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Society

• EmpoweringIndia.org - Compiling Candidate Affidavit Data - Building a Vibrant Polity

Zainab Bawa

• Cycling to work

Pradeep B V, pradeep [at] mapunity [dot] in, cycling.bikeszone.com, Bangalore Bikers Club

  This will be interactive session trying to find out the pros and cons of cycling/biking to work. 
  I request other bikers out there who commute to office by bikes to come over and help me out in this session.
  Annex: Touring on Bicycles - Things you need to think about.

  We will try to address the most common questions like
  1. Is it safe? How can you ride a bicycle in such a mad traffic? 
  2. How to reach before office bus, boss' car and colleagues motor-bike?
  3. How do you take care of the stink due to sweating it out on the way to office?
  4. Where can I buy bikes and accessories?
  5. Where can I meet other bikers who bike to work regularly?
  6. Common mistakes to avoid when you start cycling after ages.
  7. Locks, locks, locks. How to keep it safe?
  8. Basic DIYs courtesy BOTS
  9. What/how to buy - frame size, saddle height, road vs mountain...
  10. Have a dekko at a few cool bikes.
 
  If you are bike2work kinda person and want to help out in this session, add <your name,email,blog/website> below:
  1. Shree Kumar {gmail} shree DOT shree, un-blog at http://www.shreekumar.in/ 
  2. Swaroop, swaroop (at) swaroopch.com, http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/category/cycling/
  3. Varun, varun (at) varunprabhakar.com, http://www.varunprabhakar.com
  4. Vikram Chadaga, vikram (at) chadaga.com, http://www.chadaga.com
  5. Vivek Tulsidas, tulsidas DOT vivek (at) gmail DOT com , blog at http://tulsidas.wordpress.com
  6. supreeth, hallidude(at)gmail(dot)com
  7. Krishna Prasad, srinivasan DOT kp(at)gmail(dot)com
  8. Sukrit D, sukritd @ sevenacross(dot)com, http://sevenacross.com/ http://pondicity.com
  9. Kumar.A.P.P, thevolts@gmail.com, http://sparsham.com/category/environment/
  10. Naimisha, redsilkroute[at]gmail[dot]com, http://dreamsinmagenta.blogspot.com/ 
  11. Sameer Shisodia, get.sameer[-AHT-]gmail.com, http://bangalorekaapi.blogspot.com/search/label/bike
  12. Mallika, maliika DOT skp(at)gmail(dot)com
  13. Prasant Mohanty, prasmohanty DOT in (at)gmail(dot)com
  14. Abhijith B Rao, abhi (at) bikeszone (dot) com, http://cycling.bikeszone.com
  15. Arun Raghavan, arunissatan {yat] gmail, http://nemesis.accosted.net/
  16. <Srikanth,srikanth.hn(at)gmail(dot)com> 
  17. Subramanya, subramanya.ks{AT}gmail{dot}com 
  18. <your name,email,blog/website> (please add your name & keep the line)

  Additionally, please add to the list below about what kind of bike you'd be coming to the venue in --
  1. Hero Thunder MTB (modified)
  2. Trek 4300D (dirty frame)
  3. Hero Thunder MTB (parts upgraded) 
  4. Firefox 
  5. Hercules Apex (plain vanilla bike) 
  6. Merida MATTS SUB 40-V
  7. Giant Peleton 7000
  8. Hero Hawk Nu Age with a blow horn
  9. Hero Thunder MTB (Modified)
  10. Trek 4500/ Trek 6000 
  11. Merida SUB 40-V (little piece of heaven)
  12. Firefox Cyclone 
   13. <your-bike> (please add your bike & keep the line)

• Craft Industry in India

Nischala Agnihotri, nischalagnihotri@gmail.com, bharatentrepreneurship.blogspot.com

 ...their export market reaction and involvement of rural India.

• RSI - What a Pain in the Wrist

Guillaume Marceau

 Repetitive Stress Injury is the pain you feel when you type too much.
 RSI is hard to treat. Joins are notoriously bad healers and overall 
 not very well understood.  Nevertheless, it is possible to recover from
 RSI, or better yet, to avoid it altogether.

