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NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOSS ADOPTION IN EDUCATION Saturday, August 27, 2011 C-DAC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai   About Workshop Many softwares have been developed for adopting technology in education for resource availability, sharing, and access to them even after school/college hours. There have also been developments aimed to ease other educational activities like course enrollment, conduct of examination from setting question papers to correcting answers and displaying results. Such softwares are available in the market in both forms proprietary and open source. Unlike the proprietary softwares, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) alternatives are free of cost, source code is available with the software, and the institution has freedom to modify the source code to customize the software as per requirement. For modification and maintenance the institution has full freedom to develop the required skills in-house with the help of faculties and system admin staff or they can choose to ...

It's not just by chance that most of the successful people in this world were successful at nearly everything they did in their life after being successful for first time. It's because they had adopted the habit of volunteering and making things happen, taking initiative and working on them to meet it's targets. So in future though they failed they got some experience and that helped in being successful in their next missions.   So waiting for success to come and then showing your metal is task of the lazies. It's not many times the domain that matters for success, it's the habit and way of doing things. It's in one way a general architecture which you can apply to any domain and be successful. But the sad news is that the architecture is not known to everybody, it's not written anywhere and people can't express it, they only can show it through their actions and deeds. And also it can't be learned by just watching people do it, it can be le...

खूप पावसाळे गेले. पण अगदी अलीकडे पर्यंत त्याला पाऊस कधीच आवडलेला नव्हता. पाऊस म्हंटल की त्याला भीती वाटायची, नसती कट कट वाटायची. भिजणे तर त्याला कधीच नको वाटायचे, उगाच सर्दी ला आमंत्रण. पण मागच्या पवसाळ्यात ढग असे आले आणि पाऊस इतका पडला की तो पावसाच्या प्रेमातच पडला. पाऊस आधीही पडायचा, कदाचित असाच, इतकाच किंवा जास्त ही. पण या वेळेस मात्र पाऊस एकटा आला नाही, त्याच्या आयुष्यात सोबत घेऊन आला तिच्या केसांचा ओला सुगंध. ती अशीच त्याला भेटली, अगदी अचानक आलेल्या मुंबईतल्या पावसासारखी, चिंब भिजलेली. त्याला ती आवडली आणि म्हणून पाऊस ही. ती त्याला पुन्हा भेटली, न ठरवून, अशीच पुन्हा एकदा अचानक पावसाराखीच. ते बोलले, थांबले, विसावले. ती समोर आली तेंव्हा पाऊस नव्हताच, ती अजून थोडी जवळ आली तेंव्हा ही पाऊस नव्हता. तो तिच्याकडे सारखा पहातच होता, पण नजर चोरून. आयुष्यात पहिल्यांदा त्याने पावसाकडे येण्याची विनवणी केली. आशेच्या नजरेने त्याने ढगांकडे पाहिले. ढग होते, पण अजून पाऊस मात्र नव्हता. तरी ही आजूबाजूंच्या झाडात, डोंगरात, फुलात आणि पाखरात ओलावा होताच. त्याच्या विनवनीने अखेर तो आला. रिम-झिम, रिम-झिम...

Below is a nice article from HBR for the recruiters. Students i.e. another side of the table can also get some tips from this. ---- It's  that time of year again , and many a manager's inbox has become flooded with the résumés of (very) soon-to-be college graduates . And while we most hiring managers are well-versed in best practices for  recruiting Millennials , it's amazing to us — as somewhat recent graduates ourselves — how many firms still make the same mistakes when hiring "the best" of Gen Y. Take this example from our experience of one  old-school hiring process, in which an IT firm disheartened several qualified candidates with an overly formal and invasive first-round interview. After a three-hour initial meeting, the firm had  mentally drained the young candidates  with surprise skill assessment tests and a last-minute decision to have them re-screened by multiple executives. To make matters worse, the candidates were confined to just a couple of roo...

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Digital, Mobile, and Social Media in India (April 2011) View more presentations from Simon Kemp .

Got the following email from  Lpad . This ( http://garage.lpad.in/ ) is quite interesting event and please do consider to attend if you are a willing to be  entrepreneur or willing to be developer at a startup. Who know what you do there might be a next big thing on web! ----- What is Startup Garage? A high-energy weekend program that brings together developers, designers, marketers and startup enthusiasts to start building startups from the ideas they have been sketching. Who should attend? 1. Someone with an idea they would like to validate and work on Or 2. Someone without an idea, but is curiously passionate to do a startup. When & Where? This edition of Startup Garage would be held in  Pune  over the coming weekend ( 29th April-1st May ) Interested? Click here  to read more. Questions? Write to i [at] Lpad.in or Call Mohit @ +91-99233-99213 Last date The last date for registration is  26...

Got the following email. Please attend if you are interested. ------ Dear All, We, at PGCAI, are very happy to announce the upcoming Child Adoption Meet in Bombay on April 30, 2011.  Please find below the details of the Child Adoption Meet on April 30, 2011 in Dadar, Bombay. Date: April 30, 2011 (Saturday) 4.00-7.00 pm Location:   SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Sion (W), Mumbai Participants: Participants would include  adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents, volunteers, NGOs, representatives of adoption agencies, children's homes, adoption specialists etc.  Agenda of the Meet: ·          To kickstart a quarterly forum for interaction between people passionate about the cause of promoting adoption awareness in Bombay. ·          To discuss key hurdles related to beginning the process of adoption and strategies to overcome the same · ...