Debian Utsav SICSR 26-02-2012

This post attempts to share some info. about Debian Utsav which was recently organized in SICSR, Pune on 26-02-2012

Minidebconf Mangalore day -0 part -4

Hi all,
This would be the last one about day 0 at Minidebconf Mangalore.

MiniDebconfPune2011 – Day1

This blog post would attempt to chronicle the experiences on day 1 of #minidebconfpune2011

Gnunify Day -2

This post attempts to state the events on Day 2 of GNUnify 2011

WX10 Celebrations -1

This would be a long post on the Wikipedia 10 Year Celebrations as lots of activity happened and there is/was lots to learn from that as well.

Last-mile Community Networks

This post is in response to a blog post posted by Abhishek who has been filing RTI for better transparent with our ISP’s and BSNL in general

Wikipedia Marathi Meetup 08/01/11

This post attempts to share the findings and experiences had in Pune Marathi Wikipedia meetup #WikiPuneri

Wikimedia Pune Meetup 4

This post would attempt to elaborate some of the ideas, thoughts and experiences while attending #WPMPN4 Wikipedia Pune Meetup-4. It would be a long post so read at leisure

The Intelligent Transportation System

Hi all,
This post attempts to share a conversation between a Keltron employee and me about the Intelligent Transportation System.

The Times Jobs Fair in Pune on 14th and 15th June 2008

Job Fair

This was really a wonderful experience. We participated as an experimentation to see how things would be. We wanted to see how the experience would be and if we are able to get few good guys and girls in the process for wikiocean.
What we learnt surprised us quite a bit. Below are some of the things we learnt at the job fair.

1. Freshers, experienced people all kinds of background, Sales, marketing, developers, Human Resources, Management graduates, all kinds of people were looking for opportunities to move around.

2. Number of people coming from other states and other cities were much more larger or prominent then people from the city. If this means the people from other cities were either insecure or were more curious and took advantage of the opportunity is for others to decide.

3. The number of people versus the number of stalls put up were insufficient meaning jobs.
a. The first day saw a turnout of 12,000 odd people and 10,000 odd people on the second day.
b. Even if one takes a progressive view of 1000 people by the 50 odd stalls that were put up, that means merely 5000 people, what about the rest of them? There are just not enough jobs. So not enough jobs to go around

4. Some of the biggies were conspicious by their absence. No Infosys, no TCS, either they don’t like the format or whatever there reasons might be.

5. Like it or not, due to the stagnation of the American economy which feeds quite a bit of the IT industry here its gonna be a slow thing atleast for few more months.

6. Due to fairs like this it makes for choices for both the employer and employee to talk, a good concept.

As they say a picture says a thousand words, so here are few:-

Mr. Vijay Tapse, Paritosh Pungaliya and yours truly

The floor plan of the stalls

The crowd

Crowd at stalls

The picture says its all