ApacheCon US video archive - All about Apache in 19 talks

Watch 19 talks from ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans from the
convenience of your home or office. Topics include:
* Scaling Apache 2.x in all dimensions
* Securing Communications with your Apache HTTP Server
* Scripting your Java Application with BSF 3.0
* and much more!

Visit: http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/archive_apachecon08us.htm

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: renuka prasad <renukaprasadb@...>
Date: 2008/11/2
Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Two day python workshop at RVCE on 14th and
15th of November 2008
To: bms-lug@googlegroups.com, FSUG-Bangalore
<fsug-bangalore@...>, rvcelinuxusersgroup
<rvcelinuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com>


Hi all

In association with FSUG-BAngalore , A Two day workshop is arranged
for RVCE students and faculties- but looking at BMS students
initiatives - i too felt like keeping this workshop open for others
too--if any one is getting beenifitted -what else is required?

Venue : RVCE campus
Date :  14th and 15th of November
Timings : Morning 9.00 to evening 5.00 ( both the days )
Contents:
                Basics of Python  ( hands on session )
                Implementation of OOP concepts using python  ( hands on session )
                An hour session about Web application development with
python + postgresql + Zope ( only demo)

Resource Persons : Members  FSUG-Bangalore

Registration Fee   : 200 Rs ( no lunch -- providing 4 DVD ( debian ) +
1 CD of material related to the workshop )

Registration fee is toward the payment for Resource persons +
certificates + other expenses

Interested people can reply here also or can call me and confirm 9901945674

Maximum No of Participants : 100 ( already 54 have registered -FCFS)

with regards


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Very interesting proposals! FN


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gora Mohanty <gora@...>
Date: 2008/10/30
Subject: [PRC] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships
To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project List <prc@...>
Cc: General Freed list <freed@...>, ILUGD main list
<ilugd@...>


Hello everyone,
  It gives us great pleasure to announce the list of fellows
for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme. The number of
fellowships this year represents a dramatic increase from past
years. We are thankful to NIXI, and in particular, to their
CEO, Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal for their generosity in making so
many fellowships possible.

Below is the list of 21 awardees. The list is also available
online at
<http://www.sarai.net/fellowships/floss/2008-sarai-floss-fellowships-list>
. We will be in touch with each of the fellows, and
also with anyone who sent in a proposal by the coming weekend.
Please feel free to write to me with any queries, and/or
concerns.

The final list is:
   1. Debayan Banerjee/Sawood Alam: Joint award for OCR in Urdu,
Bengali, etc., based on Google Tesseract
   2. Abhishek Choudhary et al: Hindawi is a system to allow
programming in Indian languages. This project proposes to build online
courseware to introduce the various components of Hindawi, to improve
the project documentation, create a syllabus around Hindawi,
distribute live CDs, and hold lectures.
   3. Hassath: Making of a short film using FOSS tools, documenting the
process, and listing pros and cons of the applications.
   4. Sachin Joshi: Integrating automated speech recognition (ASR) for
Hindi into the Linux platform.
   5. Aadil Kak: Kashmiri font completion, and localisation of KDE 4.2.
   6. Friji Karthikeyan: Internet Radio framework, with interface to,
and hosting on Giss.tv
   7. Satya Komaragiri: Speech-to-text support in OLPC, with Hindi ASR.
   8. Manu Konchady: FOSS online tutor to teach students new languages,
using text-to-speech, and a web-based framework.
   9. Ajay Kumar: Sahana client on Openmoko mobiles. Sahana is the
disaster relief management system used for the Bihar floods, tsunami,
etc.
  10. Sangeeta Kumari: Maithili localisation of KDE4.2, Fedora, and the
Chatzilla IM client.
  11. Pranav Madhyastha / Sriram Chaudhary: Joint award to develop a
system of machine translation (MT) from English to Hindi. This will
consist of a web framework to assist improvement of the background
engine, and work on an open-source MT engine, Anusaaraka.
  12. Helen Mary: Open-source database, and tools to study mental retardation.
  13. Kartik Mistry: Gujarati localisation of KDE 4.2, usability
workshop, and some internationalisation work for KDE
  14. Rajeev Sebastian: Indic text rendering in Scribus, a page layout
(DTP) application, using the Harfbuzz library.
  15. Shishir Sharma et al: Intelligent Transliteration from Romanised
English to Hindi
  16. Syed Shikeb: Urdu localisation of KDE 4.2.
  17. Ravishankar Shrivastava: Chhatisgarhi localisation of KDE 4.2.
  18. Sreeraj R: Adding feature to System Verilog support for ICARUS.
System Verilog is a hardware description, and verification language
(HDVL) used, e.g., to program FPGAs.
  19. Srujanika: Addition to Oriya dictionary, including scientific and
technical terms.
  20. Shamail Tayyab: Web-based secure P2P. Promotes sharing in a
community-based way
  21. C S Yoganada: Extend Sagar (TeX) to Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi,
Gujarati and Oriya

