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CC Salons are global, informal events focused on building a community of artists, developers, and creators of all kinds around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology. The first event took place in San Francisco in 2006 with the idea to replicate in other locations internationally. Since then salons have sprung up in cities around Whether you’re familiar with Creative Commons or are brand new to the concepts behind it, we encourage you to check out a salon near you.

Come and be a part of Delhi’s First Creative Common Salon on February 28th at Sarai, CSDS. The event’s objective is to start the social collective of artists, developers and creators around the Creative Commons Licenses and standards.

Schedule

1.30 PM : Organiser’s Note + Introduction + Open House
2.00 PM : Playback of Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
(Playback of 45 minutes chat given by Mr. Lessig on February 25th 2010 with an additional 30 minutes of Q&A session)
3.30 PM : Focussed Sessions on Software Freedom, Creative Commons and Licenses
5.00 PM : Open House + Networking Sessions
6.00 PM : Roadmap for future CC Salons Delhi.
6.30 PM : Concluding Note

Expected Participations

A lot of content creators and thought leaders such as artists and conceptualizers are expected to participate at Creative Commons Salon Delhi. Also, an important chunk of the audience will be developers and from the technical domain.

Contact

Kinshuk Sunil (+91 99100 24895)
Mohak Prince (+91 98686 69175)

Updated Event Details: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Delhi_Salon

From What I Say:

The voting for Indibloggies 2008 are now open. Do vote for your favorite Indian Blogs. Started in the year 2003, Indibloggies is one of the initial web awards for Indian Blogs on the blogosphere. Started as a parody of the international Bloggies, Indibloggies has sure come a long way.

The reader’s community nominated their favorite blogs in the first phase. The Indibloggies Jury then shortlisted the finalists from the many contenders for the 16 categories in the second phase. The third and final phase is now running – that of community voting – and will end on December 10th. I was glad to be a part of the jury of this Indibloggies and know that it was a very impartial and fun filled process.

The sponsors for the awards include Wordpress and Zoho amongst other sponsors. The awards are also looking for Gold and Platinum sponsors. So it might a good idea if your organization can sponsor them.

So what are you waiting for? Go and vote for your favorite Indian Blogs – the ball is in your court!

Folks

I have been working on this idea and concept for some time now. Since, my early open source game-dev days (early 2004), I have felt the need for having a pan-india indie game development community. Me and Yadu kept discussing it for so long, its hard to even recall. This all happened while we kept jumping projects on Sourceforge.net and then Launchpad.net.

November 2008, saw the setting up of a mailing list on Google Groups. I called it Indie Game Developers India (InGDIn) community. With no active promotion taking place, the community kept growing at a snail’s pace to the present day 32. That was until yesterday.

On September 2, 2009, Yadu and I, we have finally come up with the InGDIn Community formally. Currently, the website is under development – so we have an active presence on Facebook. See the InGDIn Page on facebook and become a fan as well (just to stay updated). InGDIn is also on twitter now! Follow us!

To propel the whole idea forward, and give us momentum, we have also come up with the idea of DiningCamps (organised by InGDIn). The objectives of DiningCamps are three-folds:

1. Create a platform to interact and network with people interested in game development – create a talent pool
2. Create a platform to showcase one’s work, find team members, investors and publishers – create an indie marketplace
3. Have loads of fun while doing the above both

A lot of stuff has still to be planned. Check out the event page on facebook – DiningCamp 04.10

A lot more will follow… keep your fingers crossed!

Have fun!

Folks,

I have 10 invites for the CodeChef Tech Talk Geek Symposium scheduled for Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad on September 11, 12 and 13. For more details about the event, please read the CodeChef Website.

These invites are available courtesy the CodeChef community for the OSScamp Community. If you are interested in participating at the event, please leave a comment on the post on the OSScamp Community Blog.

Hope to catch you all on OSScamp Delhi September 2009.

I also have another exciting announcement, coming up in the next blog post. Watch out!

Hello All

Just wanted to update you all about the next OSScamp Delhi September 2009. OSScamp Delhi has been scheduled for September 5-6, 2009. The venue is NSIT, Dwarka.

What are OSScamps?
OSScamps are community-driven events where technology enthusiasts come together to celebrate technology. Its a two-day action packed event with loads of open source karma. Being an unconference means that it i snot as formal and boring as a conference, yet higher in knowledge richness. We already have anout 50 registerations. We are expecting over 300 people to turn up at the camp. The registered talks as of now are:

1. Programming OpenOffice.org
2. Game Development with Open Source
3. Go Green – Save Power
4. Customization of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) using open source technology
5. Porting Softwares to OpenSolaris
6. Working with MVC framework PHP & Ruby
7. A generic approach to Blender 3D
8. Social Network (Open Source)
9. Getting Started with Scala
10. many more to come, keep watching

Details about the event: http://osscamp.in/event/osscamp-delhi-september-2009
Register for the Event: http://osscamp.in/node/162/signups
Add a Talk on the event: http://osscamp.in/node/add/talk

Help us spread the word by blogging about us, tweeting about us, making loads of noise, and stuff.

Hope to see you there!
Kinshuk