TWINCLING Photo Gallery

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This photo gallery consolidates all the photographs from the various events since 2007.

Older photographs can be accessed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/twincling

Backup & Recovery TSM Photos (11/8/2007)

AJAX and Web 2.0 TSM Photos (13/10/2007)

Sumit, TSM Co-ordinator, briefing the audience about AJAX and Web 2.0 and the motivation behind the talk.

Sumit introducing the Speaker Mr. Rajashekhar Sheela, Team Lead of GetSet Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Audience seeing the demo of 'Google sugest' like feature using AJAX and XMLHttpRequest

Mr. Rajashekhar, talking about about Event handling and using a blank 'div' section to show the response.

Another view of the audience listening intently to the talk. Sai pardhu is seen just behind the laptop.

Audience listening to the talk. Second from left is Ramesh Kittu. The dude in red t-shirt is Akbar.

AJAX demos are really cool but DOM handling is a little complicated. John is seen (closest to camera).

Mahesh Patil and SriPhani (corner right) and the rest of the audience.

Close view of the audience.

With a significant turnout of attendees for the talk, Sumit has no place to sit.

Mr. Rajashekhar, setting up another AJAX demo. One of the hightlight of the talk was the large number of demos that were shown to the audience along with their implementation.

Mr. Rajashekhar explaining a point regarding SSL and AJAX.

The audience working through the DOM concepts in detail.

Mr. Rajashekhar show casing yet another demo.

Discussion about how the AJAX request works.

Mr. Rajashekhar discussing about getElementbyTag(), role of id in DIV and DOM manipulation.

Mahesh felicitating the talented speaker Mr. Rajashekhar Sheela.

Mr. Mahesh is all appreciative about the talk and thanks the speaker.

Mr. Mahesh is all appreciative about the talk.

A closeup photo of right half of the audience in the group photo.

A closeup photo of left half of the audience in the group photo.

Sumit and Akbar discussing a point about Ruby.

Hari (foreground) is all charged up about getting a brand new set of Ubuntu, Fedora, FreeBSD and OpenSuSe CD/DVDs.

Mahesh and APRaj are all smiles at the end of the session.

The customary Group photograph after the AJAX and Web 2.0 talk.

One of the interesting things about the TSM is the customary group photograph that we have of almost all the attendees that participated in the Saturday Meet.

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BOF - Ruby on Rails (19/1/2008)

We have an amazing Birds of the same Feather (BoF) meetup on Ruby on Rails.

CDAC PERL Workshop

DKTES Project Discussions

Students discussing about Open Source projects with Saifi Khan of TWINCLING Society.

Firefox Geek Party

Firefox Hackathon

Open Source RoundUp 2007 (15/12/2007)

Open Source RoundUp 2007 is the event that brought together professionals and practitioners with focus on Open Source in projects, product development, project management, test platforms, embedded systems, kernel engineering, bio sciences and social networking.

The technical event included year end party, goodies for attendees and career networking forum with Resume drop box, to facilitate professionals and students seeking career opportunities in specific technologies.

We have categorized the photographs in various sections for logical consistency and ease of loading of the large number of pictures.

See you again at the much bigger and brighter Open Source RoundUp 2008 !

The Setup

Narender Rao setting up the audio interface. Abhishek Sinha and Sandeep Kumbhar are seen in the background.

Mr. Narender Rao setting up the audio video interface.

A view of the hall with seating capacity of 150. Requested registrations were in excess of 250.

Thanks to Mr. Rahul Chopra, Editor, Linux For You (LFY) magazine, we had about 24 issues of LFY for year 2007 which were won by the various members of the audience.

The Start

Members of the audience seen, while Open Source RoundUp 2007 would start shortly.

Audience listens to the 'On Open Source' interview of Simon Phipps.

Mr. Srinvas Kavuri, Senior Director, addresses the audience.

Mr. Srinvas Kavuri speaks on Data Management.