Regards,
Gora
Knowlege is power... share it equitably!

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Various themes that interest me… Free Software, Goa, books, developmental issues…

Voice communications, smartly used, can bring the benefits of info to many

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Techie-guru and ex-editor friend Vickram Crishna announced in cyberspace that Giovanni Maruzzelli would be visiting India. After a few emails were exchanged, he added Goa to his route.

This Italian techie believes that the right solutions can turn telephones into a powerful tool. He speaks at the BITS Pilani Goa campus (Zuarinagar) on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 6 pm. Giovanni explains how techies could make a difference. An interview with Frederick Noronha (FN).

FN: What is the focus of your trip to India?

Giovanni Maruzzelli: I'm focusing mainly on two things: to enjoy incredible India, and to enjoy its incredibly good food.

As an aside, I want to get acquainted with the technical communities that relate (as users, developers, entrepreneurs, administrators, teachers, etc) to free and open source software. I'm making presentations at various venues around India about the free software that I'm now contributing to.

This software is used to connect the Asterisk PBX [http://www.asterisk.org] or private branch exchange to the GSM and Skype networks for making and receiving voice calls and SMSs.

[A private branch exchange (PBX) is a telephone exchange that serves a particular business or office, as opposed to one that a common carrier or telephone company operates for many businesses or for the general public. PBXs are also referred to as PABX (private automatic branch exchange) or EPABX (electronic private automatic branch exchange).]

It uses second-hand, recycled or cheap cellphones as interfaces to the GSM network.

FN: What do you hope to achieve here?

Giovanni Maruzzelli: I would like to get an idea about how open source is perceived in India, and to understand how it is used toward social and economic development.

Also, to get to know what can be done in the future using open source to narrow the digital divide at social (between rich and poor) and geographical (between city and village) level.

I'm interested to both the commercial and the educational-social applications of open source in fast growing countries.

FN: How has the trip shaped up so far?

Giovanni Maruzzelli: I'm still at the beginning of my trip. I've just visited Chennai, Mumbay and Auroville (Pondicherry) for very few days each. But in each place I've been very refreshed by, and glad to see, the people that come to the presentations of Asterisk-celliax-skypiax.

I see that there is a precise awareness, also among people who have no technical knowledge, about how strategic the new voice communication technologies — and mobile communication — could be for India.

How much easier, on many occasions, it is for people to interact using a phone than using a computer. And how is important to move toward an approach that combines low cost, low power, recycling, and sustainability.

So, I can say the response so far has been very much satisfying and stimulating for me.

FN: What do you see as the potential for Asterisk and the related software tools in India, and why?

Giovanni Maruzzelli: India is a very big country, with a thriving fast growing economy, and a large and diverse population with various languages, instruction level, and grade of access to communication technologies.

It also has wide differences between countryside and the big cities. In such a context, organizations, communities, companies and public administration have to evaluate and use each tools that allows them to interconnect with and between people.

Voice communication, when it is managed by advanced technologies like Asterisk and VoIP, allows for a large public to tap the same benefits of information access and interactivity that the internet allows to the technical advanced part of the population.

Voice menus, the phone interrogation of databases, speech synthesis and recognition, automatc attendants — these are technologies ready right now to be implemented.

Also, there is a fast growing market for any technology that can save money in telecommunication.

VoIP, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, and the other open source technologies allow for bigger savings, and for extreme flexibility. Both at the level of big telco and at the small office or tiny community level.

I've had experiences as founder of the first mass consumer ISP and portal in Italy, as partner in an incubator and venture capital private fund and as an Internet and Telecommunication Investment Expert for the World Bank-IFC in Serbia (ex Yugoslavia). So I know very well that if you start from technologies that have a high degree of usefulness and a great potential for penetration, you can build a viable and successful business.

