Amit Karpe

Will Snapdeal’s Deals Affect Shopping At Indiatime

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:27:21 PDT

Will Snapdeal’s Deals Affect Shopping At Indiatimes?

Tastes differ and so do customers’ preferences when it comes to buying. Catering to the needs of all people is indeed a great task, as the stores need to have a wide range of products that address the varied fancies of the shopper. Online stores offer a great advantage to prospective buyers as they provide stunning product range. The ability to compare products and services offered by various online stores encourage people to seek these stores for their purchases. Every online store that hits the market tries to outshine others and gain a steady market for its products. Snapdeal is one such online store in India, which aims at producing a wide range of products to its customers. Let is see if its deals can affect Indiatimes chances in the market.

How Versatile Are Their Collections?

Snapdeal is selling products online since 2010. The wide range of products in Snapdeal includes apparels, books, cameras, computers, mobiles, footwear, jewellery, sports goods, automotive products and many more.

Indiatimes Shopping has been operating online from the year 2005. Belonging to Times group, Indiatimes has established itself with a very good product range. The collections at Indiatimes Shopping include apparels, toys, baby products, bags, watches, mobiles, computers, home appliances, kitchen appliances, books and many more.

Where To Look For Better Options?

In books and electronic items, Indiatimes shopping offers a wide range of collections. In fact, the collection of books is outstanding. In apparels, footwear and in a few other categories, Snapdeal does better. You could make your choice on the website based on your purchase. Take into account the product you want to buy and choose the online store based on it.

Where Quality Is Not Compromised

One of the reasons why you might hesitate to try shopping online is owing to your concern for quality. We see a general trend where customers’ spending spree has increased and they do shell out some money by way of experimenting something new. However, they are sure allergic to receiving defective products and you cannot blame them. You would as well not prefer being a target, right? Hence, it is quite natural to look for quality and with Snapdeal and Indiatimes Shopping you can get quality. Both online stores deal with branded items that have been in the market for an impressive period of time.

Where You Need Not Dig Deep

Online stores offer products for lesser price and hence generally you need not dig deep into your pockets to shell out the money, unless you make heavy purchases. Both Snapdeal and Indiatimes Shopping offer products for lesser than market price. Using Snapdeal and Indiatimes Shopping coupons, you could avail greater discounts on their products.

Where You Have Ears To Listen To You

Having someone hear your complaints after the sale is over is refreshing. Your mind is already weighed down by the quality of the product or the type of the product you have received. You would not want to get further depressed by making unattended calls and writing endless mails that do not get a reply. You have trusted the store enough to make a purchase online and it is not fair if all you get in return is silence when you have a complaint. However, this is what most of the online stores offer and this offer is the one that is not in their list of promises.

As far as Indiatimes Shopping is concerned, it makes obvious attempts to address the complaints of its customers. However, it is true that the complaints should have been avoided in the first place by providing quality services. You can at least be thankful that they do not disconnect you once you have made the payment. Snapdeal snaps the door shut once the deal is over. There are many customer complaints about the quality of products it has delivered in spite of the branded items it has and non-delivery of products on scheduled time.

In spite of all the complaints, Snapdeal has indeed managed to earn recommendation from many. The reason could be the deals it offers. However, if the customer is not dealt properly, deals may not favor the company for long. Hence, Snapdeal has to improve its customer service if it aims to make its deals more powerful.

Ecommerce Themes for Drupal 7

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:03:30 PST

Drupal has a great reputation for being a robust CMS. Many global businesses trust Drupal for their online businesses and ecommerce functionality. For those looking for ready-made designs, great looking themes for Drupal are often hard to find, and ecommerce themes are even fewer in numbers. With the release of Drupal 7 last year, developers have had to wait until extensions and themes to be upgraded from Drupal 6. A lot of progress has been made in this area, although are only a few Ecommerce themes are ready for Drupal 7. The following are some Ecommerce themes that are compatible with Drupal 7.

Metropolis

Metropolis is a free and very simple theme, which supports IE6. It is suitable for all types of sites from personal to business and ecommerce sites. It supports tableless layouts, Superfish dropdown menus and custom login and logouts. At the last count it has had 1,299 downloads. This theme is best if you are looking for a very basic design.

IC3 Clean

IC3 Clean is another free theme from Litecommerce. It is a charming and fresh 3-column tableless design. It is compatible with IE6, Firefox 3.5, Chrome 10 browsers and above. It supports the IC_connector module and includes a drop down menu. This is likely the best choice among the free options.

