The Board of Directors in their quest to bring the best of Open Source to the members have aligned the Society activities around the (Special Interest Group or SIG model. The S.I.G. model is the corner stone of focussed activities in societies like the I.E.E.E. (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and A.C.M. (Association of Computing Machinery).

The four SIGs identified are : OpenSource, Storage, Security and Entrepreneurship Each SIG will have a chair(person), mailing list and volunteer leads. In this quarter, the chair for each SIG will be nominated and volunteer leads will be identified. The mailing lists have been piloted and significant interest has been seen.

Please join the SIGs that interest you.

OpenSource Twincling List Open Source Technologies discussion list, Linux, BSD Operating systems. Web application development using PHP, PERL, Lua, Ruby, Ruby on Rails. Community related discussions, Student projects. Twincling Saturday Meets (TSM), Twincling College Meets (TCM). Coordination with students for Festivals, Workshops and Quiz at their colleges. Technical excellence is a core focus area in Open Source.

Archives available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling

Storage As the Small and Medium Business (SMB) organization focus on increasing efficiencies by undergoing computerization, large amounts of storage requirements will be seen. In order to provide a value proposition to the SMB segment, 'storage' has been identified as an important SIG.

Archives available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/storage

OpenSource and Entrepreneurship WiTi (What I Think Is) Based on queries, suggestions and feedback, we believe that this will help members with focus on Entrepreneurship and Opensource will benefit and take the vision of 'contribution to OpenSource from India' to another level. This also helps companies see the value proposition of Open Source.

Archives available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/witi

Feedback The Society is adopting new set of approaches and measures to unleash creativity and innovation in the way we reach out to audiences, build and nurture relationships and execute strategies. Please send in your suggestions to info@twincling.org