So, all the pieces are there, and I see a very bright future in India for all the opensource technologies related to VoIP.

FN: How do you see the skills of techies in India?

Giovanni Maruzzelli: The Indian elite technologists are the best in the world; but this is not news.

With such a big population, India will however have to grow a much bigger number of medium and advanced techies, that can bring about innovations in all parts of the country.

FN: Finally, tell a little about Celliax.org and its focus.

The website www.celliax.org is the gathering point for the development of celliax, skypiax and directoriax technologies, that allows for a cheap interconnection between fixed lines, Skype, GSM, and VoIP.

Being an open source project, any person in the world is encouraged to contribute — at least by way of a comment, or a suggestion. We also receive help, code, and fixes from people living in many different countries.

Celliax uses second-hand, recycled and cheap cellphones as interfaces between VoIP and the GSM networks.

ENDS

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Free Software technologies for media streaming

A workshop on Free Software
technologies for media streaming is to be held in end-September. For
those who may have ambitions of setting up public
media services, audio or video, or even those who are curious
about it, this is not an opportunity to be missed!
ent system
and servers... )

Objective : Being able to set up one's own audio and video
server, creating on-line free media.

Have you ever thought of setting up your own IPTV site? Or
starting your own Internet radio station? Or have you felt
the urge to host and deliver your favorite educational
content that you want everyone to see, in real time streaming
media?

Plus do you want to learn how to set these up using
off-the-shelf Free Software? If yes, this workshop is for
you!

Overview

Video and audio content are very important dimensions of the
web space especially as bandwidth increases. At present, most
users may be happy to put up their content on YouTube and
similar IPTV sites. However for those intending to set up
internet-based radio stations or TV channels, an independent
server capacity and access to Free Software tools can be
significant. This is because one of the barriers to producers
of such media streams has been hugely expensive and
restrictive proprietary software.

Streaming media also opens up a channel for free,
unrestricted people-to-people communication in local
languages for local audiences on issues at the grassroots.


The Gnowledge Lab at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
of TIFR and Comet Media Foundation are co-hosting this
workshop.


Who are the resource people?

The resource people are Yves de Goyan and Lluis Gómez i
Bigordà of GISS (Global Independent Streaming Support) whose
credo is "Free streaming services for free media. Free as in
cost, free as in software." Visit http://giss.tv for more
details. GISS is a volunteer, non-commercial network created
with free software.

Who are the participants?

Media makers with a bent for technologies and techies with
media aspirations.

When & where

Dates: 28-29-30 September, 2008
Venue: Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, V. N. Purav
Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai-400 088.
Cost: Rs. 900 for three days to cover logistics and expenses.
(In case this any of you cannot afford this, please e-mail
us.)
Equipment: Bring your own laptops, or at least a pen drive to
take away copies.
Last date for nominations: 22 September, 2008.

Registration: Please e-mail us your profile, indicating your
background and what you would like to achieve from this
workshop at cometmediafdn@....

Also

If anyone is interested in hosting such a workshop or an
informal meeting with Yves and Lluis, please let know at
cometmediafdn@... and we will pass on the request.



If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
Poulami Sarkar at 91-022-2382 6674.

==============================
Detailed Timetable and Curriculum

Day 1 : 5/6 hours

Objective: Setting up a first easy streaming using G.I.S.S.
infrastructure and tools

Theoretical presentation :

- History of free technologies for streaming
- Presentation of most popular free codecs : vp3, ogg/theora,
  ogg/vorbis, dirac, ...

Introduction to G.I.S.S. : [http://www.giss.tv]

- Channel creation
- Customization of a channel, creation of the web interface
- Audio streaming : MusE, Pure Data
- Video streaming : Theora Streaming Studio, Pure Data

Day 2 : 5/6 hours

Objective : Explaining the streaming tools focusing on the
strength of each solution, mounting a radio or video virtual
studio.

Advanced Streaming Techniques:

- Configuration of audio and video devices in Linux
- Panorama of audio and video streaming programs in Linux :
  (Theora Streaming Studio/ffmpeg2theora, Pure Data,
  GStreamer, IDJC )
- Comparative discussion about tools, choice of the best tool
  for each configuration
- Realisation of a video/audio virtual desk in Pure Data
- Overlaying of logos and subtitles

Day 3 : 5/6 hours

Objective : Being able to set up one's own audio and video
server, creating on-line free media.

