The Board of Directors in their quest to bring the best of Open Source to the members have aligned the Society activities around the (Special Interest Group or SIG model. The S.I.G. model is the corner stone of focussed activities in societies like the I.E.E.E. (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and A.C.M. (Association of Computing Machinery).

The eight SIGs identified are :

• OpenSource
• Storage Technologies
• Security & Ethical Hacking
• Games Development
• Ruby programming language
• Entrepreneurship
• Scientific computing
• Cloud computing.

Each SIG has a chair(person), mailing list and volunteer leads. each SIG also seeds an Open Source project in that area to build a vibrant community in that area.

Please join the SIGs that interest you.

OpenSource Twincling List Open Source Technologies discussion list, Linux, BSD Operating systems. Web application development using PHP, PERL, Lua. Community related discussions, Student projects. Twincling Saturday Meets (TSM), Twincling College Meets (TCM). Coordination with students for Festivals, Workshops and Quiz at their colleges. Technical excellence is a core focus area in Open Source.

Archives available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling

Storage As the Small and Medium Business (SMB) organization focus on increasing efficiencies by undergoing computerization, large amounts of storage requirements will be seen. In order to provide a value proposition to the SMB segment, 'storage' has been identified as an important SIG.

Archives available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/storage

Entrepreneurship WiTi (What I Think Is) Based on queries, suggestions and feedback, we believe that this will help members with focus on Entrepreneurship and Opensource will benefit and take the vision of 'contribution to OpenSource from India' to another level. This also helps companies see the value proposition of Open Source.

Archives available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/witi
                      and http://groups.google.com/group/witi

defHack is focussed on technical discussions related to Ethical Hacking, Network & Systems Security, Certification Exams and tools development.

Archives available at http://groups.google.com/group/defhack

GamesBond is a gaming, Open Source games and tools development focussed Special Interest Group.

Archives available at http://groups.google.com/group/gamesbond

RubyCon is a Ruby, Sinatra, Web frameworks and Functional Programming focussed Special Interest Group.

Archives available at http://groups.google.com/group/rubycon

Twincling Science is a BioInformatics, Life Science and Scientific computing focussed Special Interest Group.

Archives available at http://groups.google.com/group/twinclingscience

BigCloud is a Cloud computing technology, Open Source cloud infrastructure focussed Special Interest Group.

Archives available at http://groups.google.com/group/bigcloud 

Feedback

The Foundation is adopting new set of approaches and measures to unleash creativity and innovation in the way we reach out to audiences, build and nurture relationships and execute strategies. Please send in your suggestions to info@twincling.org