Amazing response of the Open Source community of Hyderabad.The Hall was full in no time. Next time, the event will be conducted at a much larger venue.

Mr. Srinivas Kavuri, talking about Areas of Data Management.

Mr. Srinivas Kavuri, towards the end of his talk on Data Management.

The Party

One of the two pineapple cakes. Call it 'dual core' if you will.

Mr. Suren Poruri, Assistant Vice President (AVP) Polaris Labs, and Society Patron, cutting the first cake.

Audience clapping as the cake is cut. Mr. V. C. Mohan is seen in front left.

Ms. Namita Iyer, President TWINCLING Society is seen cutting the second cake.

The audience of about 154 attendees. Thank you for the remarkable support.

The year end party starts.

A small group discussing at one end of the hall. Second from right is Mr. Umamaheshwararao Lankoti.

Enthusiastic Hyderabadi IT professionals, from left to right, Mr. Shiva Golagani, Mr. Suren Poruri, Mr. Rajesh Sarangapani, Mr. Maruthi Sivakumar Vutla, Mr. Manish Pratap Singh and Mr. Verma.

A long winding row towards the tasty snacks ordered from Gokul chat. Samosas, Cutlet, Cholas to keep the audience thrilled.

Mr. Sumanth Krishna, helping himself with samosa and cutlet.

Mr. Nishant Soin looks at the camera, as the photography team tries to capture the moments.

The photography team tries to capture yet another moment.

The audience enjoying the Samosa, cutlet and irani chai.

The cake is finished.

Another view of the audience. Mr. Naveen C. is seen near the coffee vending machine.

The Talk (CEO/CTO perspective on Open Source)

Mr. Maruthi Sivakumar Vutla, presenting 'CEO/CTO perspective on Open Source'

Mr. Maruthi presented amazing insight in his 'not to be missed talk'.

Mr. Maruthi presents a slide about 'Corporations are profit driven and required to do well for their shareholders.'

A view of the audience.

A view of the audience. Mr. Sumanth Krishna (pen in shirt pocket) and Mr. Rajesh Batta.

Mr. Maruthi, talking about 'Open Source business models'.

Mr. Maruthi emphasising a point.

A view of the audience. From Left to right are, Mr. Naveen C, Mr. Naresh, Mr. Pawan Kumar (partially hidden) and Mr. Sandeep Kumbhar (DKTES, Ichalkaranji).

Another view of the hall, where Open Source RoundUp 2007 was held.

Audience is smiling and in fact clapping with the insightful point presented by Mr. Maruthi.

The Talk (Linux Kernel Modules engineering)

Linux kernel module design being discussed by Ms. Namita Iyer.

Namita Iyer discussing about Linux in Mission critical systems.

Namita Iyer, highlights the flexibility and power of kernel modules.

The audience listening to the discussion on Linux kernel modules.

The Talk (Mr. Manish Pratap Singh)

Mr. Manish Pratap Singh from Tanla, discusses about telecom application development.

Mr. Manish Pratap Singh, highlights a point about various Open Source Java components that make the solution.

The audience intently pondering over the discussion.

Member of the audience discussing a point with Mr. Manish.

Mr.Manish addressing a query from the audience.

Mr. Abhishek Sinha from Verizon, felicitating the speaker Mr. Manish Pratap Singh.

The Talk (Mr. Naveen C.)

Mr. Naveen C. from Nokia, discusses about network testing tools and appliance engineering.

Mr. Naveen C. being felicitated by Ms. Namita Iyer.

The Talk (Mr. Pawan Kumar)

Mr. Pawan Kumar from Satyam, discussing about System administration and infrastructure support.

The audience look on as the discussion progresses.

Mr. Pawan Kumar, pondering over a query raised by Mr. Ananth, a music composer.

Audience making notes of the points highlighted by Mr. Pawan

A view of the audience.

Mr. Pawan Kumar, addressing the audience.

