iam back blogging after sometime ..

I wanted to keep you posted about the latest in my life. As you know I just got done with my college life a couple of months ago. I have been involved in an entrepreneurial venture along with a group of young engineers. We are setting up India’s very first online marketplace for financial products like loans, credit cards and insurance. Just like yatra.com is for travel, LoanDukaan.com is for loans and insurance products - where you can get multiple instant offers on the lowest rates from banks across India. LoanDukaan.com also provides all the tools to compare and choose the best deals, so you can take a well-informed decision on your loan. LoanDukaan.com’s differentiator is its ability to provide users customized quotes instantly and allow them to lock in their preferred offer by applying directly to the bank of choice - saving the user valuable time and money.

The team consists of CEG Anna University and REC Trichy alumni who have left jobs at Microsoft - USA, Amazon.com USA/India, Deloitte before joining this venture. It is a great team and I am enjoying being part of this young, professional and yet informal start-up culture. My team is making rapid progress and we are gearing for a launch in early July. We have signed on India’s top banks to partner with us.

We are planning a beta launch sometime soon and would love to have you review and give us feedback. Do send me an email if you are interested and I’ll keep you posted.
and yes we are Hiring too ! looking for smart ,motivated professionals and people who love to do these things :) head out to our careers page ,we have listed the openings .If you are interested or know someone who would be interested the definitely pass on the link http://loandukaan.com/careers.html .

and yes you can also keep yourself updated when we launch at out main page .! just sign up ( we promise no unsolicited emails .! )

and yes wish us luck too :)

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The final dinner class 2004 NITT . :-)

the file is 479MB so see it only if u hav the bandwidth or just download the videofile  from my server :)

CSE 2008 farewell dinner

Thanks to swami,kks and wally for making this video available for all of us :) enjoy it !

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i turn one more year but thats not why iam writing this post early in the morning ! its because iam already having the best birthday of my life :-) . will write in more soon !

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I have created a new channel on irc.freenode.net for all nittians to hang out ,chit-chat or just chaat. :)

details :

Channel : #nittians

Server:irc.freenode.net

If you havent used IRC before ,just make sure you have any client,pidgin/Trillians/Xchat or just use the web based client .

http://www.mibbit.com/

Come on, we will have fun ! :)

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As a part of SUN roadshow events,my college SUN campus ambassador megha had suggested we reach out to college near trichy and help them get started with sun technologies .
Thanks to Harishyam ,we landed up first at JJCET ,its about an an hour and half from NITT campus and yes they did have an impressive admin building and vast areas of free grounds to play .
We first went in to meet HOD of CSE dept Prof. A Saravanan and he was a nice man,we talked about how sun reaches out in our college ,how JJCET can benefit from SUN workshops and what they can do to get more of their students in to opensource technologies .
After talking with him we left to meet the students in the Supernova Labs ( Name of a conference hall with computers ) .The attendence was good 60+ for a single session .
First megha kickstarted by playing some SUN videos ,about sun as a company ,opensolaris and then she started out with SUN campus ambassador programs .
People were interested and iam sure they would want one from their college too ,hope sun is listening :) .
The she spoke about about Netbeans ,Java and some introduction to opensolaris .
After her talks ,i took over i started with opensolaris,not many knew about linux ,so i started with the licenses on opensource,CCDL,free software and then jumped to opensolaris os.
Made a few slides with features that differentiate GNU/Linux with opensolaris like DTrace,ZFS,Zones,SMF and also talked about how Zones is diferent from virtual machines .
Some had doubts and we were more than happy to get them set .
And finaly we let them know our email address and also our mailing list so that people can reach us when they need too .
I think after the response we saw ,the need to reach out to more colleges deeper into country is very important for sun .The NIT’s the IIT’s are always going to have that edge interms of resources to compete with the world and it is the responsibilty of poeple commited to free and opensource philosophy to take this to another level and hel people who dont have the resources to compete with the world and arm them with enough ammunitions to get going .Sure it will take time but the future mist be bright ! .
I hope SUN is listening and i would love to help them setup a campus club at JJCET .Harishyam is a good candidate for the ambassador .
The slides are on their way out so incase you want to have the slides from us either mail us or just keep looking in this space here ! we will put it up .
And yes we clicked some pics too :)
http://theyagar.com/photos/?level=album&id=5 [tags]opensolaris,foss,jjcet,nitt[/tags]

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