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The next BarCamp Kerala(8) is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on 28^th 2010f March(2010) For the techies in Kerala, BarCamp Kerala aka BCK is the can’t-miss event.

Hearing the word ‘barcamp’ for the first time?

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

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Venue

BCK 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. For more details, go here

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. So far we have 55 attendees.

Sessions

When this post was written we have 5 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions , you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still unconfident about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• Barcamp kerala 6
• Barcamp Kerala 6
• BarCamp Kerala edition – 2
• BarCamp Kerala Part 5
• At Barcamp 7

Campus Bloggers Meetup is scheduled to be conducted on Jan. 26, 2010 at Cochin. Many informative Session and robotics demo arranged. Every one is invited for the event. Limited seats available.!!!

Department of computer science and engineering (ACES) of Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology are conducting a three day International Symposium called EMINENCE 2009 from 16th November to 18th November 2009.

Eminenet Speakers from various institutues from India and abroad like Mr. Joseph Sirosh, Vice President ,AMAZON.COM,Seattle,USA, Mr. Sunil Thankamushy, Former animation director of EA games, Currently CEO of Deep Blue Inc.,LA,USA, Mr. V Manikantan, CEO, SAP(WIPRO), Mr. Arafath Aboobacker, Team-Lead Technical, NIIT Technologies, Bangalore. are the main attraction of the symposium.

Each day has a distinct theme namely Technical (Day 1), Entrepreneurship (Day 2) and Soft Skills (Day 3).There is a conference on the second day on developing Entrepreneurship in which delegates from different companies likeWipro,Adobe,HP,Igate,UST global,TCS, Mind tree, Infosys, and more will participate. On the third day we have a talk on building leadership and soft skills by Mr. Edison Franz.

Ten Technical and non technical competitions are another attraction Eminence 09

Ten Top Directors of Malayalam Movie Industry join hands together for a new movie Kerala cafe which is setting a new milestone in the history of malayalam movie industry. Innovative ideas always comes from campuses. These Directors are also the product of 10 different campus in kerala. They designed a cool poster in which they are requesting students to analyze this movie.

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The students now in our campuses are the future of India. Budding Directors, Artists, Leaders, Engineers, Professors are among us. The famous music director M.Jayachandran is an Electrical engineer from CET. New Generation Music Director Rahul Raj is a B.tech graduate from CUSAT.We could make a long list of Successful Engineers in Movie and other industries. So next time when your friend tell you about a short film or music album, dont ignore him. He may be the future of indian Movie Industry

Campus Blogs are the platform for sharing your hidden talents. Remember our caption " Discovering Talents Every day". So Come up with your creative ideas like Short Films, Stories, Cartoons animations or anything like that. Dont ignore any piece of creative talent in our campus, share it to others..

GreenDream – An enviornmental network in Kerala along with IYCN Bangalore, Hyderbad and Chennai is organising The Green Ride- A 1400 km cycling tour.

Why 1400 kms ? This Distance is four times the most important number: 350 x 4 = 1400 km.

While 350 represents the safe limit of CO2 in the atmosphere, the number 4 represents the actions in the four directions : North , south , east and West. The cycling tour starts at 3:50pm (ppm).

This cycling, tour spanning a distance of 1400km, starts from Trivandrum to Chennai , Tamil Nadu through Bangalore. The main focus of this tour will be raise awareness through the way, and raise critical concern among the leaders and decision makers.

While awareness about climate change is increasing, the world has not yet mobilized into action and implementation of climate solutions. We are looking for support to change this reality and create, communicate and celebrate the solutions to climate change during The Green Ride to Copenhagen which will also make students and the general public aware of the role of renewable energy and green technology in developing a sustainable future and economically vibrant India.

