ACM Challenge of Code 2010

ACM ( Association for Computing Machinery) Bangalore launches "Challenge of Code" which will celebrate and award innovative/ quality projects in the open source domain.

• Organizations can submit ideas online at http://ideas.intuit.in/
• Partcipating organization should assign a Project Manager to administer the project.
• ACM Bangalore will notify the project manager of acceptance.
• Selected organizations can create their projects on Intuit’s Brainstorm platform.
• Individual developers and programmers than vote on the Intuit platform to work with a particular organization leading to the formation of teams.
• If the organization finds the individual competent enough to work on the project then the organization invites the individual to work on the project and the participants are notified of acceptance.
• Participants get familiar with the organizations they would be working with
• Participants start working with the concerned organization on the official start date of the challenge
• ACM Bangalore will provide the platform for the participants to work
• Participants and organizations give midterm gate reviews and evaluations
• Final work will be reviewed by the judges selected by ACM Bangalore team and the best entries will be awarded as determined in the sole discretion of the Judges. 

Eclipse open source foundation

Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
The Eclipse Project was originally created by IBM in November 2001 and supported by a consortium of software vendors. The Eclipse Foundation was created in January 2004 as an independent not-for-profit corporation to act as the steward of the Eclipse community.

International Conference for Open Source Computer aided Drug Discovery

On the occasion of its silver jubilee (19984-2009), Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) Chandigarh, India is organizing an international conference on “Open Source for Computer Aided Drug Discovery” from 22-26th March 2009. The major goal of this conference is to bring all the peoples working in the field of drug discovery on a single platform in order to synchronize process of drug discovery. For details: http://www.imtech.res.in/oscadd/

TI Beagle Board for Indian open source developers and hobbyists

Texas Instruments recently introduced the pocket-size, USB-powered Beagle Board based on TI's OMAP3530 applications processor. It features an ARM Cortex-A8 core, 2D/3D graphics engine and high-performance TMS320C64x+ digital signal processor (DSP) core.This will help open source developers and hobbyists in India to realize their creative design ideas without being restricted by expensive hardware development tools, lackluster performance capabilities, high power consumption or stifled design environments.
Source: Pradeep Chakraborty blog

Open Source in Drug Discovery (OSDD)

Spicy IP carried an interview with Prof Samir Brahmachari, DG, CSIR, on OPDD, which throws light on many aspects of this revolutionary concept.... Read on