Free Ecommerce Themes in Development

There are other free themes available, although they are at various stages of development and have not reached full release stage yet. These include

Acquia Prosper, at development stage, AT Commerce at release candidate stage and Black Piano at beta release stage. It is worth keeping an eye on these, as they are in active development and are likely to reach full release for Drupal 7 in the near future.

Ecommerce Pro

Ecommerce Pro is a theme from Themesnap offering 5 colors, social media tabs, category featured products, homepage slideshow, and product page slideshow. Product pages can show ratings and it is compatible with IE6. This theme is updated every 2 months. This is a decent ecommerce theme with a great set of features and is available for $59.

Shoppica

Shoppica is certainly the most feature rich and customizable ecommerce theme for Drupal 7. Also from Themesnap, this theme offers infinite color options, front page slider, and it built on the 960 grid framework. Category pages can display slide shows. Grid products view can be sorted by category e.g. price or model. It is also Jquery enhanced, social media integrated and the list of features is very extensive. This is also being offered for $59. If you are looking for the most fully featured ecommerce theme for Drupal 7, Shoppica is the definitely the one to go for.

This is a guest post by Mitchel Xavier who works as a Drupal developer and creates Drupal website design and Drupal cms solutions for businesses in Sydney Australia.

Samsung Galaxy S II

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:18:22 PDT

On 21 July I buy My second Samsung Galaxy phone i.e. Samsung Galaxy S II ( gt-i9100 ). I already had Android phone "Samsung Galaxy i7500". My new phone have 1.2 GHz Dual Core processor and 2 GB of RAM. 8MP Camera and much more. This is one of the best Google Android phone in Market. Even on various sites or blogs people are claiming that this is the Best Phone in Market. Have a look at these photo. It is so slick. Screen is 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus.

Cost: This is contract phone. i.e. I get post paid Star Hub service.

Every month I have to pay 100$ for next 2 years. Normally it should cost 28000-29000 INR in India and 800-900$ in Singapore.

More:
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys2/html/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php

Google Plus (Google+) will stay here

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:48:35 PDT

I will use G+ because I like concept & use of circles. I have more 500+ friends on FB and I am not able to update my self with my real friends.
If on FB anything similar to circle please let me know. Lets say I want to read updates only from my school friends or IT Milan member or PLUG member. Currently I prefer "List" concept on twitter. I prefer to read only twits which I think are informative for me.
I think Google Plus (G+) will stay here & will give good fight for FB. But it wont beat FB. I use Buzz as my primary two way communication social networking. Though I have account on 20+ social networking sites and 3-4 blogs. I like small community/network which is active around me on buzz, on which I daily spend more time than Twitter or FB or Posterous. I as actually very excited with Wave but it was difficult for my small brain ;) But buzz catch very well. Overall I am big fan for Google & its products. I used my gmail for 40% to compare my overall computer use, which include 5+ mails ids, 20+ mailing list and 30+ newsletters. From there I compose my all blogs and post to blogspot or posterous and from there it get auto posted on FB, Twitter, Wordpress and 10+ social networking sites . Even some time I post my buzz or twits through gmail :D
So overall Google understand social networking, web environment, human psychology. And thats why "Google Plus (G+) will stay here".

Installation Moodle 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:52:29 PDT

This is Quick Guide/ How to for "Installation Moodle 2.0" on Linux operation system.
My System: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid with Apapche, MySQL, PHP.
Downlaod Moodle 2.0 from http://download.moodle.org/
All other steps are same which we used to install any LAMP ( web based ) Open Source application.
Just for Note:
Create database. While creating database create it with "Change Collation: utf8_general_ci" in phpmyadmin.
or
After created database using following command you can alter it for unicode support.
ALTER DATABASE moodle DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

Also you have to install php extentions php5-curl, php5-intl, php5-xmlrpc.

Reference:
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Installing_Moodle

Samasung Galaxy S II - Top in Mobile/SmartPhone

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:21:05 PDT

Last many days I am reading many reviews about Mobiles, specially latest smartphone. I can conclude that the most promising smartphone is Samasung Galaxy S II. You can compare Samasung Galaxy S II with Apple iPhone 4 and HTC Sensation only. I will prefer GSM Arena site for any kind detail study, in case if you want any India Market specific information then you can refer Fone Arena.

