Archive for the ‘Fests’ Category

The Knowledge Foundation, a motely group of technology enthusiasts and avid bloggers, the same bunch of folks who brought you Blogcamp, Barcamp, Proto.in and other related events have teamed up to bring you India’s first podcasting event called Podworks.in. This event, to be held next month on the 9th and the 10th at Tidel Park, […]


Mobile Monday Chennai happened today at IIT Madras. The meet was scheduled for 3 hours starting at 10 am. However, since the venue was practically not accessible for it was hidden in between a forest without any sign-board to help the participants, the event got delayed by half an hour waiting for folks to come. […]


Mobile Monday Chennai edition is scheduled to happen on the 6th of May (tomorrow), which incidentally is a Sunday at IIT Madras. This sure does make the event a bit humorous since Mobile Monday on a Sunday turns out to be the expansion of MMS (The phenomenon which made mobile camera phones popular in India). […]


Sagaro, one Bothack’s contributors has a funny photo essay on the recently concluded BarCap Bangalore 2007 edition. Click here for more.


The IEEE students chapter of Delhi College of Engineering is organising its robotics competition Radix on the 19th of February 2007 as part of its annual techfest Troika. There are 3 challenges – a land event, a water event and a bots race. Problems have been released on the their website: http://www.dcetech.com/events/troika/radix.php Other than Radix […]


Adobe India is conducting a contest for students (Adobe Developer Olympiad) on the development of Rich Internet Application using Flex /ColdFusion technologies. The objective of this contest is to get the student community excited about Adobe’s RIA products and bring out innovative ideas. This contest is open to any student of a recognized university in […]


All the robotics entusiats who missed the Session by Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat at IIT M during Shaastra, here is a second chance. He is touring Kerala next week. Unlike Shaastra where Dr. Prahlad displayed a few soccer playing robots with his students from the NUS, in Kerala he would give a few sessions on his […]


College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, presents “Kurukshetra 07” – a national level multi-disciplinary inter college technical festival to be held during January 4 – 7, 2007. With over 35 events, ranging from Robotics to Online Programming Contest, Business Plan Competition to the Open Kurukshetra Main Quiz, and prizes worth Rs.  9 lakhs – Kurukshetra […]


National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) started today. The event conducted across the world every November now into its eigth year is seeing more than 80,000 authors this time. The challenge is to write a novel of 50,000 words before November 30th. There are no best novel prizes. Everyone who completes their novel is a winner. […]


The business plan competition, which is about “initiating innovations” that can combine enterprise with social responsibility is being organized by IIT Madras. Genesis is a platform for you to develop your idea and learn about the various things involved in entrepreneurship. Genesis plans to encourage budding entrepreneurs by providing them the required guidance and financial […]