Publication of media contents :

- Installation of a media database
- Personalization of the database
- Creating channels and themes

Installation of your own streaming server :

- Introduction to the configuration of icecast
- Setting up one's icecast server for audio and video
- How to link it to the G.I.S.S. infrastructure

===========================
Comet Media Foundation
Topiwala Municipal School, Lamington Road
Mumbai 400007, India
Tel: 91-22-2382 6674 or 2386 9052
e-mail: cometmediafdn@...
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You can try out the software on any computer. There are
instructions for Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux packages, for Live
CDs and for running Sugar in emulation on other operating
systems. You can find links to them at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Fsf Education] Programming contest for students
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:59:25 +0530
From: Vimal Joseph <vimalekm@...>
To: FSF India Programmers List <fsf-prog@...>,
fsf-edu@...

Dear All,

As a part of this years Software Freedom Day
celebrations<http://space-kerala.org/node/101>
SPACE <http://space-kerala.org/> have announced a programming contest for
the students irrespective of the course they are pursuing.

The contest is based on the tutorial maSH - the true story of a
shell<http://space-kerala.org/node/102>.
Please see the contest page for more
information<http://space-kerala.org/node/103>
.

A cash award of Rs. 5000/- will be awarded to the best coder based on the
quality of their code and creativity.

Last date for submitting the patches : 25, Oct 2008

thanks and regards,

~vimal
http://space-kerala.org


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Hi Narendra

my views below btw this is a huge list of questions ;)


2008/9/12 narendra sisodiya <narendra.sisodiya@...>:
> I need to record audio for my educational application . which I have to sent
> to the server for storage. Playing can be done by vlc or any other plugin ,
> so that is not a issue for a while.
>
> Audio capture in browser !! need suggestion ??
> * Flash based ?? will that be free of cost to use that ?? will it output ogg
> ??
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I dont know of any flash server side software but it might be there
that can convert flv to ogg but it should be possible
flash recording from the client side onto the server is done using
flash media server but there is a open source alternative to it call
red5 (check up on it ) it is pretty good


> * Java/Applet based ?? any security issue?? well only small percentage of
> user will record the audio so this can be option ?? Again any know
> implementation ?? will i be able to control with javascript ??
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
-----------------
well it is difficult to answer abt security issues as most issues can
creep up in the coding and might not be present in the platform java
is pretty secure but if you leave a vulnerability then u cant blame
java now can  you ;)  am not sure but communicating between a java
applet and javascript is possible


> * using a third party plugin/embedded object for recording ??
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

yes this option is there as there are many which provide this
functinality but it will be mostly a paid service not free


> * Writing my own Firefox and IE and chrome plugin ??

--------------------------------------------------------------------

well no one can stop you from writing a plugin for firefox and IE  :)
and about chrome well they dont yet have support for plugins but it is
planned in the future

> * Developing desktop application for recording and trigger from browser and
> having proper synchronisation using server. both will run  independent way
> but server will transmit sync information between these two entities. !!
> * Developing my application with XMPP/Jabber protocol !!
>
----------------------------------------------------------------

wow this is some pretty deep stuff dude
acc to me with my limited understanding of your project based on this
questions my suggestions would be to stick to flash and it should give
you a stable platform for both desktop and browser

desktop via AIR

xmpp is a gr8 protocol

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Remember I just need to record voice of user and save to my server which
> user can download or play it in browser . I am trying my best effort to
> avoid flash. also i want my streaming to be on ogg format ??
>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
------------
remember though in flash the file recorded on the server is a flv file
you will have to extract the audio out of it and encode
and i believe for java applet also it will be the same but java has
support for wav format and this will have to be converted into mp3 on
the server or ogg format

the only reason am suggesting flash is because it is present on more
computers now then java

also checked out your site you have nice dreams of yours mentioned
there good luck dancing on that stage someday :)



Bye
Regards
Fritz

Philippine International Information Technology Expo 2008
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September 30 to October 2, 2008
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Free software helps Indian techies in many projects

Wed, May 21 04:17 PM

Bangalore, May 21 (IANS) Free software and open source tools are
helping a range of Indian entrepreneurs to build software solutions
that enhance the potential of computing for millions.

With names like Hindawi, Zmanda and Dhvani or KDE Hindi, these
products are helping an entire new generation of software developres.