For More Information:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-review-597.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s_vs_apple_iphone_4-review-500.php
and
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/864821/htc_sensation_vs_samsung_galaxy_s_ii.html

Panda Board availability in India by IDA Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:47:26 PDT

I have seen many community members from India asking about the availability of Panda Board in India. For several months there was only one vender - Digi-Key (World-Wide) and so was not an easy job to buy Panda Board in India. Panda Board community used to point to a website page which only showed a link about Digi-Key & Special Computing. Because of the advent of IDA Systems, there would now be great relief for the Indian Panda Board community. In my opinion the community would now get good support from IDA Systems in India.
IDA Systems is pre-booking Panda Board at Rs 14500/- inclusive of CST and
shipping( fully Insured Via Blue Dart). Shipping will start in the First week of May. Stocks are limited and will be shipped on first come first served payment basis. To pre-book please send an email to zoheb@idasystems.net

For More Information: http://idasystems.net/products/pandaboard
Also you can mail for further inquiry sales@idasystems.net

To know more about Panda Board check following links:
http://www.amitkarpe.com/
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/introduction-to-panda-board.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/08/introduction-to-beagle-board-in-brief.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/update-on-pandaboard-now-you-can-order.html

Beagleboard XM price drop in India - Now Only Rs 9980

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:33:05 PDT

My personal experience with IDA Systems were good. Till now I brought Beagle board and Hawk Board from IDA Systems. I have never face any problem while interacting with IDA Systems. Even once my Beagleboard got problem, in 30 days they replace with new board.
Recently IDA Systems announce "Beagleboard XM price drop in India - Now Only Rs 9980" at Beagle Board mailing list.

"We at IDA Systems (www.idasystems.net) are pleased to announce a major drop in price of the Beagleboard XM in India. The existing price was Rs 12500 all Inclusive. The New Price is Rs 9980 inclusive of CST and insured shipping via Blue Dart to you address (all inclusive). This is a saving of Rs 2520 (approx USD 56)."

For More: http://www.idasystems.net/products/beagle_board
Also you can mail for further inquiry sales@idasystems.net

To know more about beagle board check following links:
http://www.amitkarpe.com/
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/introduction-to-beagle-board.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/08/introduction-to-beagle-board-in-brief.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/05/beagle-board-with-ubuntu-1004-lucid.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/search/label/Beagle%20Board

Future of Cloud Computing

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:13:11 PST

Future of Cloud Computing

Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration in Pune

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:44:56 PST

Event Announcement: http://news.karpe.net.in/wikipedia-10th-anniversary-celebration-in-pun
Mr Barry Newstead who is Chief Global Development Officer of Wikimedia Foundation shared following points.

Wikimedia Foundation's plans for next 10 years.
1) Secured Infrastructure
2) Increasing Participation
3) Quality ( Rating Tool )
4) Increasing reach ( Books, CD, Pendrive )
5) Innovation

India is on priority.
Barry had travel 3 times in last 5 months in India. Because India have great community, more than 30 Million monthly visitor on wikimedia.org.
India is important for Wikimedia Foundation because:
1) Opportunity
2) Free Knowledge
3) Hub for Innovation
4) Office in India ( Only Office outside US )

Logo:
More I learn, less I know.
Knowledge puzzle yet to complete.

Ref:
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/WikiPuneri
http://news.karpe.net.in/wikipedia-10th-anniversary-celebration-in-pun
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_181231605233363&ap=1

The Most Popular Open Source Programs

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:28:38 PST

This is "Guest Post" from my friend Britney Baker, who write for the Prepaid Hacks Technology and Finance Blog at http://prepaidcellphones.net/articles/

Open source software is gaining popularity quickly, and behind this, there is quite a good reason. This particular type of software offers its source code to the public which can, in turn, allow it to grow and advance very quickly. This is simply because of the amount of ideas and work invested into the software from the general public as well as the developers. All open source software essentially gets better with time, but what exactly are the most popular open source programs available for download?

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is quite possibly the most popular open source program on the Internet. Firefox is an open source web browser with the purpose of giving computer users an alternative to Internet Explorer or Safari. Its popularity can be explained because of the advanced security for web browsing that it offers, its customization features, and excellent performance. It has long been the go-to browser of choice for the tech-savvy, and it is also the bundled browser for many Linux distributions.

WordPress

WordPress is specifically designed to allow virtually anyone create a beautiful and visually striking website or blog. It's one of the more successful (if not the most successful) pieces of software geared strictly for helping computer users get a website up and running within minutes. Many different types of people ranging from the business owner to the casual blogger use WordPress to reach the internet every day. Using themes and various plugins with Wordpress, anyone can turn their corner of the web into a flourishing and successful website.

OpenOffice.org

No open source program list would be complete without a mention of OpenOffice.org. Many people looking for an alternative to the pricey Microsoft Office have turned to this free application suite, and most haven't even looked back since. OpenOffice.org is a comprehensive office suite offering the same basic types of programs including a spreadsheet application, a word processing application, a presentation application, and more. Completing time-sensitive projects on a budget is possible with OpenOffice.org, and this is all thanks to contributors from all over the globe.

