Kerala Microsoft User Group (http://k-mug.org) received the best developer user group in India as part of the Microsoft Community impact award 2010 announced by Microsoft today.  Microsoft Community IMPACT Awards recognizes the great work done by members of the technology community in India to drive awareness, readiness and excitement about Microsoft technologies among the broad Developer and IT Professional ecosystem in INDIA.  Award selection criteria includes the various user group activities (such as technical sessions, trainings, developer conferences etc) conducted by the community in last year. More

Kerala Google Technology User Group activities kicked off by the mega launch event at Technopark Trivandrum. we got 125 members for the launch event.  Techies from different IT companies in and outside Technopark, students and tech entrepreneurs were among the participants.  The event started by Sreejumon by introducing and explaining the objectives and the proposed activities of Kerala GTUG. There were four technical sessions on Google technologies by Anash Oommen, a Developer Programs Engineer from Google, Hyderabad; Praseed Pai, a .net Consultant and Solutions Architect from Kochi; Rajesh Varghese, a Software Engineer at Software Incubator, Trivandrum and Sreejumon who is an Architect with Nokia Bangalore. More details at GTUG site.