After the huge success of previous recruitment drive at Kolkatta, this time we are coming to Bhubaneswar - The Temple City of India. 

Date: 26th(Saturday), 27th(Sunday) & 28th(Monday) of November 2011

Venue: Rajdhani Engineering College, Near Mancheswar Rly. Station, Mancheswar Rly Colony, Bhuabaneswar - 751017 www.rec.ac.in

Activities: 26th November (Saturday)
Preliminary Process conducted by Nicco Ventures

27th & 28th November (Sunday & Monday)
Final Process conducted by Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd which consists of Written Test on 27th and Interview  of the selected candidates on 28th.

The final results will be declared within: 10 December 2011
The offer letters will be issued within: 27 January 2012
The selected candidates have to join from: August 1st 2012

If you want to attend the recruitment drive, contact Nicco Ventures now.

A sample written test is given below:

 

UPDATE (10 December 2011) - Final Results

The following candidates are selected after the technical and HR interview. Selected candidates will get offer letter and further instructions via email.

Priyanka Kumari - Konark Institute of Science & Technology
Garry Thomaas - Nalanda Institute of Technology
Sandeep Panda - Jagannath Institute of Technology and Management

Congratulations to Bibin Mohan on reaching successful 1000 jokes submissions at www.tintumon.com . He has been contributing quality tintumon jokes from the launch of the website on 14th November 2009. The welcome page of Tintumon.com now contains a graphics of Bibin Mohan with his favorite willys jeep. Check out www.tintumon.com now !!

The best thing about Bibin's jokes are the quality which he doesnt compromise for the number of jokes. Even for the last 50 jokes he waited for months to submit quality jokes to the website. And it took more than one week to submit the 1000th joke after the 999th one.

In real-life Bibin Mohan is working as a Sales Engineer in a private firm at Thrissur. He is from Cherpu village in Thrissur. He own a Willys Jeep, which he bought last year from his hard earned money. He is also a motivated and dedicated bodybuilder. Following is a small phone interview we had with Bibin Mohan.

How you came to know about Tintumon.com ?

I saw the launch news in Mathrubhumi and joined the website that day itself. I got many friends from the website. At that time Orkut was the popular social networking site of Malayalees. Tintumon was a good way to find new friends who share your interests. The acceptance of jokes only after approval of moderator was the good thing about Tintumon.com. It avoided many bad jokes and repetition of jokes.

Where you get this many number of jokes ?

I create Tintumon jokes based on the real life events happening in my friendcircle. Also when I read a new joke somewhere, I analyze and find a way to convert it to a Tintumon joke.

Please tell about the character "Jintappan" created by you

Jintappan is a character in Tintumon's world. I derived the name from another active user of Tintumon.com - my friend Jinto Antony. Jintappan is a friend of tintumon in my jokes. Later Jintappan started appearing in other jokes also. A online newspaper wrote about Jintappan in their article about Tintumon. All these things happened like a surprise.

What is your experience with Foradian ?

Foradian is an awesome team of proud and humble people. I know tintumon.com is not a viable model for profitable business. But still Foradian is keeping the site alive. And it is always a pleasure to see Foradian achieving new heights in the world of internet technologies through other projects like Fedena. Boom Boom Foradian.

Best of Bibi - Tintumon Copyright Joke. Click to read

You can contact Bibin Mohan on Facebook.

Started as a simple student management system two years ago, Fedena has now grown to an enterprise collaborative tool for educational institutions with tools to deliver virtual classrooms online.

New Feature 1: Big Blue Button Integration

Big BlueButton is an open source web conferencing system developed primarily for distance education. Big Blue Button enables universities and colleges to deliver high-quality learning experience to remote students.

With the introduction of Big Blue Button to the Fedena Pro Services package, Fedena now features virtual classrooms and online video conferences. Multiple users can share their webcam at the same time and there is no limit on the number of simultaneously active webcams. The presenter can upload any PDF presentation, office document and keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, and see the presenters mouse pointer. BigBlueButton voice conferencing supports voice over IP (VOIP) conferencing out-of-the-box. All your students need are speakers and a microphone to participate. The presenter can broadcast their desktop for all students to see. Works on mac, Unix, and PC. The Whiteboard controls feature let you to annotate and call out key parts of your presentation for viewers. Record and Playback feature is coming soon to help you record you lectures (slides + audio + chat) for later playback by students.

New Feature 2: Task Management

Now Fedena allows you to set taks for different users of the system. Principal can add tasks and assign them to teachers. Management can add tasks for principal. Teachers can add tasks for students. The options and the value are limitless. The user assigned to the task can leave comments to the task regarding its status. This is a nice add-on to improve productivity of employees and management.

New Feature 3: Discussions and Private Groups

It is the Google Circles, Facebook Groups within Fedena. Create private groups and start discussions. All the discussions and the updates will come as message and will be reflected in the newly designed dynamic dashboard.

New Feature 4: Dynamic Dashboard

The multi-school version of Fedena already features a dynamic dashboard to keep you updated on the pulse of the school/college on every login. You can expect the same dashboard to individual fedena installations very soon.