• Election Watch and Transparency in Politics

Sridhar Pabbisetty (psridharp@gmail.com) and Prof. Trilochan Sastry (trilochans@iimb.ernet.in) kew2008.wordpress.com, adrindia.org

  1. A discussion on the recent CIC order allowing people access to the audited financial statements of the political parties
     obtained under RTI.
  2. Process of election watch for a few of the recent elections. In particular recent Karnataka state Elections.
  3. Discuss about the plans for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
  4. During the recent karnataka elections we were able to work with Mapunity to bring about interesting views using the data
     from Election Watch at www.karnatakaelections.in. We would like to explore possibilities of working with more such
     applications and also bloggers to take this data forward. 
  Do visit the blog to get a glimpse of the election watch reports for Karnataka.
  Please feel free to add to this discussion list on items that may be of relevance to get the best of this topic. We would be
  glad not to confine this talk just to the activities of ADR and Election Watches but also other possible interventions to 
  make democracy better.

Please find A] Report in Kannada http://indiandemocracy.googlegroups.com/web/KEW+report+Kannda+final.pdf B] Report in English http://indiandemocracy.googlegroups.com/web/KEWReportfinal2008.pdf C] Presentation here http://groups.google.com/group/indiandemocracy/web/Electoral%20Reforms.ppt

• The Vedic Inventive Principles

Karthikeyan Iyer, karthikeyan.iyer@crafitti.com, kartzpot.blogspot.com

  A preview of the Vedic Inventive Principles, an abstracted view of what are popularly known as the 
  Vedic Mathematics Sutras. What are these principles? Do they have any meaning beyond Mathematics? 
  How do they compare with other inventive principles and triggers used across the world e.g. 
  De Bono's Six Thinking Hats, Russian TRIZ triggers, SCAMPER etc.? Lets learn and apply them LIVE!!!

• What is Indian English?

Shivku, blog.shivku.com

 The planet is getting smaller with internet and all those fast flying aeroplanes. And then, It is getting harder 
 to identify our language with fellow speakers from the UK, US, Australia etc. Some of what we speak is influenced 
 by the fact that the British were here (Neighbourhood with a "u") and some due to our obsession with Hollywood 
 and technology (Elevator vs lift, Program vs Programme). But more importantly, much is special and unique to the English
 that we speak here (Prepone, gyan, "We are like that only", "Why because..."). The idea is to define, identify, document 
 and popularize "Indian English".

• Alternate Life Commune

Shree Kumar, www.shreekumar.in

 Are you an OpenSIM or Second Life user ? Wondering what the hype about "Second Life" is all about ? Want to 
 experience OR discuss it ? Let's meet and discuss these, exchange ideas, demos, etc. PS: I don't have any 
 gyan to give about these; I'm still discovering.

• Essentials of Astrology, Palmistry and Other Occult

Rajeev Kumar, raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

 Astrology, Plamistry and other occult sciences are greatly misunderstood and taken for superstitions.
 This session seeks to discuss   the scientific issues behind this sciences and break myths. 

• eGovernance: Status, Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

Rajeev Kumar, raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

 While India is one of the top nations in the world which has one of the most matured Information Technology industry, 
 we have been very slow in adopting IT in governance. There are a lot of opportunities for innovators in IT. 

• Comparison between Traditional and Modern Match-making

Rajeev Kumar, raja.rajeevkumar@gmail.com

 We are all living in a mordern and dynamic world. But when it comes to some issues such as matrimony, 
 we are all still old fashioned! Why is that? Lets discuss this ?

  Rajeev - Thanks for the wonderful topic. I was thinking on similar lines and was thinking of an additional dimension.
  Whatever be the school of match making u follow, can technology leap from the current state of matches to anything better.
  Sridhar Pabbisetty, psridharp@gmail.com

• Finding a House in Bangalore: Open Discussion

Deepa Mohan & Meera K, Citizen Matters

 Want to rent a house or buy a house? Which area? What's the budget? What to look for? What issues do you face? 
 An open discussion to share your angst.

