Automatic notification of a published email post.
• Conversion of YouTube URLs into embedded videos

It’s time to start emailing again!

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