TechKshetra 2010 the Technical extravaganza by Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kakkanad, will kick start tomorrow. TeckShetra as the name suggest will be the kurukshetra for the tech minded. the battle between the best and the best, the war between the tech and the tech. It will be the beginning of a brand new era in the tech arena of kerala.

Fine tuning the pillars of tomorrow, the students, is the main objective of Techkshetra. Cherishing this very ideal, techKshetra 2010 invites one and all to Kerala’s finest technological extravaganza. techKshetra 2010 is envisioned to be a rare confluence of academia, industry and students. techKshetra 2010 promises you a whole day of euphoric activity – competitions, exhibitions, distinguished lecture series, workshops, on-the-spot events, awe-inspiring shows- an adventure fulfilling the holy trinity of science – reason, observation and experience. techKshetra 2010 is conceptualized to be a platform for the budding scientists and engineers of tomorrow to showcase their talents. techKshetra 2010 envisions the rapid advancement of the country by identifying and nurturing indigenous talent.

Fun , Games, Projects you name it you have it to battle it out . Tech-related stuff, fun and random events, online games , Presentations, Seminars etc etc etc. The Sponsors list promises the prizes would be something real big. A nokia 5233 is a sure prize for a lucky person in there. and there are Random Prizes for random events.. So back out from the event at your own risk of losing the prizes

The Announced evens are Paintball, Project Expo , Geekoder (C++ coding competition with a twist) , HashInclude (platform for high level programmers) , Circuitrix (Circuit Debugging ) , Labyrinth (a classic robotics competition) , Pentathlon (the battleground of ’complete’ engineers) , Deadlock (a Klueless type online quiz) , Trivia town (quizzzzzzzz!!! ) , Programmics (online competition hosted on codechef platform) , The One (testing your all round skills) , The Arena (Games unleashed.. FIFA Counterstrike etc with a twist )

For More Details  log on to www.techkshetra.com

The next BarCamp Kerala(8) is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on 28^th 0f March(2010) BarCamp Kerala(or BCK) is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

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. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. When this post was written we have 56 attendees.

Sessions

If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

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

• BarCamp Kerala 5 @ Technopark on May 3rd
• BarCamp Kerala edition – 2
• BarCamp Kerala 6 – A Personal Account
• Barcamp Kerala 6
• Kerala BarCamp 2 – In Cochin

It is about a week since Facebook revealed its new design to users world wide..   the design in a look is neat and good.. but i feel like they have made a mess up regarding few items..

The Notifications were earlier shown on the right side portion of the bottom bar which used to be static at that place ..   it always helped to know about the notification almost instantly..  in the new design they have made the notifications appear on the TOP bar which gets scrolled out along with the page this makes it a uneasy to know the notifications if the page is scrolled a little bit down .   I feel this as a real  discomfort  with notifications because of this change.

Some times when adding friends the add to list is not shown .. especially when someone refers a friend.. this is making it difficult for me to manage friends when you have a lot of friends..   and the process of adding an unlisted  friend to a list is cluttered now.. you have to select the list take the edit list  and browse through the friends list and add the single friend to that list.  the older way of adding a friend to a list was easier to do

i hope facebook will take care of these usability issues in their next FaceLift

BarCamp is back with the Christmas edition. This Time Barcamp christmas edition will be hosted at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, changanassery, Kottayam . The  BarCamp Kerala 7 (BCK7), is scheduled for 20th December 2009.

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences (or unconferences) – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The BarCamps focus on web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats and almost anything you can relate to technology . 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 BarCampKerala7!

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Barcamp Kerala Christmas Edition

The Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of InfoPark Kochi Phase II  at kunnathunadu & puthencuruz village of kunnathunadu taluk will be done by Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala Shri V.S. Achuthanandan on 28th nov 2009(saturday)  at 11.30 am.. The Functions will be held at Kochi infopark Campus at Kakkanad.

It sounds like a very good gesture from the part of kerala towards the Development of IT infrastructure in the state despite the backlash of the much hyped Smart City Kochi Project.  My prayers for the Project to be successful and a great milestone in Development of  the Country

Avast! my favorite anti-virus solution is all set to celebrate its 100,000,000 users.

From their Website

I’ve been using Avast for the past 4 years and it is one gem of a software that has never let me down.

Wishing Avast all the best for the years to come.