7-Zip

7-Zip has been known as the all-in-one alternative to commercial products such as WinZip or WinRAR. This software has been known as the solution for anyone who'd like to compress a group of files for easy organization or faster file transfers. There literally isn't much that 7-Zip can't do when paired up against commercial big dogs, and that's impressive for a compression utility.

FileZilla

Need an FTP solution for your website or server, and don't have the money to shell out on commercial software? This is exactly why FileZilla exists. FileZilla offers impressive features like support for many different operating systems, IPv6 support, a drag & drop ability, remote file editing, a tabbed interface, transfer speed limits, and so much more. FileZilla is the total package in an open source program. The program packs enough punch to measure up against other closed source software, and sometimes, it even out-performs these programs!

Britney Baker reviews prepaid cellphones for PrepaidCellphones.net. Her latest review looked at Tracfone.

Minutes Of Meeting: PLUG Meeting of December

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:02:47 PST

Even Announcement : http://www.plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2010-December/008060.html

Minutes Of Meeting
1. Manas Alekar talked about Elementary level talk and demo on Makefiles.
2. GNUnify 2011: Continued discussion on Gnunify planning and execution.
We have tentative dates for GNUnify 11 and 12 February 2011. Also we expect talk from Mozilla Foundation representative at GNUnify.
We had suggestions for various track from audience
WikiPedia Track: Aditya Godbole
We can conduct Contest, and ask for small Entry Fee. Which can donate to WikiPedia.org. Also we expect someone from WikiPedia Foundation for GNUnify.
Web Track: Harshad Gune
We can have various CMS based talk like Drupal by Dipen Chaudhary, HTML5, generic language.
SysAdmin/NetAdmin: Sudhanwa Jogalekar
There will be application specific talks like Firewall, Mail Server, Web Server, Proxy Server, File Server. Which will be advance form of Install Fest, where talk will cover more details about particular service.
System Programming: Amit Karpe
We will have talk on Linux Kernel, Linux Module programming, Embedded System. Also will have talk on MeeGo or Android Operating System from System Level perspective.
Open ARM Lab volunteers are interested to conduct hand on sessions on Beagle Board or Hawk Board.
Education/ Scientific Computing: Manjusha Joshi
PLUG volunteers are planing to create CD/DVD which will have C, C++ development tools, IDEs. Which will help to teachers or academics for acceptance of assignments/ projects on GNU/Linux System.
e.g. In training of MataLab or other such application specific training, complete training material and course-ware are usually design around that application.
PLUG volunteers are going to meet on 11 December for more testing first release of this CD. Samar from SICSR is taking initiative for this project. ( Basic CD deadline is 11 Dec )
Also next meeting on 18 December will be for develop & revising Course Ware.

Manas Alekar

Old MOM: http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/11/mom-plug-meeting.html

MOM: Android on ARM and Linux Kernel Compilation

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:42:47 PST

Session/Event Announcement Details: http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/12/android-on-arm-and-linux-kernel.html

1. We had 18 attendees for the talk.

2. Suchakra demonstrated running Friendly ARM board and flashing Android on Friendly ARM mini2440.
How Android works on Friendly ARM ? How get all help from http://friendlyarm.net/ ?
He also demonstrate use Eclipse for Android application development. There are QEMU based simulator/emulator which can use to develop & test Android application for various version of Android platform from 1.6 to 2.2. Which make development of Android application easy & fast.
Also we get to know that Tanushri had updated wiki page on Opencv on mini2440. Which real difficult task, because there no enough for Cross Compiling Open CV on Friendly ARM mini2440.
"OpenCV is a library of programming functions mainly aimed at real time computer vision, developed by Intel and now supported by Willow Garage. It is free for use under the open source BSD license. The library is cross-platform. It focuses mainly on real-time image processing."
Read More Technical Details

3. Tuxdna
Explain us about ARM board memory model. How kernel, bootloader, root filesystem works on any ARM board ?
He explain Bare Metal "hello world" examples, which works like kernel on QEMU for ARM. i.e. Without any kernel, bootloader, root filesystem there was running "hello world" program.
He used qemu which emulate ARM's versatile development-boards.
http://www.arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile.php
Read More Technical Details

Friendly ARM mini 2440 without Android

Suchakra as speaker for "Android on ARM"

Tuxdna as Speaker for "What happens when an ARM based board is powered ON?"