Mr. Pawan Kumar talks about the BigBro software.

Mr. Pawan Kumar addressing a query.

Mr. Ananth highlighting a point about the feature he wants in a backup software for his music composition.

Ms. Namita Iyer, addressing a query related to backup software and versioning software.

Ms. Namita Iyer, felicitating Mr. Pawan Kumar for the wonderful and informative talk.

The Talk (Mr. Rajesh Sarangapani)

Mr. Rajesh Sarangapani from Accenture, discussing Open Source test architectures and platforms. Maruthi is seen sitting.

The audience listening to the highly interesting talk of Rajesh Sarangapani.

With a large turnout of professionals, there was a lot of interaction.

Setting the context (Platforms, Methods and Testing) is critical to success in Test engineering.

Mr. Rajesh Sarangapani illustrating the concept.

Mr. Rajesh Sarangapani being felicitated by Mr. Narender Rao, Jt. Secretary.

The Talk (Project Management and Open Source)

Mr. Yaser Ansari from AppLabs, addressing the audience at the start of his talk on Project Management in Open Source.

Mr. Yaser Ansari, explaining the structure and attributes of a project from a PM perspective.

The audience listening to the Project Management talk.

Another view of the audience.

Mr. Yaser Ansari, addressing a audience query.

The audience pondering over the points highlighted.

Mr. Yaser Ansari, addressing a audience query.

Another view of the audience.

Mr. Yaser Ansari, discussing about Risk management approaches.

Another view of the audience as another point is being discussed.

A member of the audience discussing a query.

A view of the audience.

Another view of the audience.

The audience look on as the discussion progresses.

The audience enjoying themselves.

Another view of the audience.

Mr. Suren Poruri, Assistant Vice President (AVP), Polaris Labs, Hyderabad.

Mr. Yaser Ansari being felicitated by Ms. Namita Iyer.

The Community Discussions

Mr. Sumanth Krishna, Senior Engineer at Aztecsoft, talks about the community perspective and Ruby on Rails.

Mr. Sumanth Krishna, Senior Engineer at Aztecsoft, offers to take the Ruby on Rails workshop on 8th, March 2008. Yes sir, absolutely.

The audience is all smiles. It was a evening well spent.

Mr. Sumanth Krishna, Senior Engineer at Aztecsoft, speaks on Ruby on Rails.

Audience participating in the discussion on Ruby, and Ruby on Rails.

Another view of the audience.

Another view of the audience. Seen are Mr. Sridhar Reddy (first from left) and Mr. Praveer (with specs).

Mr. Abhishek Sinha from Verizon and Mr. Suman Krishna from AztecSoft, discuss about Spring framework and Ruby on Rails framework.

A view of the hall as the discussion progresses.

A view of the audience. Mr. Umamaheshwararao Lankoti from Azingo (first from left).

A view of the audience. Mr. Manish from Computer Sciences corporation (CSC).

A view of the audience.

Mr. Rajesh Sarangapani from Accenture discusses a point. Mr. Sumit Upadhyay is seen standing behind him.

Mr. Suren Poruri, AVP, Polaris Labs.

Mr. Sumath Krishna speaks on Ruby on Rails framework, while Mr. Abhishek Sinha from Verizon looks on.

A view of the audience. From left to right, Mr. Suren Poruri, Mr. B. Seenu from Yahoo R&D Bangalore, Mr. Verma (hidden), Mr. Shiva Golagani, from AppLabs.

Mr. Saifi Khan, raising a question for the audience.

A view of the audience.

Mr. Saifi Khan, highlighting key aspects of Open Source projects like gcc-egcs-gcc, Apache, CVS-SVN and FreeBSD.

A view of the LFY magazines, which were won by the audience in a quiz. Thanks Rahul, Molly, Aatanu, Swapnil from Linux For You, for the support.

Mr. Rajesh Sarangapani and Mr. Maruthi Sivakumar Vutla.

