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First of all I am very happy to announce that Prasad, our CTO is all set to rock the stage at FOSS.in. He is going to take a tutorial on how to write applications on the Mozilla platform (Yes, that is what we are doing here and Prasad is probably one of the best in this country, at it.) So Prasad and I will be in Bangalore from Dec. 4th to 8th at the event.

This event happens to be a pretty big deal for the folks up at Mozilla Foundation as they have put it up on their own site that they would be visiting. It is a pretty big event for the company as this will open all doors directly to Mozilla Foundation. All the big guys at the foundation seem to be coming down including the CEO, Mitchell Baker.

Yes, indeed Synovel is looking for bright young programming talent at this moment. We expect them to have crossed the seven seas, trekked through the himalayas and created a flavor or linux. Hold on, that seems to be the profile of the people already on board!

We are actually looking for bright, passionate young people with the zeal to work in open source technology and create something for themselves. It is the not years of formal experience that matters, it is the extent to which one has dug into the technology and got their hands dirty that matters. Right now, we need people proficient in Php + Ajax development and we are also looking at programmers who have worked with opensource servers such as Postfix, Jabber etc.

The good part - our office has access to a pool!

Paraphrasing what one of the interns said (actually euphemizing), "Take that M$"

We are the kind of people who just have to set up everything on our own. Thankfully building furniture on our own is still not in style here, ie. we don't have the tools nor the parts... so that part we bought - seven tables, seven chairs. That we thought is more than sufficient for the next 6 months.

Coming to our actual hardware - it was handpicked. Nothing fancy or out of this world but still handpicked. The guys actually went down to the store, picked out the hardware and got it assembled.

Four Desktop machines, one server, a switch, a wireless hub. I will let the techie guys describe that in detail. Well, let me just brief you about what we achieved at the end of the day: