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	<title>Open Source Buzz &#187; Education</title>
	<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com</link>
	<description>On Technology, Community, Culture</description>
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		<title>Letting Students Blog: Why India&#8217;s universities need student blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[India has tens of well known, reputable universities - Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Management (IIMs), and medical colleges including AFMC and AIIMS. Tens of thousands of students from all over Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as from within India itself, apply to these institutions every year. The current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/10/03/why-indias-universities-need-student-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Red Hat organizes Professors&#8217; Open Source Camp in Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professors&#8217; Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE), a training bootcamp targeted for faculty members of technical universities in Asia is being organized from November 9-13, 2009 at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore. Faculty members from Singapore, Malaysia, China, India are expected to participate.
The first camp was held in Raleigh, North Carolina earlier this year in July.
The goals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/10/02/red-hat-organizes-professors-open-source-camp-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>At OSCON 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The O&#8217;Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) moved down from Portland to San Jose this year. Here are some highlights of my experiences at the conference this time.
What did I like?
Community
Why does every open source developer, entrepreneur and evangelist want to be at OSCON every year? More precisely, why do I like to be at OSCON [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/07/31/at-oscon-2009/</link>
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		<title>Looking at the Art of Community Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Code, collaboration and community are the pillars of open source. Every successful open source software project has an active community around it that reflects the project&#8217;s priorities and character.  Since the core concern of most open source projects is code, their communities are typically focused on developers and on producing good code.
But other areas also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/05/17/looking-at-the-art-of-community-management/</link>
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		<title>Scilab workshop for teachers at Bhaskaracharya Institute of Mathematics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bhaskaracharya Institute of Mathematics in Pune is organizing full-day workshops on Scilab specifically targeted for teachers.
This program is organized jointly by BP and IIT Bombay. Prof. Katre and Manjusha Joshi of BP have been prime movers in organizing these workshops and activists in spreading the use of open source software for mathematics analysis and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/05/10/scilab-workshop-for-teachers-at-bhaskaracharya-institute-of-mathematics/</link>
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		<title>Are you ready to Ubunchu!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Ubunchu, a comic book for Ubuntu, was published in Japanese. Ubunchu is about three students in a sysadmin club who are learning about Ubuntu. Japanese Manga artist (Mangaka) Hiroshi Seo is the creator of this comic series and his first edition has already been translated into English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/04/23/are-you-ready-to-ubunchu/</link>
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		<title>GSoC 2009 - India Participates in Global Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In five years, Google&#8217;s Summer of Code program has grown open source awareness as well as built contributors on a global scale. The GSoC 2009 program has announced its list of students for this year&#8217;s projects. 1000 students from 70 countries have been selected to work with mentors on over 150 open source projects. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/04/22/gsoc-2009-india-participates-in-global-open-source/</link>
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		<title>Ruby on Rails in Hyderabad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twincling Technology Foundation is organizing a half-day &#8220;Ruby on Rails&#8221; technology session on March 14th, 2009 in Hyderabad. This session will be conducted by Technetra&#8217;s Robert Adkins, an expert developer in Ruby and Ruby on Rails and an active open source contributor.
This tech session will be an introduction and tutorial on Rails.
The session will start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/03/11/ruby-on-rails-in-hyderabad/</link>
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		<title>Today is International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[International Women&#8217;s Day on March 8 celebrates the many achievements of women all over the world. This day symbolizes the positive changes that are happening in every walk of life for women - in education, in healthcare, in business, in government, in politics and in technology.
But more needs to be done. I&#8217;d like to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/03/08/today-is-international-womens-day/</link>
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		<title>GNUnify 2009: Community Support Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been supporting GNUnify in Pune for many years now. And every year it has been great to see the deep support of local organizations like the Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG), Pune Tech and others.
GNUnify has come a long way. It started off as a small college festival in 2003 and has blossomed into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opensourcebuzz.technetra.com/2009/03/08/gnunify-2009-community-support-matters/</link>
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