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Who we are:
We are the team behind the What I Say! Blog – India’s hottest emerging review blog

What is to be made:

1. A new web design for our Wordpress blog
2. A new logo + Avatar/Display Pics for the various social network
3. A new Twitter Background + other social media assets as needed
4. Some other things might come up in between as well, this is very open ended right now

What will you give:

1. All logos and arts in a vector format of your choice
2. A HTML+CSS website design (we can also try and work on a image-based design only as well), in any case, we will use the design given by you to code our own wordpress theme
3. All work will be done by you under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India License

What will you get:

1. A Credit mention in the website footer (visible on all pages)
2. We will sell the design made by you (coded by us as a theme) as a premium wordpress theme at a price that will be decided after the theme has been made and 25% of the first 10 sales will be shared with you on your Paypal.

Contact for more details at: relations@whatisay.in, mention in subject: “New Design from the InterTubez“

Mid-Day did an interview with me on one of the community Initiatives I am working on – Indie Game Development, India, Community. The interview is included below:

Gaming is no more a waste of time, it’s serious business. and even if it isn’t, who cares? Living by this law are the members of a freshly formed community DiningCamps. Its founder Kinshuk explains the highs of the game

Not many understand that online or console games develop intelligence, skills and decision-making power.

Especially, IT administrators give video-gamers a hard time because they consider gaming applications as a wastage of space, conducive to viruses and obviously and impedence to Internet speed.

They realise that these very geeks are probably much smarter and creative than you. Here comes a group of game developers who not only want to shed all the myths about gaming, but also give it a corporate twist.

Over to Kinshuk.

Read full interview on Mid-Day website. OR read the scan below (click on image to full view the article)

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!

I am looking for a decent collabware that supports intuitive task management, project management, document management and knowledge-base management plus some aspects of social networking for internal employees, specifically for a small business or a startup. So, I have done a brief preliminary research and highlighted the following products for a quick peek, and then will make an informed choice. The list includes:

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