Hindawi (hindawi.in) is a suite of open source programming languages.
It allows people to write computer programmes in languages other than
English.

The Zmanda Recovery Manager (zmanda.com) is a perl-based utility used
to automate backup and recovery of MySQL databases. Prominent on its
management team are Indian names like Chander Kant, Paddy Sreenivasa,
Ram 'TK' Krishnamurthy, and K.K. George.

Dhvani (dhvani.sourceforge.net) is a text-to-speech Indian-language
initiative. It allows a Simputer to read what the user types. It was
built to ensure that literacy and English skills were not essential to
use the Simputer.

Using images in conjunction with voice output in local languages makes
a computing device accessible to a larger section of the Indian
population. Other winners are Fedora Spins, and KDE Hindi of
indlinux.org.

MayaVi (mayavi.sourceforge.net) is an open source tool that allows
easy and interactive three-dimensional visualisation of data.

In 2000, Prabhu Ramachandran, then a IIT Madras aerospace engineering
student, started work on the MayaVi project with his colleagues to
visualise computational fluid dynamics data.

'Popular tools available for the purpose at that time were proprietary
and prohibitively expensive,' noted the Linux For You magazine,
published from Delhi, which has announced its FOSS (Free and Open
Source Software) India Awards for those involved in a 'saga of
innovation'.

Peter Thomas of Satyam here worked on JTrac (jtrac.info), a FOSS
'issue-tracking web application'. That is a computer software package
which manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an
organisation. It is used to create, update and resolve reported
customer issues.

Abhas Abhinav's DeepRoot Linux team here has developed deepOfix
(deeproot.in/deepofix), which 'gives many proprietary mail servers a
run for their money', commented Linux For You.

Another of the Indian winners was TuxType - into which five students
of the Government Engineering College at Thrissur built Unicode
Malayalam support.

This made TuxType (tuxtype.sourceforge.net) the first FOSS typing
tutor to bundle Unicode support for Indian languages, at a time when
Indian language solutions in computing is eagerly awaited, so that the
potential across the country can be better tapped.

WANem (wanem.sourceforge.net) is a wide area network (WAN) emulator,
coming from the Tata Consultancy Services. It was built to provide
team-members WAN access. Other WAN emulators were hardware-based,
expensive and available to only a select few in test labs.


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Ashwin David has no problems managing his engineering lessons. A student with Dr Timmiah Institute of Engineering - based in Kolar Gold Fields - the prospect of studying in a rural college far from the IT hub doesn't actually make Ashwin feel he is missing something.

That is because Visveswariah Technical University (VTU) to which Ashwin's institution is an affiliate, has decided to enhance knowledge and understanding of students like him through e-learning.

As one of the universities in the country making full use of Edusat (Educational Satellite which India put into orbit four years ago), VTU has doubled the advantage by establishing a partnership with IBM, ensuring students get to learn the latest technology trends from industry experts.

A New Way of Tracking Talent Online
By Priyanka Akhouri
Mumbai, May 13, 2008

When you go to the market, you desire to pick the best valued quality product. But if the product is human talent and the market is online, it needs a better solution like the new LimeExchange website. This new portal brings together the talent pool, talent seekers, and service providers on a common platform using the online bidding process to meet various IT projects.

From the market perspective there is enough talent available globally, but there are not enough avenues to harness that talent and provide those creative and professional skills worldwide. However, there are companies that exist in the current space like E-guru, Elance, etc. that outsource freelance programmers, graphic designers, etc.

LimeExchange is the first talent online marketplace introduced by Lime Spot - a Web-based company that focuses on creating and delivering user-driven Web applications and services. LimeExchange is designed to help entrepreneurs, and individuals to outsource, connect, and collaborate globally. Through LimeExchange, entrepreneurs can gain competitive advantages of outsourcing, such as a flexible workforce, lower-cost labor, and access to specialized skills.

Sorabh Jerath, VP of LimeExchange (sales and marketing) said, "We realized that the business i.e. online outsourcing of talent is huge and in demand, and the number of users for the online global talent is rising immensely. This is where one party wants a service and the other is providing the service."

The services vary since there are various talents and unending demand list. The services differ from graphic designing, web programming, content and creative writing, designing, etc. Also it includes other services like legal services, data services, specialized services, freelance photo journalism, etc.

So what made Lime Spot introduce this kind of service?

