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Kerala university youth festival from tomorrow

Kerala university youth festival will start tomorrow(21-01-2010). The venue for the fest is at cherthala. It is after a long period of 12 years, cherthala is becoming the venue for University youth festival. The inauguration processions will start tomorrow evening from the “Vayalar Raktasakshi Mandapam” and from Varanadu Naduvile Kokilam which is the birth place of Irayiman Thampi. The competitions will be conducted from January 22 to 26. The inauguration of the fest will be done by Padmashri Lt.Col.Mohanlal. There are totally 8 stages for the youth festival. There will totally 64 events in which students from 207 colleges participating. Accommodation facilities are arranged for participants at various hotels nearby. Film stars Mamootty, Jayaram, Suresh Gopi and Dileep will also visit the venue on various days.

Kottayam flower fest attracts all

The flower fest in the Kottayam Nagampadom Muncipal ground is now the centre of attraction. This is the 48th flower exhibition organized by the Agri Horti culture Society. The flower fest “pushpamela” started on 14th of this month and ends on 17th .Flowers and plants from various parts of the world are exhibited here. Various competitions in the field of gardening as well as flower arranging are conducted with the fest. The ground is filled with people from all parts of the district and nearby districts too. Many stalls introducing new concepts and products in the area of horticulture and agriculture are setup here.The fest is made more attractive with the presence of film stars and cultural events.

Calicut won the Golden Cup

Calicut, the host of the 50th Kerala School Youth festival becomes the champions too.This is the 4th consecutive victory of them. They had achieved a great score of 790.Kannur became second with 723 points. The chief attraction of the closing ceremony was the presence of the glorified singer Dr.K.J Yesudas. The winners were in a great mood of celebration. An unfortunate incident occurred was the model of the Golden cup presented to winners broke into 2 pieces as the News Reporters of different Malayalam channels competed to take it to their reporting studios.

BarCamp Kerala 7

The seventh barcamp is going to be conducted on 20th December 2009 in the Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, changanassery. It ia also called barcamp kerala 7 Christmas edition. For the non techies you may not have a clue about what barcamp is for their information it is cool but intense unconfferrence. There is a live blogging section with BarCamp Kerala.

The different sessions of barcamp Kerala are

1.Barcamp Kerala (History and Present)

by Kevin Babu

2.Innovation! – “The UST Global Way”
by Harikrishnan Nair

3.Better NGO’s with Better Technology
by Jithin C Nedumala

4.Scrum and Procrastination
by Hafiz

5.Building complex web site the Drupal way
by Fredrik Jonsson

6.Giving life to discaded Computers with LTSP
by VU2SWX

7.Zope and Plone
by Ignatius Kunjumon

8.3D Computer Graphics Programming
by Praseed Pai

9.Security & Security Theater
by Niyaz PK

10.Introduction to Open Street Mapping
by Niju Mohan C P

11.Device management in modern Linux system
by Unnikrishnan

12.Campus Blogging
by Kevin Babu

13.Media Hypocrisy and Freedom of Speech
by Kenney Jacob

14.Multi Monitor Machines
by Binny V A

The route to the destination

Kristu Jyoti college is 1.5 kms from Changanassery Railway Station and 2.5 kms from Changanassery Bus Stand. It is only about 3.5 rs from Changanassery private bus stand + 15 rs auto.

BarCamp Kerala Live Blogging

BarCamp Kerala 8

BarCamp Kerala 8 Live Blogging and Report

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