Mr. Ananth and Mr. Raghu.

Mr. Saifi, mentioning about Open Source and innovation.

The Community - Interaction and Fun

Mr. Sumath Krishna speaks on Ruby on Rails framework, while Mr. Abhishek Sinha from Verizon looks on.

A view of the audience. From left to right, Mr. Suren Poruri, Mr. B. Seenu from Yahoo R&D Bangalore, Mr. Verma (hidden), Mr. Shiva Golagani, from AppLabs.

A view of the audience.

A member of the audience proudly raises the LFY magazine that reads 'India'.

The audience is all smiles. It was so much of fun to be part of Open Source RoundUp 2007.

The audience is all smiles.

Mr. B. Seenu is all smiles as he holds his copy of the Linux For You magazine.

The audience is all smiles.

Boy, we had such fun at Open Source RoundUp 2007. It going to be even better next year.

The audience is all smiles.

Another view of the audience.

The audience is all smiles.

Another view of the audience.

The audience is all smiles.

LFY magazines, being given to a winner of the quiz question.

There goes up a hand that answered the question correctly. You won yourself a LFY magazine.

LFY magazines, being given to a winner of the quiz question.

The audience is all smiles.

People getting up to collect their TWINCLING T-shirts.

Sumit and Abhishek opening up the big bundles of T-shirts and giving out to people.

Overall an amazing experience. See you at Open Source RoundUp 2008.

Reaching out to 350 colleges in Andhra Pradesh

The flyers have been dispatched to your college !
If you haven't received it, please write to info@twincling.org

SVIT Core PERL Group

Meet the TWINCLING SVIT Core PERL Group that works on Open Source PERL projects.

TCM at DKTES Institute of Engineering

Prof (Mrs.) L. S. Admuthe, Head of the CSE Dept, DKTES Institute of Engineering.

Prof. D.V. Kodavade, CSE Dept. He is also involved in Euro-ICT cooperation.

Prof. D.V. Kodavade, CSE Dept, in his laboratory.

Mr. U.A. Nuli and Mr. Sandeep Kumbhar, in Internet laboratory.

View of all the CSE Dept labs from corridor.

Mr. Sandeep Kumbhar, president DKTES LUG, Ichalkaranji.

Mr. Sandeep Kumbhar and Mr. Saifi Khan, in front of CSE Dept.

Mr. U.A. Nuli and Mr. Saifi Khan, in Internet laboratory.

Mr. U.A. Nuli and Mr. Sandeep Kumbhar. The internet lab is connected to the outside internet with a 1-Mbps leased line.

Students attending the 'Linux and OpenSource' seminar.

One of the students, discussing a point during the OpenSource seminar.

Students listening to the seminar.

Aniket (red t-shirt) and Amaresh (orange t-shirt).

Amaresh, discussing a point.

Faculty and students together for OpenSource.

Rohan Kumar (red t-shirt) discussing a point about KDE.

Event coordinator and Sandeep.

Sandeep Kumbhar.

Sandeep Kumbhar and Saifi Khan, TWINCLING Society, together towards the end of the session.

Seema (walking back) and students.

Students pondering over a query raised about OpenSource code and how changes propogate.

Sandeep, Rohan and Omkar, among other students.

Seema distributing the badges to the members.

Students collecting the membership badges.

Mahesh, Harshal, Sandeep, Seema, Omkar, Rohini, Nayna, Vrushali and Jyoti.

Mahesh, Harshal, Sandeep, Seema, Omkar, Rohini, Nayna, Vrushali and Jyoti. This is the core team at DKTES that will take the OpenSource vision ahead.

The students have come together to learn and promote OpenSource. The close interaction with TWINCLING Society and technical guidance and projects will help them scale greater heights !

TCM at G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Science

TWINCLING College Meet (TCM) Photos at G. Narayanamma Institute of Technology & Science.

