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A quick update on Startup Saturday. Startup Saturday Delhi is going to be hosted by the American Center on the 13th of December 2008.

Startups are encouraged to fill out the demo form. Startups, investors, media, and other individuals interested in attending Startup Saturday are requested to fill out the registration form.

Security will be tight so make sure you bring a photo id or you won’t be let into the building.

If you’re going to be tweeting or blogging about Startup Saturday, please use the following tags:
ssd, startupsaturdaydelhi, ss, startupsaturday, ssd200812

Cheers

During the weekend, Arun gave a presentation at BarCamp Delhi on Blog Action Day. This year’s Blog Action Day (today - October 15th, 2008) is about poverty. How can each of us do something to help ease the pain and suffering that so many people around the world endure as part of their daily lives.

Click here to see a list of 88 ideas that each of us can easily implement in our daily lives. It doesn’t take much but it goes a long way to ease a lot of suffering.

88 Ways to Take Action Against Poverty Right Now

1. Eat meatless meals 2x a week. Donate that grocery money to a local food bank. - TarotByArwen
2. Be homeless for a day/night. - Lex
3. Stop putting off adopting a child through an organization like Compassion International (or adopt another one). - Lex
4. Make a loan on Kiva, or buy a couple gift certificates and give them away to friends. - Lex
5. Get a group together to go door-to-door collecting canned foods for your local soup kitchen/shelter. - Lex

This is Arun’s presentation and you can find him on twitter.

BarCamp Delhi is set for October 11th and 12th. IIT Delhi is playing host to this two day event. The location will be the Bharti building on the IIT campus. There are two rooms on the first floor, two rooms on the second floor and one room on the third floor available for campers. There will also be plenty of space available inside and outside for ad-hoc meets and networking.

Remember, everyone attending BarCamp must should participate in some capacity, whether it is presenting, taking pictures or videos, live blogging, or just volunteering for various tasks in organizing a BarCamp. Please take a look at the BCD5 Sessions page and add yourself to the list of presenters.

If you’re one of those people who get inspired at a moment’s notice and aren’t sure what you might be presenting on right now, you can still add your name to the list of Campers for BarCamp Delhi.

Looking forward to meeting you at BarCamp Delhi, the 5th edition on October 11th and 12th.

Update 2008-09-21: Some of the volunteers for BarCamp Delhi had our first face to face meeting today at the Teknatus office. We discussed quite a few items, settled on some open issues, and handed out various tasks. In the immortal words of Col. John “Hannibal” Smith, “I love it when a plan comes together.”

BarCamp Delhi is scheduled for October 11th and 12th 2008 at IIT Delhi. We’re currently working on reaching out to bloggers to help spread the word. We’re looking to attract thinkers in various fields, in India and outside, to attend the even and share their thoughts with the rest of us.

If you know of any bloggers that we should contact directly, please enter the information in the form below.

Cheers

Preparations for BarCamp Delhi are under way. The date for the fifth installment of BarCamp Delhi has been set for the 4th and 5th of October 2008. Please join the BarCamp Delhi Google Group.

I’ve moved LinOSX TechnoMash to a new domain, http://blog.linosx.com. The older linosx.nyvisitek.com should forward over to the new domain. If there are any problems, please drop me a comment.

Happy New Year to everyone. May 2007 be filled with peace, good health, happiness, joy, and prosperity.

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I’ve never been impressed with the RSS readers built into Safari or Firefox but I like Flock’s RSS reader. I would use it consistently if:

• It was easier to mark a specific RSS feed or a group as read
• Keyboard shortcuts that allowed me to easily navigate through RSS feeds
• There was a way to synchronize read and unread articles, feed additons and removals, and groupings - all across different computers ( think of it as a lightweight BlogBridge ) - maybe even over a a free email account like GMail

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