The January 9th GLUG meet will be held at Netcore's Parel office [1] at 3PM. The topic for this GLUG meet is Open Source Architecture and the speaker will be Satish Mohan of Red Hat.

This GLUG meet will also see us giving a farewell to G Karunakar, the technical lead for the Indlinux.org project. Karunakar has played a tremendous role in resolving the technical issues around Indian language computing and his expertise has been sought by FLOSS localization groups in Nepal, Bhutan and other countries. We will sorely miss him and wish him the best for his future plans.

Wish you all a happy 2005!

Venky

[1] Directions to Netcore (www.netcore.co.in)

Office Address:

Netcore Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 402, Peninsula Chambers, Ganpat Rao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel (West), Mumbai 400 013. India. Tel: +91 (22) 5662 8000

Directions to reach our office:

The nearest train stations are Lower Parel (Western Line, about 10 mins walk) and Currey Road (Central Line, about 20 mins walk).

If you are coming from Mahalaxmi Station, take Senapati Bapat Marg (Tulsi Pipe Road), you will pass Phoenix Mills on the left. Do not take the flyover. Keep going staight next to the flyover (below), and at the 4-way intersection (there is a traffic light), make a left, and then an immediate right into Peninsula Corporate Park. In the complex (you will see two buildings under construction), come to Peninsula Chambers, a 6-storeyed glass building with a cell tower on the top. We are on the 4th floor.

From Worli Naka, make a left onto Ganpat Rao Kadam Marg, go past Shriram

Mills. We are ahead of A-Z Industrial estate towards the intersection with Senapati Bapat Marg (Tulsi Pipe Road). You will see an entrance on the left for Peninsula Corporate Park. In the complex (you will see two buildings under construction), come to Peninsula Chambers, a 6-storeyed glass building with a cell tower on the top. We are on the 4th floor.

From Dadar (Western railway) station side, if you are coming on Senapati

Bapat Marg (Tulsi Pipe Road), don't take the flyover which starts at Kamala Mills. Go below it, and make a right at the next junction. This is Ganpat Rao Kadam Marg. Make a right into Peninsula Corporate Park. In the complex (you will see two buildings under construction), come to Peninsula Chambers, a 6-storeyed glass building with a cell tower on the top. We are on the 4th floor.

Our building is right next to Orange and behind Piramal/Wellspring Hospital. We are in the same building as Airtel, JWT, Mindshare, Amarchand Mangaldas, Kotak Mahindra Insurance and ICICI OneSource.

Parking is available in the basement - the first level has 10 parking slots for Netcore (numbers 1-10).

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