Friendly ARM mini2440 board running with Android

Audience for "Android on ARM and Linux Kernel Compilation - Open ARM Lab Session"

More Information:
Old Meetings MOM:
16 October 2010 MOM of Open ARM LAB meeting
14 November 2010 MOM: Demo for "Friendly ARM" board and tool chain
All Meetings Details
More Photos

Android on ARM and Linux Kernel Compilation - Open ARM Lab Session

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:34:45 PST

The Open ARM Lab session for this week will be held on Sunday, 5th December 2010.

Agenda:

1) Android on ARM
2) Linux Kernel Compilation
3) What happens when an ARM based board is powered ON?
Speaker:
1) Suchakra
2) Tuxdna

Date: Sunday, 5th December 2010.
Time: 11 PM to 2 PM
Venue: DSK Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd. "Ramashree", 3rd Floor,
1206/30 Off J.M. Road, Shivaji Nagar,
Pune 411005 Maharashtra, India Tel No.:: 020- 25511481/ 482.
Venue Map: Goolge Map
Venue Contact Person:

Agenda in Details:

1) Android on ARM and 2) Linux Kernel Compilation
* How to put any kernel and rootfs on nand in mini2440 and through
tftp/nfs on hawkboard. Will use android kernel and fs to show that.
* What are the online resources to refer for the above.
* Setup Android SKD on eclipse and develop applications.
* Online video resources for self-learning
* Other things mentioned in my agenda/or whatever you suggest based
upon my knowledge and experience stated above.

3) What happens when an ARM based board is powered ON ?
We will have a Hands on with a hello world program, along with
a brief discussion about the startup code.

What happens when an ARM based board is powered ON?
* Understand the memory map for RAM and ROM
* First instruction
* Vector table
* Stack initialization
* Relocating the RAM to a different address
* Running from RAM
A simple program on QEMU/ARM.
If time permits we will also discuss and have a hands on
with a bootloader ( UBoot inside QEMU/ARM ).

Old Meetings MOM:
16 October 2010 MOM of Open ARM LAB meeting
14 November 2010 MOM: Demo for "Friendly ARM" board and tool chain

Open ARM Lab Session: Hands on with Toolchain for Friendly Arm Board

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:21:49 PST

Updated Venue & Time:

The Open ARM Lab session for this week will be held on Saturday, 20th November 2010.
Agenda: Hands session on with Toolchain for Friendly Arm
Speaker: --
Date: 20 Nov 2010 - Saturday

Time: 11 PM to 5 PM

Agenda: Hands on with Toolchain for Friendly Arm

Venue: Embedded Design Center, 3rd Floor,
Department of Instrumentation & Control
College of Engineering, Pune.
Venue Map: Embedded Design Center, Instrumentation Department, COEP, Pune.
Venue Contact Person Suchakra : 9579317211

Agenda in Details:

1) Day long hands on session
1. Host and Target OS blueprint.
2. Install and configure toolchain for Friendly Arm on Host.
3. Build Linux OS for target device.
4. Develop a few apps for Friendly arm board.
5. Document & publish the build process.
2) Talk: "Development OTG - Accessing board shell through a browser : A Lateral Approach" ( Duration: 20 minutes approx. )
3) Open Discussion

Flyer for "Open ARM Lab Session"
( Thanks to Suchakra)

Open ARM Lab Session

Old Meetings MOM:
16 October 2010 MOM of Open ARM LAB meeting
14 November 2010 MOM: Demo for "Friendly ARM" board and tool chain

PandaBoard, Texas Instruments ARM Cortex-A9

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:40:50 PST

It is released now, available for $174 to developers at http://pandaboard.org deliveries starting at the end of this month.

For More Information about Panda Board:
http://pandaboard.org
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/introduction-to-panda-board.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/update-on-pandaboard-now-you-can-order.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/11/omap-tutorial-hour-repeat-sessions.html

Lets set the Goal

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:12:03 PST

Siddharth Waikar's Farewell Party

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:46:32 PST

One my close Friend & Colleague had got offer from RedHat. So we at DSK Digital organized Siddharth Waikar's Farewell Party on 13 Nov 2010. We had gifted him "Saha Soneri Pane" book by Veer Savarkar. Siddharth is true "Marathi Manus" who had very interesting signature for his mail:

सिद्धार्थ अ. वाईकर.

"लाभले आम्हांस भाग्य बोलतो मराठी, जाहलो धन्य ऐकतो मराठी!
धर्म,पंथ,जात एक जाणतो मराठी, एवढ्या जगात माय मानतो मराठी!!"