• Open Discussion : Your Experience of Bangalore's new airport

Viral, sachde.com viralsachde (at) gmail (dot) com

  Let's praise the efforts of BIAL team and make wish-list for them and preferably send it too.

• Laugh Out Loud

Anoop, anoop_c_v@yahoo.com

  Forming a group for intensive witty writing on various topics, more on the humourous front.

• TELL dot BLR: Be an SMS journalist: vent, rant, rave, call

Meera K, Subbu Vincent, Citizen Matters

What's the shortest story in today' world? An SMS, obviously! Can lots of citizen generated one-liners from around Bangalore's gazillion localities and crossroads tell a city's story on a given day? Better still, can we put this SMS citizen journalism to constructive use? Citizen Matters, Bangalore's community e-magazine wants to hear from all you SMSers on this.

Arts & Careers

• How can U make the best use of undergrad life

Ashwin Krishna, Co-Founder

  Too much of boring lecturers, internals, canteen n parking lot life, sleepy afternoons, chit chat about chicks... Time to awaken the senses and DO something significant in student life... 
  Calling all the the undergrad lads... A open discussion to brainstorm innovative things which can be done during undergrad life... Some of the things we can start with Open source Hacking, Music, Event Management, Bootstrapping a company... 
  Who knows? World's next Googles or Ciscos will be from Indian University's dorm rooms...
  Join in folks... Its for U... WE have the potential... 

• Personal Photography: Soul Searching

Mahesh Shantaram, Independent Photographer

 Photography courses are dousing nascent talent with an overdose of technical crap and rigid rules. 
 This is a crisis, as I see it. Plenty of us are scouring the pages of flickr in search of inspiration. 
 It's time to look elsewhere. This session is for anyone who has even a fleeting interest in photography. 
 It's going be purely inspirational, driven by a careful selection of audio-visual tools that will fire
 all the right neurons.

• Commercial Photography: Soul Selling

Mahesh Shantaram, Independent Photographer

 I keep getting asked whether photography as a full-time career pays well. What are the creative ways to 
 answer this? How much soul-selling happens as we go from hobbyist to professional? This session brings 
 together those who are or those who want to be professional photographers. Let's share experience, bust 
 some myths, and say it like it is. I'm bringing my archives along to show and tell.

• How to Stitch that Fantastic Panorama

Shree Kumar, [gmail] shree DOT shree, www.shreekumar.in

 Free tools are available (Hugin most prominently) to easily stitch panoramas from digital camera images. The process to 
 shoot them is simple too. However, these not as well known as they should be. This hands on session will show how easy it is 
 to shoot panoramas. The true beauty of panoramas is revealed after they are printed. So I'll also throw some light on how to 
 go about printing panoramas. Given time & interest, I may try to tackle some difficult aspects - e.g. shooting HDR images and
 HDR panoramas.

• Ten Photographs I Love

Ishan, lukwhostalking [at] gmail [dot] com , lukwhostalking.deviantart.com

  This is for all photography enthusiasts. Lets each bring 10 photographs we love and share them with the group.
  Maybe we can start an interesting discussion on photography and generally network.

• Post processing photos using open source tools

Amoghavarsha, amoghavarsha AT gmail DOT com

 A session on how opensource tools can enhance your images!

• Working on your dream project with a day job

Ujjwal Grover, ujj{@}tempostand{dot}com, ujjwalgrover.blogspot.com

  Calling all startuper's and wanna be startuper's for a discussion on "how to work on 
  your dream project together with your day job". How much time to spend, when to spend. 
  Does it seem like fun or does it seem like extra work. Should weekends be sacrificed. 
  Should you just quit if you've got an idea? Is it ethical to neglect your day job or 
  should you try to be an intraprenuer instead of an entrepreneur?

• iReboot - Experience your dream job

Mukta Darera, mukta.darera@ireboot.in

  iReboot is a company which helps people test drive dream jobs and enables them to
  covert their passion into reality.

• Selling Emotionally for Startups

Aditya Mishra, aditya at adityamishra dot in

  Selling is as much about selling to the heart as it is to the mind. We'll look at the ignored bit.