The biggest challenge in outsourcing right now is zeroing in on a particular vendor, country, etc. Currently in the marketplace there are only a couple of players who have reached this level. Lime Exchange is an online service platform for the various vendors of talents and seekers for these talents- such as freelance journalism, photo journalism, content developers, transcribers, etc. "Lime Exchange is an online medium for people to outsource, where you can sit and select on the various option based on the credibility of the service providers. With Lime Exchange initiative we are providing businesses to flourish in economy where people can sit at home as well as earn a living," added Jerath.

According to Abhishek Mitra Gupta, VP (Technology) of Lime Spot, the need for introducing LimeExchange was that we being a part of Lime Group realized the need to bring out those hidden talents into the market. "This is why we are building products around those areas, and this as a penetration strategy based on the market research was found to be a suitable avenue to us. The concept started with India where the service providers can join the community on our website," said Gupta.

LimeExchange is the beginning of a vendor- user relationship. It helps in looking at the references, recommendations, suggestions and ratings posted by the users about that particular vendor and its services.

"As a buyer if you post a project and mention the estimated budget, then there will be a online bidding by various vendors. Based on the vendor's bidding, the buyer will examine the vendor's service quality, skills, past projects, consultancy cost, posted recommendations, reference and rating by other users. This subsequently helps the buyer to pick the prospective vendor for its project," added Jerath.

Further, Jerath said, "After the user has decided upon the vendor, LimeExchange will charge on the bidding fees for the project. On the completion and delivery of the project, we charge an 8% fee of the project but from the service provider. It's a way of bringing the offline way of doing business online."

Lime Group is a strong supporter of Open Source technology. "LimeExchange is built on Ruby on Rails technology. As soon as we decide onto launch our products we look at Open Source as our alternative straight away. We also use Linux, Apache, MySQL and other Open Source technologies," added Gupta.

The company will soon be launching an 'Answer feature' in LimeExchange where people can seek answers to their questions on different categories such as Java, Linux, etc. Meanwhile, the company plans to take this business to the next level and make it global in future.

"We have just completed the first phase. We had a target of over 1000 quality service providers and have successfully covered about 1500 service providers, primarily a lot of them from India. LimeExchange has bagged about 500 talented professional content writers and translators from India," stated Jerath.

India remains the core focus area of talent pool. Hence the company looks at India as a root place of service providers in the area of software application development, animation and graphic designing, and many more areas. However, Jerath reveals that the company already has plans to expand this business to countries like Russia, Canada, etc.

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Microsoft's Ballmer Escapes Egg Attack

A man upset with the Hungarian government's decision to sign a
software and training deal with Microsoft threw three eggs at CEO
Steve Ballmer -- and missed.

By Paul McDougall,  InformationWeek
May 19, 2008
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207801080

A man upset with the Hungarian government's decision to sign a
software and training deal with Microsoft tried to pelt the company's
chief executive with eggs during a presentation Monday at a Budapest
university.

The man, wearing a shirt with the words "Microsoft Equals Corruption"
scrawled on the back, tossed three eggs at Steve Ballmer, who nimbly
ducked behind a lectern. The protester isn't likely to win a major
league pitching contract: He missed Ballmer on all three attempts,
despite standing less than 50 feet from the Microsoft chief.

The protester, a bespectacled man who appeared to be in his mid- to
late 20s, was immediately ushered from the lecture hall at Budapesti
Corvinus Egyetem.

A video of the incident circulating on the Internet shows that Ballmer
was initially stunned, but quickly laughed off the attempted egging.
"That broke my train of thought," he joked.

Ballmer's address at the university on Monday began routinely enough.
"I have to ask one key question before we start," he said to the
students. "How many of you still have examinations?"

Within seconds, however, the protester interrupted. Speaking in
Hungarian, he accused Microsoft of stealing millions from the
country's taxpayers. He then hurled the eggs.

The incident was reminiscent of a 1998 ambush on Bill Gates, in which
a Belgian prankster hit the Microsoft chairman with a cream pie.

Ballmer was in Hungary on Monday to promote a program called Titan,
under which Microsoft will train IT professionals in the country. The
program also includes Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and
several other vendors.

More than 10,000 Hungarian programmers and other IT professionals are
expected to participate in Titan, which is slated to run through 2012.
Hungary, along with a number of other Eastern European countries, is
seeing significant growth in IT jobs outsourced from the Web.

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