== AGENDA FOR OPENWEEKENDS ==
25-26th May 2013 | Railsfactory, Chennai | 10 a.m. To 4.30 p.m.
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=== DAY 1 ? 25TH MAY 2013 | TALK SESSIONS ===
1. Jai Pradeesh ? About Fedora; How its architecture is built, how it fares
better than other linux distros, Why Fedora?
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Jai is a student ambassador with the Fedora Project.
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2. Gautam Kumar - Basics of building a parser and lexer with ANTLR4,
Constructing a Grammar, Listener and Visitor Patterns and building a simple DSL
to generate html forms and an expression calculator
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Gautam is a software engineer with Orangescape Technologies, Chennai.
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3. Yogesh Girikumar ? Openstack 101 - What it is, how it works, why we need.
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Yogesh works for the CSS Corp and is a member of Open Stack community.
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4. Ravishankar ? Wordpress ? Hosting it, doing custom works in Wordpress and
doing business with it.
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5. Soumya Deb and Gauthamraj- Mozilla Contributor Mentoring Days ? how entry
level contribution to Mozilla can be made easy. How you may contribute to
Development, L10N, Design team, Web Dev, Webmaker and others within Mozilla
project.
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Soumya Deb is community member of Mozilla India and works for Red Hat.
Gauthamraj works for Tata Consultancy Services.
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=== DAY 2 ? 26TH MAY 2013 | WIKIPEDIA SESSIONS AND HACKATHON ===
1) Sibichakravarthi - Introduction to Wikipedia
2) Surya Prakash - Introduction to Translate Wiki
3) Shanmugam P - Introduction to Bots in Wiki projects
4) Bala Jeyaraman - Introduction to Wiki data
5) Raveendraboopathi - Photography Tutorial
== Hackathon Sessions ==
1. Mediawiki Hackathon
2. Firefox Hackathon ? You may build addons for Firefox, customize your browser
and make apps for the Firefox OS. There will be people to help you around.
There will also be Firefox phones to test your apps realtime [ Yay! :) ]
The talk and hackathon sessions will happen in parallel.
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== EVENT GUIDELINES ==
Venue address:
Railsfactory,
Sedin Technologies Private Limited,
# 38/39, 3rd Floor,
White's Road,
Royapettah,
Chennai (Near Sathyam cinemas)
Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/vGdfg
1. In between the event, we will be breaking for lunch. LUNCH will not be
provided for the participants and they'll have to bear it at their own cost.
Food and bevarages are not allowed inside the venue. Please help keep the place
clean.
2. Wifi internet connection will be provided at the venue. Please bring your
own laptops with power cables to work.
3. There is limited parking at the venue. Plan your travel accordingly.
4. You are encouraged to bring a personal ID of some kind (Driving license,
Student/Official ID etc.,)
5. You are responsible for your belongings.
6. Social :
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/152064334973643/?ref=3
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cn8njencpl3leg9t74bh2o5aklo
Twitter: Tweet realtime with #openweekends #chennai
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Don't hesitate to bug these guys:
Dwarak - +91-9003297595 | me at dwarak.in
Gauthamraj ?- +91-9789299422 | vallavan2valluvan at gmail.com
Dwarak.
http://www.dwarak.in ;