Update:
More photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/patwardhan.shreerang/SidharthFarewellParty
http://picasaweb.google.com/patwardhan.shreerang/TraditionalDayAtDSKDigital
His Blog: http://bykes-sid.blogspot.com/

MOM: PLUG Meeting

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:19:15 PST

Even Announcement : http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/11/3-technical-event-in-pune.html

Minutes Of Meeting
1. Aditya Godbole explain PLUG's participation at CMDA expo in Pune. Last 6 years PLUG is participating at CMDA Pune, where more than 10,000 visitors visit our stall every day.
He also explains why PLUG participate at CMDA Pune. PLUG wont make any profit our of this participation, but PLUG dose this for FOSS & GNU/Linux promotion and awareness.
2. PLUG had called for volunteer who can spend time at PLUG stall for CMDA expo from 10th Dec to 13 Dec 2010 at Hotel Marriott, SB Raod, (ICC) Pune. Volunteer required to stay at stall and represent PLUG, demonstrate various GNU/Linux distributions, distribute CDs/DVDs, registrar visitor by filling PLUG's membership form and may have to answer various technical queries.

So behalf of PLUG I request you all to come forward for volunteering. For more details you can post mail at PLUG mailing list. You don't have to be Linux Guru.

3. Amit Karpe talk about "The Open ARM Lab initiative". Which is SIG or Community where enthusiastic of ARM & Open Source Technology come together. Main aim is to contribute into Open Source in form of source code, documentation, design, solving problems of community members. This initiative is young and it is still evolving a lot. We expect this lab will have more hands on practical activities. Which will help to give more access & exposure to various Open Hardware Platform/Boards like Hawk Board, Panda Board, Beagle Board. Finally this community should help every one to get knowledge, reputation, more value for his/her profile.
4.Harshad Gune introduce last year's GNUnify event and then we started open discussion on GNUnify. Which is an annual gathering comprising of Workshops, Talks, Seminars and BOFs (Birds of a feather) held by the PLUG and the SICSR in Pune, India. We discuss various points like arranging Mobile OS Install Fest, some hands on sessions which actually contribute code into upstream community like we did at PLUG Mashup. Also there were discussion for advance track for Teachers from Computer Science academia. Which may have focus talk around Live CD and its tools like GCC, GDB, Geany, and LAMP.
5. There can be various new interesting tracks like Firewall, Mail server install fest which only have focus for System Admin level audience. There can be Localization and wikipedia contribution fest. We are still thinking of idea of Keynote Speaker who may have mass influence. Also we discuss various volunteering & management options. Sudhanwa, Manjusha Joshi had given various suggestions. PLUG want more & more ideas & volunteers to make this event successful. So comm on PLUGgies, FOSS fans, Linux Lover lets make GNUnify & CMDA expo big success.

PS: Above photo have all details for various tracks & its owner who will communicate with various speakers and arrange its sequence.
Track : Owner
WikiPedia - Aditya Godbole
Web - Harshad Gune
System Programing - Chetan Patil & Amit Karpe
Sysadmin - Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Scientific Computing - Manjusha Joshi
Also Harshad will coordinate for various logistic & management related activities.

MOM: Demo for "Friendly ARM" board and tool chain

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:15:21 PST

Event Announcement Details: http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/11/demo-for-friendly-arm-board-and-tool.html

1. We had 12 attendees for the talk.
2. Chaitannya demonstrated running friendly ARM board and introduce its various part.
How Linux works on Friendly ARM ?
3. He demonstrate how to program pwm (beep) Pulse Width Modulation , adc (Analog Digital Converter), lcd, gpio ?
4. Practical demo of how to develop program on host, compile then using tool chain ( cross compiling ) and then copy them using ftp or telnet ?
5. He introduces concept of tool chain and showed process to build tool chain. ( He is going to update complete documentation at Wiki at http://openarmlab.org/ )
6. We also discuss rules for mailing list and next agenda for Open ARM Lab.

Review of MeeGo and AppUp Developer Program in Pune

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:53:35 PST

Event Details: http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/11/meego-and-appup-developer-program-in.html

Review of MeeGo and AppUp Developer Program in Pune:
1. Nokia & Intel are really serious about this Platform.
2. Still need some boost for community participation & contribution.
3. Hands on Session got good response.
4. MeeGo will compete directly with Android on various market.
5. MeeGo community or governance is "Truly Open" than Android.

8 useful Google Android resources

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:21:13 PST

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9195579/8_useful_Google_Android_resources

8 useful Google Android resources

By Bob Brown

How Android conquered the mobile market
This is our big picture look on how the heck Android snuck up on everyone, when three years ago it was very unclear whether Google's mobile bet would go anywhere. Since January, Android has doubled its total market share in the mobile operating system market, and devices based on Android accounted for a whopping 44% of smartphones purchased in the third quarter of 2010, according to figures from NPD, one of many outfits tracking smartphone sales and usage.

iPhone vs. Droid vs. BlackBerry
We look at the three hot smartphone platforms in the United States from Apple, Google's partners and Research in Motion as part of our broader series on Networking's Greatest Arguments. For a closer look at Android OS 2.2 vs Apple's iOS 4, check out this piece from sister site InfoWorld.