Founded by late Sri Pulla Reddy Garu in 1997, with the objective of providing excellent learning facility for women to pursue engineering education, GNITS is affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad and approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).Accreditated by NBA (AICTE), GNITS is the first women's college in Andhra Pradesh to obtain ISO 9000 : 2001 Certification.

It offers 4-year, full time B.Tech. Degree programmes in the branches of CSE, ECE, EEE, ETM, ICE and IT. It also offers three 2-year (full time) M.Tech. program in Power Electronics and Electric Drives, Computer Science and Engineering, Digital Electronic and Communication Systems.

Mr. B. V. Prasad Babu, M.Tech. addressing the students about the Linux and OpenSource seminar.

Ms. Namita Iyer, President of TWINCLING Society addressing the students.

Dr. D. Raghurami Reddy, principal of GNITS, among the students of CSE and IT Dept.

A student having interactive discussion.

Dr. D. Raghurami Reddy, principal of GNITS, addressing the students.

Dr. D. Raghurami Reddy, talking to students about the Moore's law and acquired skills.

Dr. D. Raghurami Reddy, hands over a memento to Ms. Namita Iyer, on behalf of the college.

The TWINCLING College Meet (TCM) was attended by close to 100 hundred students and was very interactive and fun filled !

So don't lose time. Plan a OpenSource Seminar/Workshop at your college today !
Please write to info@twincling.org

TCM at Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering

TWINCLING College Meet at Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering, Vijayawada.

Commemorative statue of Late Sri Koneru Lakshmaiah, Founder chairman of Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering, Vijayawada.

A view of Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering campus from the entrance gate.

Photograph of KLCE chairman, Mr. Koneru Satyanarayana and KLCE principal, Dr. L.S.S. Reddy

Dr. L.S.S. Reddy, principal KLCE, reviewing the introduction letter of TWINCLING Society. He was appreciative of the role that TWINCLING Society is playing in promoting OpenSource.

Mrs. Vasavi, Head of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). She was very pleased that TWINCLING Society is conducting an event at KLCE within four days of her intimating the Society.

Mr. P. Saikiran of the CSE Dept. He is researching in the Wireless Security space.

Mr. K. Thirupathi Rao of the CSE Dept. He is principal investigator in Wireless Security space project.

Mr. P. Saikiran, Mr. K. Thirupathi Rao of CSE Dept and Mr. Saifi Khan. TWINCLING Society at Computing Lab.

Mr. K. Thirupathi Rao of the CSE Dept. He is principal investigator in Wireless Security space project.

K. Srinath, FOCUS co-ordinator and KLCE LUG cofounder on phone coordinating the event planning.

Students beginning to trickle into the Seminar Hall for the Linux and OpenSource Seminar and Workshop.

A view of the large KLCE campus.

Students walking toward their Dept. A view from the library side.

Simulation lab (EEE) and the Computer Centre at KLCE, Vijayawada. The college has really good infrastructure.

K. Srinath, drinking water after an exhaustive walk around the campus.

A view of the computing laboratory.

Students walking towards the Seminar Hall. On the right is Sandeep Tiwari with a co-organizer of the OpenSource event.

Mr. Saifi Khan, TWINCLING Society, visits the Central Library.

A view of the common visitor section of Central Library, KLCE, Vijayawada.

A view of the Issue and return section of the library. The Central library is very well stocked with the latest books.

A view of the periodicals section of Central Library.

Mr. Saifi Khan, TWINCLING Society near the Notice board of the Library, taking a look at the various event posters.

Mr. K. Srinath, Co-ordinator FOCUS and KLCE LUG addressing the students.

The students listening to the address speech of the co-ordinator.

Another view of the enthusiastic students who came in large numbers to learn about Linux and OpenSource.

View of the students sitting in the first column of the large seminar hall.

A view of the Seminar hall where the TWINCLING College Meet (TCM) was held.

A view of the students sitting in the third and fourth column of the Seminar Hall.

