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Summer of Code 2006

shauryaanand — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:47:00 GMT

Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place last summer, brought together 400 students and 40 mentoring organizations from 49 countries. We'd like to include even more organizations and participants this year.

The program's goals are to inspire young developers and provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer, and to support existing open source projects and organizations. Since we're looking to find developers around the world (many of whom may have considered creating open source software but havent yet taken the plunge), we felt that concentrating on the student population was a good place to focus our efforts. Further, since no single organization could possibly mentor hundreds of students working on disparate projects, we thought it made sense to spread the work throughout the open source and free software community. We also think that the Apache Software Foundation (for instance) knows a lot more about what an Apache project needs than Google does and is more likely to ensure that an applicant gets the right kind of guidance so they can create acceptable code.

http://code.google.com/soc/

The World eBook Fair, Free Access to Over 350,000 PDF eBooks

shauryaanand — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:41:00 GMT

World eBook Fair Collection shelves more than 330,000 PDF eBooks in 100+ languages, contains 90 of the finest eBook collections published on the Internet today.

http://www.worldebookfair.com/

Office Validation Program Goes Live

shauryaanand — Mon, 01 May 2006 17:39:00 GMT

Just days after announcing its plans to attempt to thwart Office piracy by using the same kind of validation mechanism it has instituted for Windows, Microsoft posted for download the first Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validated component. For now, OGA validation is voluntary; Microsoft declined to respond to our questions as to when OGA would become mandatory.

Bangalooru, Mangalooru, Mysooru, and more! Is this right?

shauryaanand — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:52:00 GMT

I was shocked when I saw the newspaper this morning. After changing the name of Bangalore to Bangalooru, the government here has changed the names for the rest of the cities within the state. The list goes like this; Mangalore will be Mangalooru, Mysore Mysooru, Hubli to Huballi, Gulbarga becomes Kalburgi and Belgaum will soon be called Belagaavi. God! This is so ridiculous; New names for all major cities within Karnataka! Changing the names of these cities can prove quite lethal to the economy of the state. People don’t understand the market stands and continue to change the names all because they want Karnataka as their local possession. The name change effects are going to happen next year around November. I seriously don’t want to be called a Bangalooru jackass! Do cast your views here. I would also like to know international comments on changing the name of the IT Capital of India, Bangalore.

Google's Bangalore!

shauryaanand — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:06:00 GMT

Google's Bangalore! ha..ha..!! :D

Where're you guys?

shauryaanand — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:54:00 GMT

We all see loads of Indians registering at the moment! This is very nice and exhaling to see my country mates showing overwhelming enthusiasm for theSpoke. Good work people but I request you to participate in the given too. Do participate at the forum and blog away! I find that the participation from the Indians is pretty less [I could be wrong, don't misunderstand me]. Anyways, my basic theme is to ask people out there to participate more and help the community grow. Go people!

Code4Bill

shauryaanand — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:15:00 GMT

At the Launch at Bangalore, Bill Gates announced a unique competition for all Indian final/pre-final students. The winner will get a chance to work with Bill Gates as an intern. The competition official starts on 1st of January next year. Meanwhile you can check the sample questions available at the site. This a great oppurtunity for all of us here from India. Best of luck to all going for this. What a way to start the new year! Awesome!!

That was a long break!

shauryaanand — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:24:00 GMT

Hi everybody! I'm back after a pretty long "so" break! It's nice to see loads of activity buzzing @ theSpoke.. Pretty nice! Lemme tell you what I've been up with all this time..!! First thing i got after my vacation started was "the Internet" and the next: my results *(which had not been possible in the formers absence lol)* so my results::: HAHA.. I managed to get 8 point something (our gpa is graded on a 10 pointer scale).. It's a okie-dokie grade in my coll.. as half of the students in my batch scored 9 above.. (Wat a sys| seriously dumb).. anyways.. I then moved on to do something like a project (keeping Imagine Cup in mind)!! Oh yes.. before we all left for our hols; my team was made!! Its called "Phyxsius" (after an inspiring key dialog word from the movie "The Replacements").. We also have a team logo; which I'll be putting up when I switch to IE (Windows)[I'm using linux now] ;; so later>> now my team members... they are anuj and subhomoy(sorry if i spelt it wrong).. They're from Bio medical branch from my coll and are seriously cool in instrumentations. they have also done loads of training at great hospitals in india.. this makes us a good team for the imagine cup theme... now we have started our work for the competition in a very smooth cream.. we also registered this project at Microsoft Academic Project Program and National Institute of Mental Healths And Neural Sciences [NIMHANS].. Funded by NIMHANS and Manipal Hospitals.. We plan to bang the party!! lol... Anyways... for now ;;; THIS WHOLE WEEK [ awesome ] i'm gonna be free and free and free [yipee!!].. I'm off from the workplace also and no studies... what more can I ask!! now.. i'll go sleep and wait for tomo... till then all my friends @ Spoke: Have fun!! :) ca!

Wow! Google Live!

shauryaanand — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:33:00 GMT

Check http://www.netvibes.com/ a replica of Windows live!!

This page got all the features that Windows live has except that its Google oriented! *damn it*

I jus wonder who copied whom!! Nyways.. check them and enjoy!! :)

<< i took a break from studying and here i'm writing this post :P >>

I'll miss Spokes!

shauryaanand — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:49:00 GMT

man... my semester xams are up... guess wen's it?? 11 nov... and guess another thing... i haven't started my studies... its all so screwed!! i need a break... i need to explore the jus installed visual studio... i need to complete my pending projects... i needn't waste my time STUDYing... I hate the education system followed in my country... wat they need is all marks ... they never see your skills.. !! god it's no use cursing... i'll be off for two weeks... imagine two weeks without spokes.... anyways.. i gotta scrore marks to keep my parents happy... i'll do so... and catch up with the spokes once a while wen i check my mail after every exams... see ya spokes....!! miss you all ... !! :(

Finally.. I'm alive!

shauryaanand — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:52:00 GMT

Finally ... :)

Meet the Flocker!

shauryaanand — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:58:00 GMT

Check Flock. A new web browser under build.. This is base on Firefox's open codes and is pretty neat. It's definately flashy compared to Firefox and has nice features that include, blogging directly(which is not so cool as we already have word plugins available), photo upload (kinda cool), staring the page (something to talk about), and a few more.. blah.. blah..

I dunno why i find it faster compared to firefox.. may be its jus my mind or is it something for really.. for now.. no comments... i'm waitin for it to be benchmarked and see the results.. till then, its my semester exams :'-(

Flazx : Free e-books!

shauryaanand — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:18:00 GMT

Here you get all loads of e-books free to download.. it's really great! If you got a book and would like to share with it, you can even upload them! For this you gotta be a member! Downloading is pretty simple too! jus select the book and download it from the link provided.. you can also report if a dead link is encountered!

[Thanks to Aswin from BDotNETStudent for this link] :)

Solaris 10 University Challenge Contest

shauryaanand — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:03:00 GMT

I may be wrong posting another college challenge from SUN at TheSpoke [Microsoft].. Pls excuse me if you don't find it right!

Windows (a)Live!

shauryaanand — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:40:00 GMT

What is Windows Live?

Your online world gets better when everything works simply and effortlessly together. That's the basic idea behind Windows Live. So the things you care about - your friends, the latest information, your e-mails, powerful search, your PC files, everything – comes together in one place. This is a brand new Internet experience designed to put you in control. And this is just the beginning – you'll see many more new services in the coming months.
Learn More

You can try the beta here!

You can also make gadgets here and also enter a chance to win Xbox 360!

For press release click here!