A Brief History of Android
We won't bog you down with a ton of details, but zip through this slideshow to learn about how Android got to where it is from its humble beginnings at Google in November, 2007. Then test your knowledge by taking our Google Android Quiz.

Why customers choose Android
Many Android customers started with something else. Here's what 7 BlackBerry geeks have to say about why they made the switch from their RIM devices to Android products.

Best Android apps
Our friends at PC World took at stab at picking the 22 best apps of all sorts in the Android Market, including SkyFire and Barcode Scanner. For few narrower lists, you can also try the 10 Best Entertainment Apps and 10 Free Android Apps for Staying in the Know. Oh, and if you want to get some work done, see 10 Must-Have Android Apps for Business.

Android security
Google Android security is improving but has some catching up to do with the iPhone and BlackBerry. Here's what a Forrester analyst has to say about Android security and here's what IT pros at big organizations like Del Monte Foods and Ford have to say about smartphone security concerns and priorities. The good news is that technologies from companies like Good Technology are being designed to support Android devices.

Android tips
Network World Senior Editor Jon Brodkin is an early Android smartphone user and offers his tips on installing Flash on Froyo (Android OS 2.2) and offers his impressions of Froyo on a Motorola Droid. Separately, PC World offers tips on making sure Android app developers aren't snooping on your privacy. This final article is a little older, with some of it relating specifically to Android OS 2.0, but many of these 40 Android tips still apply.

Android blogs
While Network World continues to boost its Android coverage, other good sources of Android news are blogs dedicated to the Google mobile platform. Check out the Android section from this list of 50 smartphone blogs compiled early in 2010.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9195579/8_useful_Google_Android_resources

Patriotism for 5 minutes

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:01:38 PST

I just watched movie "Rang De Basanti". And just thought that it will be great if I get chance to burn my life for my county. I am ready to sacrifice my life for country. But will that really help my country. I remember song from "The legend of Bhagat Singh". Which actually poem by Ram Prasad Bismil, the great Indian Independence leader.

Khushboo Banke Mehka Karenge Hum Lelahti Har Faslo Mein
Saas Ban Ke Hum Gun Gunayenge Aane Wali Har Naslo Mein Hum
Khushboo Banke Mehka Karenge Hum Lelahti Har Faslo Mein
Saas Ban Ke Hum Gun Gunayenge Aane Wali Har Naslo Mein Hum
Aane Wali Aane Wali Naslo Mein Hum
Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamare Dil Mein Hai
Dehkna Hai Zor Kitna Baajuen Qaatil Mein Hai
Waqt Aane Pe Bata Denge Tujhe Hai Aasmaan
Kya Baatein Hum Junoonein Shok Kis Manzil Mein Hai
And
From "Rang De Basanti":
hai liye hathiyaar dushman taak mein baitha udhar
aur hum taiyyaar hain seena liye apna idhar
khoon se khelenge holi gar vatan muskhil mein hai
sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai

I really feel the same. Lets my blood will become color of Pride. Lets clear the bad system, politics, corruption from India.
Or
Living everyday for vision of my mother land... "Bharat Mata" !!!!