The Coordinating Team of FOCUS KLCE. Left to right is 'Billy' (William Kumar Moses Jr.), volunteer and Sandeep Tiwari, a Linux enthusiast.

Mr. Saifi, interacting to the students.

A view of the students as they ponder on the question raised during the discussion meet. The quesion was 'What makes OpenSource software more secure ?'

Mr. Saifi, answering a query.

Students with their thinking caps put on. Linux and OpenSource related discussions are very thought provoking.

Mr. Saifi, answering another query related to LAMP skills.

Mr. Saifi, pointing out to the concept of 'Community Research' on the presentation slide.

Mr. Saifi, highlighting the importance of understanding internals of infrastructure software like Tomcat.

Mr. Saifi, answering a query related to industry valuation of OpenSource skills.

Mr. Saifi, highlighting OpenSource development practices.

TCM Slides - Technical Excellence and Industry interaction

A student discussing about a point mentioned on the slide.

Billy or Mr. William Kumar Moses Jr., co-ordinator FOCUS, addressing the students.

The students are all smiles as the discussion about OpenSource progresses.

Another view of the students.

Billy and Saifi, clapping along with the students to welcome Ms. V. V. Ravali, FOCUS incharge, on stage.

Mr. Saifi, receiving a memento from Ms. V. V. Ravali on stage.

Mr. Saifi, summarising the core points about OpenSource, while Billy looks on.

Students getting up for the National Anthem, prior to the close of the Seminar and Workshop.

KLCE Core Team (left to right) - 'Billy' William Kumar Moses Jr., K. Srinath and Sandeep Tiwari after the event.

KLCE Core Team is all smiles (left to right) - 'Billy' William Kumar Moses Jr., K. Srinath and Sandeep Tiwari after the event.

Billy, Saifi Khan and K. Srinath after the event.

K. Srinath, Saifi Khan and Sandeep Tiwari after the event.

K. Srinath and Billy, prior to boarding the KLCE college bus at the end of the day.

Saifi, Srinath and Billy in the last bus (7C) at the end of the day.

The College Meet was atteneded by a large number of students who were keen to learn about Linux and OpenSource. OpenSuSe 10.2 (6-CD set), FreeBSD 6.2, NetBSD 3.1, Gentoo Linux CDs were distributed to the students.

Overall a memorable meet at Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering, Vijayawada.

Another L.A.M.P. is being planned for first week of December 2007.

TSM - Ruby on Rails (17/11/2007)

A.P. Rajshekhar setting the tone for the Ruby on Rails (RoR) talk.

Audience viewing the RoR concept slide.

Audience pondering over 'DRY' point emphasised by A.P. Raj

Shriphani, the youngest TWINCLING member, is all smiles.

Front Row (L-R) : Chandra, Akbar
Behind Row (L-R): Hafeez, Uma, Swamy, Nikhil and Sumit

A.P. Raj explaining the control code for the page

(L-R): Benny Jacob, Sarvesh, Srikrishna Das and Manish.

Audience intently seeing the demo of RoR page traversal.

Sumanth Krishna, explaining the flow of the events and the handlers.

Sumanth Krishna, explaining the various Rails events.

Sumanth Krishna is all smiles as he talks about iPoLipo and interacts with Sarvesh (not seen).

Audience listening to the point made by Sarvesh (not seen).

A.P Rajshekhar is pretty pleased with the TaleWiki demo he developed in Ruby on Rails.

Sumanth Krishna (left) felicitated with TWINCLING T-shirt and Jotter pen, by Sumit (right).

(L-R): Shriphani, Umamaheshwara Rao, Abdul Hafeez, Chandra Mohan Mani, (GSSwamy ?), Sumit, (Nikhil ?), Koteshwar Rao.

(L-R): Sandip Tiwari, Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, Srikrishna Das, Bishal Pantha, A.P. Raj (front), Rajesh Batta, Benny Jacob, Sarvesh Valia, Sumanth Krishna (front).