Hello folks: I work with Thoughtworks India, and am presently working at our newly setup Pune office at Yerwada.
Some of us are interested in FOSS activities, and like to interact with tech folks. In Bangalore, software developers gather at our Bangalore office and discuss various interesting topics that pique our interest. We'd like to start the GeekNights sessions at our Pune office too, and we welcome all developers and enthusiasts to participate. Feel free to speak on topics of your choice (preferable related to programming in some way) at a Thoughtworks Geeknight. All you need is to get in touch with the organizers and put up your topic for the next session. ThoughtWorks invites you to the first edition of Geek Nights in Pune. Geek Night is an informal gathering of geeks (read passionate developers who want to work on cutting edge technology) where we pick a hot tech topic, discuss it and learn from each others experiences and perspectives. This has been a big hit in Bangalore where we have organized quite a few sessions in the past. The techie community has pretty much fallen in love with the concept of not only giving gyan but also recieving it in a very interactive mode. The topics for these Geek Nights may range from stuff like Ruby on Rails to proven open source tools like Hibernate or Spring. We also indulge in Code Jams where we get our laptops into a room and go about solving a problem and discuss our solutions till the food is over (we do tend to feel hungry and thirsty during these sessions and keep some snacks handy!) Details of the next Geeknight session Date: Saturday, 10th February 2007 Time: 2 pm to 6pm Venue: ThoughtWorks Pune Office Address: ThoughtWorks Technologies Ground Floor, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park (near Don Bosco School), Yerwada, Pune. Session 1: Google Web Toolkit Time: 2 pm to 3:30 pm Presenters: Sriram and Nikhil Sriram and Nikhil have been using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in their current project. They say GWT has completely changed the way they think about designing web applications. They discuss the key differentiators of GWT as compared to the other Ajax frameworks along with a few best practices they have evolved over their time working with it. References: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit Session 2: Practicing Extreme Programming Time: 4:30 pm to 6 pm Presenters: Mahadeo and Raghu Maha and Raghu have been following Extreme Programming (XP) on their projects in ThoughtWorks for a few years now. They plan to tell us about how the development level practices in XP bring huge benefits to the developers and to the team. Here the XP practices they plan to demonstrate with the help of a coding problem. • Test Driven Development (TDD) - • Pair Programming • Evolutionary design • Refactoring References: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgramming http://www.refactoring.com If you are interested in attending these sessions please sign up on this page on the Geeknights wiki. Also join the Google Group at [ http://groups.google.com/group/ThoughtWorks-Bangalore-Geek-Nights] and we shall keep you posted on the dates and topics for the next Geek Nights. In case you have any questions/clarifications feel free to contact Chirag (email: chirag [dot] doshi [at] gmail [dot] com) or Nikhil (nfernand[at]thoughtworks[dot]com) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
