<div dir="ltr"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7523713489063084" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi everyone,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As most of you might know, KDE Meetup 2013 is just round the corner and everyone is extremely excited to be a part of it. Well, the event is going to be pretty awesome, seeing how far we have come. I am extremely proud to announce that we have gotten 300 registrations for the event. The registrations have been closed as of now. We have registrations from colleges all over India including NIT Durgapur, IIT Bombay, Bits Goa, IIT Delhi, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, NIT Warangal, ITM Gurgaon, Sikkim Manipal University, College of Engineering Guindy, Trident Academy of Technology Bhubaneshwar, and many more. We are eagerly waiting for the student communities from all these places to converge and meet at the event. All the preparations for the event are almost done. All thanks to perfect planning and the constant efforts of everyone involved with the event. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have gotten pretty great sponsors too and thanks to them, now this event shall be even better. </span></b><div>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One of them is SANIsoft, a company based in Nagpur, India which works on Open Source Technologies and they are experts in programming customized web applications using PHP and MySQL. </span></b></div>
<div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Another sponsor is VCreate Logic Private Limited (VCL) which is a product and software services company, headquartered in Bangalore, India. VCL specializes in cross-platform development, product engineering and migration using Qt/C++ framework. VCL primarily offers solutions for 2D/3D visualization domain and the design, development and UI challenges inherent in it. </span></b></div>
<div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ThoughtWorks is also our sponsor and is a privately owned global </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IT</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">consultancy</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> that delivers custom software, software tools, consulting and transformation services to startups and Global 1000 companies. It also has a products division, </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:initial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ThoughtWorks Studios</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, which creates and markets software development and project management applications. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The countdown has begun, only two more days to go! All of us are looking forward to see you there and I can assure you, it will definitely be worthwhile to attend it. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Regards,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Devaja</span></b><br></div></div></div>