By undertaking this Cycling tour, we will lobby for the rights of cyclists and for laws that offer protection to cyclists through dedicated cycling lanes as well as through support for safety regulations. We hope to work with the government administration to bring about change aimed at encouraging cycling in our cities, and also aimed at promoting cycling as a greener, cleaner and healthier mode of transport.
Objectives of Road to Copenhagen Cycling tour-

• To create awareness among people on Climate Change
• To involve and encourage student participation in such environmental activities.
• To harness the power of the media through the course of the tour in order to reach a larger group of society.
• To ensure safety norms at all times with emergency backup support.
• To partner with regional NGOs and organizations and create a climate action network.
• To utilize corporate support for ensuring a successful event.
• Target Audience : Public from all walks of life, youth who could get inspired by our campaigns and lead on to do the same in their regions, people who love to cycle, people who love to raise an awareness on the cause, enthusiastic about the environment, people who could literally make a difference, people who could stand up for what is justified and right, getting maximum youth insight onto the fight for a solution for Climate change and Global warming, public who could welcome such an initiative by the youth and have the same transferred into their lives as well.
• Media Converage: For mass outreach to public for general awareness. Raising concerns and debates among leaders, decision makers, and critics.

for more info contact :

Vinuju Nizar Yousuf
      Co-founder, State Campaigns Coordinator

      GreenDream

      09995118995

MAD has entered an online competition called Indiya Shine Awards, that identifies new and promising organizations in India and promotes them in their Magazine “Little India” which is the largest overseas Indian Publication. MAD- Make a Difference is an Organization of young people working amongst orphans and other underprivileged kids to provide them with quality education

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If you have ever got an opportunity to interact with their volunteers or children and if they have touched your life in any way, do take 2 mins and write a two line review about them here

http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/make-a-difference

It would help create awareness about their work and raise some funds for their activities in India. If you have the time, do check out our blog: www.makeadiff.in/blog to a sneak peak on what’s going on in MAD

Barcamp is back. Barcamp kerala 6 will happen at the serene campus of Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kakkanad on the 11th of October 2009. Barcamp is not new to Cochin, Barcamp Kerala 2& 3 were hosted by the Cochin University Campus.

For those who raise their eye brows on hearing the word bar.. Barcamp has nothing to do with drinking or bars.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There are no registration fees or any charges for a barcamp as this is a user-generated conference. You are invited to volunteer for various activities for putting up a successful camp.

BarCamp Kerala is your best chance to meetup all the coolest techies from Kerala. If you are a techie of any scale, do make it to BarCampKerala!

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Climate change is putting life on earth in peril. There is still time to build a greener, safer world. But the clock is ticking. In December world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide our destiny.We want our political leaders to be in Copenhagen and to show historic leadership in achieving a treaty which is fabulous.The world needs a wake-up call on climate change. In September a perfect storm will gather with the the UN General Assembly on Sept 22 and the G20 leaders meet on 24-25.
A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.
In Kerala, the flash mob will be held in Trivandrum, the capital at 3.50 pm..Calling all youth out for a once-again Youth Climate Action to show that a demand is needed from the public side for a binding treaty by all the world leaders and we want our leaders to know and understand that the time to act and take up actions is NOW

flash mob happened in cochin

On August 29th, the Flash Mob conducted at Oberon Mall, in Cochin,was successful in sending a strong voice to the public regarding the importance of the UN summit on Climate Change to be held from Dec7 in Copenhagen..Also the day saw hundreds of youth from different parts of the state,supporting organizations

ExNoRa, a non-government Chennai-based voluntary environmental service organisation, has launched a a massive Cool the Globe campaign by name, “99999 lights out” to create awareness on global warming, its causes, consequences and solutions. The campaign carries the message – switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month on the 9th year of the millennium. The aim of the 99999 Lights Out Campaign is to combat Global warming, to make people more conscious about the environment, to motivate people to reduce their respective carbon footprint, to mitigate climate change and to teach people Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness techniques.

How can you contribute?

Grow more trees. Use Energy efficient equipments. Practice transport simplicity, Switch on lights only when it is necessary, Turn off your lights when not in use. Adapt an eco-friendly lifestyle. Reduce waste & Conserve water. Trap methane and convert it as fuel.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham join hands with Buffalo-SUNY University to organise a Indo-Us Conference & Workshop on CYBER Security,CYBER Crime and CYBER FORENSICS from 19th of August 2009 to 21st of August 2009 at at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (AIMS), Amrita Lane, AIMS Ponekkara Post, Kochi, Kerala 682 041, India.

Indo Us Conference on Cyber Security,Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics

This program will have tutorials, and workshop sessions aimed at bringing eminent researchers from both academia and industry under one roof to discuss and deliberate on the best technologies and socio economic approaches to effectively thwart increasing threats of global cyber-crime and initiate cyber security defenses. A stimulating program is being planned featuring invited talks and tutorials from experts from the U.S. and India with panel discussions.