I have seen my friends discussing after watching movie with excitement. Everyone is agree with need of scarification, change, revolution. But after few days, memory of movie get fade away and also requirement of scarification, change, revolution. Then same old life with zero Patriotism, no need of scarification. How to change all this ? From where to start ? I don't want to just talk about current scandals or allegations about CWG, Adarsh Society, 2G spectrum. I have seen political people coming back into political life after punishment. The reason for resignation may be anything. People may forget everything be it 26/11 or anything. We just forget. People wont remember anything. They don't remember scarification of Shivaji Maharaj, Maharana Pratap, Tilak, Savarkar, Bhagat Sing, Subhash Chandra Bose. At the end of movie of "Rang De Basanti" few boys shout on TV camera "We wont forget this", "Thanks for igniting us". With movie its ok to watch it forget it. But is it ok for real life ? real issues ? Do we remember 14 August 1947 ?? What is great about 14 August ? I must have to type 15 August ..... ! No. I want to say something about 14 August. On 14 August 1947 Pakistan gains Independence. No. On 14 August India get divided get partitioned. After that so many time our India get divided, partitioned. And that was not last partition. We had lost land at Kashmir, Tibet, various small Islands, 64K km area of Arunachal Pradesh. And thousands of time by our Politician. Do we remember anything ? Do we know anything ? What is happening at North East India. How Jammu & Kashmir are burning every day ? Why they are burning ? Why Religious demographics of every state, in India changing so rapidly ? Why Bangladeshi are free to enter in India ? Why India with 70% population earns 20/- Rs per day ? Why less literacy, poor education, poor health facility ? Why there is so much corruption ? Why "anna data" farmer ends there life ? Why Farmers' suicides news is no more important news in India ? Why anyone can spit on road ? Why Marathi people having problem from Bihari people ? Why some one beat some one just because of Religion, Cast, Language, Statehood ?
Because we are 5 minutes Indian. Because we love our nation, our mother land only for 5 minutes. That only on 15 August, 26 January, while sining national anthem or Pledge, after some incidence like 26/11, India wins against Pakistan, at end of movies like Rang De Basanti, The legend of Bhagat Singh, Swadesh, Nayak. We are Patriotic only for 5 minutes. Our Patriotism last for only 5 minutes. Lets change this. We must develop Patriotism in every Indians heart. Lets become true Indian for 24X7X365. For every hour and every minute. Please suggest me such ways ? Books ? Movies ? Activities ? I want to live every second with full of Patriotism.

Demo for "Friendly arm" board and tool chain

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:42:03 PST

The Open ARM Lab meeting for this week will be held on Sunday, 14th November 2010.
Agenda: Demo for "Friendly arm" board and tool chain
Speaker: Chaitannya Mahatme
Date: 14 Nov 2010
Time: 11 AM to 2 PM
Agenda: Demo for "Friendly arm" board and tool chain
Venue: DSK Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd. "Ramashree", 3rd Floor, 1206/30 Off J.M. Road, Shivaji Nagar, Pune 411005 Maharashtra, India Tel No.:: 020- 25511481/ 482.
Venue Map: Goolge Map

OMAP Tutorial Hour - Repeat sessions

noreply@blogger.com (Amit Karpe) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:13:14 PST

Updated:

Video recording from the session is available at https://gforge.ti.com/gf/project/omappedia/docman/?subdir=49

Details on the past sessions and archives including the presentation slides and video recordings can be obtained from

http://omappedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_Hour_Topics#Past_Sessions_.26_Archives
Presentation "Introduction to Panda Board".

Panda Board Introduction

From: Thondar, Geetha <geethat@ti.com> on Panda Board mailing list.

Hello All,

Please find details on the upcoming "OMAP Tutorial Hour" that will be hosted on Nov 15^th, Mon. There will be 2 sessions - 7 am & 1 pm CST (Central Standard Time) (UTC-5).
These are Repeat Sessions from Oct to help the new users of the PandaBoard community and to suit the different time zones.
http://omappedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_Hour_Topics
Topics:
· Introducing PandaBoard - Presented by Nipuna Gunasekera / Jayabharath Goluguri
· Your guide to OMAPpedia - Presented by Geetha Thondar
7 am session:
WebEx URL:  https://ti.webex.com/ti/j.php?ED=127004942&UID=0&RT=MiM3 
Meeting Number: 757 998 605
Meeting Password: None
 
1 pm session:
WebEx URL:  https://ti.webex.com/ti/j.php?ED=127006022&UID=0&RT=MiM3 
Meeting Number: 759 506 916
Meeting Password: None
 
Teleconference Participant Code (same for both sessions): 42691576
Teleconference bridge number in USA: 1-877-561-6828 or (972) 995 7777
Teleconference bridge numbers for other countries please visit:

 http://www.ticonferencing.com/globalaccess/
We invite you to present in a future session – please suggest your topics at: http://www.omappedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_Hour_Topics

Thanks!

Amit Karpe

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OMAP Tutorial Hour - Repeat sessions

Please find details on the upcoming "OMAP Tutorial Hour" that will be hosted on Nov 15th, Mon. There will be 2 sessions - 7 am & 1 pm CST (Central Standard Time) (UTC-5).

These are Repeat Sessions from Oct to help the new users of the PandaBoard community and to suit the different time zones.

http://omappedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_Hour_Topics

Topics:

· Introducing PandaBoard - Presented by Nipuna Gunasekera / Jayabharath Goluguri

· Your guide to OMAPpedia - Presented by Geetha Thondar

Please find details on the upcoming "OMAP Tutorial Hour" that will be hosted on Nov 15^th, Mon. There will be 2 sessions - 7 am & 1 pm CST (Central Standard Time) (UTC-5).