PLUG Community

Pune GNU/Linux Users Group or PLUG is a community of GNU/Linux users in the city of Pune, India. Boasting a very active mailing list with discussions covering a wide-range of matters from technical, installation and configuration help to software copyright ethics and holy wars. They do a lot of promotion and support activities through the formal organ of their group, the PLUG Trust. PLUG has been involved in promoting FOSS for quite some years.PLUG members have been participating, supporting and volunteering in different FOSS activities and event held in and around pune.

PLUG Mash Event:

PLUG Mash is a technology event which includes a Hack-a-thon and a mashup camp. The Hack-a-thon will bring together many developers and contributors. It will aim to generate some serious code during the event in order to help grow the pool of FOSS contributors in India.


Date :October 13th and 14th 2007

Venue :Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan, Pune

What is it about

About 200 developers, techies, creative graphics artists from across India are planning to gather together at PLUG's FOSS Mashup this October to hack code, network with peers and demo their wares.


What do they do

They will team up to code snippets, functions and applications using free and open source software using Rails, Python, PHP, Perl to build solutions around Asterisk, Apache, Firefox and more. All software developed at the hack-a-thon will be released with open source licenses and will be available for download from the camp website. Participants can highlight their work to colleagues as well as on their CVs.

Hack-a-thon

Areas of Interest:

There is NO restriction on the technology to be used, as long as its Free & Open Source. (Neither does the tech have to be hip or cool). However, just to give a general idea :