New Feature 5: Add-on modules as Plugins

Our engineering team is working really hard on an innovative way to integrate the add-on modules as plugins. Installing an add-on module will be very easy similar to installing apps in your iphone or android. This will open-up a future possibility of Fedena Marketplace for add-on modules.

New Feature 5: Syllabus and Course Management

Very soon you will be able to integrate e-learning contents with Fedena through its innovative course management system. This feature is presently under development and will be available for use in another 3 to 4 months. This will avoid the need for thirdy party course management systems to be installed along with fedena.

Stay tuned for more surprise updates from the Fedena Team.

The long-awaited release of Fedena 2.1 is now available at Project Fedena. There are lot of new features added and all the identified issues of version 2.0 is resolved in this release.

Github - https://github.com/projectfedena/fedena_v2.1
Release notes - http://projectfedena.org/changelog
Related Downloads - http://projectfedena.org/download
Installation Instructions - http://projectfedena.org/install

What is new in Fedena 2.1 ?

New look for dashboard with unique and beautiful icons made from scratch for Project Fedena

Fedena 2.1 features 14 beautiful icons designed by Kondratieva Anna from Ukraine. Have a look at her official website and Dribble profile.

Lot of care was taken while designing the icons to make it unique and convey the meanings easily to an international userbase. All the descriptions of the dashboard icons are converted to pure text to support translations of fedena in future.

Enhanced Finance Module

The finance module of Fedena is heavily optimized according to the feedback and review from our users. Important changes include

• Included partial payment option
• Multiple admission number entry for additional fees
• Import fee structure of previous batch
• Creation of Master fees for different batches made easy
• Batch wise display of Master fees
• Added transaction date to expence, income & donations
• Showing FEES PAID status in student profile
• Advance Fee Payment Option for students
• Financial start date and end date for institutions
• Optimised finance graph ploting system

And many more. Read http://projectfedena.org/changelog

Enhanced Human Resource Module

The human resource module of Fedena is now equipped with useful features for the efficient running of your educational institution. Important changes include

• Payslip reject option for individual employee
• Carry forward in employee leave types
• Auto/manual leave reset of employees for a specified interval of time
• Handling employee subject association when a employee is removed
• Handling of reporting manager when an employee is removed
• Employee Leave history(Option to view leave history for a given time period)
• Auto change in user profile details when changing corresponding student/employee profile .

And many more. Read http://projectfedena.org/changelog

Other Important Changes

There are lot of small but efficient changes throughout Fedena like

• Assigning Class teacher for a batch
• Mark and Attendance entering privilege for assigned subjects
• Option for deleting an event
• All events to be shown in admin's calendar
• Size limit for student and employee photo
• Changing Photo saving system using paperclip
• Attendance report for all the students should be taken at one go- PDF report
• OFFLINE/ONLINE settings for fedena

And many more. Read http://projectfedena.org/changelog

Fedena User Guide

This time we have a surprise gift for you. A detailed manual on the features of Fedena is available for free download. Click on the image to download the userguide or get it from http://projectfedena.org/download

Fedena Windows Installer

We are sure that you will love this gift. We are providing a free windows installer for fedena which helps you install fedena in a few mouseclicks. No technical knowledge required. This will install Ruby, Rails, MySQL and other dependencies for Fedena. Get it from http://projectfedena.org/download

Fedena with Bundler patch

Another gift with this release is the Bundler patched Fedena for easy installation on servers. Bundle patched Fedena can be downloaded for Windows and Linux. You may use this version at Cpanel hosting providers with bundler support. Get it from http://projectfedena.org/download

Hope you will love this release of Fedena. Please support us by spreading the news and recommending fedena to schools and colleges.

Checkout our new 404 page at www.foradian.com/404

The concept creatively signifies the meaning Foradian name and logo. It features a 4 dimensional hypercube drawn using HTML 5. You can use the mouse and keyboard to rotate the hypercube along different planes. Spend some time playing with the Tesseract and learn about higher dimensions.

The credit of the html5 hypercube goes to Milosz Kosmider . Milosz is an electronic music producer. See the orginal version of hypercube at http://hypercube.milosz.ca/

To know more about dimensions above 3, watch the following video.

Tesseract - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

Foradian name and logo - http://blog.foradian.com/four-secrets-you-dont-know-about-foradian-log

Here is your chance to win a brand new Blackberry Curve 8520. Suggest a creative concept for the logo of the famous Aditya Group of Educational Institutions, Andhrapradesh, India.

Our creative wing BrandMango is doing a brand makeover for Aditya Group. Considering the value and impact of this project, we decided to invite logo concepts from all the creative followers of foradian. You dont have to design anything. Just tell in simple words how the logo should look like. Our designers at BrandMango will take care of designing the logo from your concept.

About Aditya Group of Educational Institutions

Aditya is a well known and respected group of institutions based out of Kakinada, Andhrapradesh. Established in 1984, Aditya Academy entered the noble field of education with a public school to cater to the prerequisite demands of primary and secondary education. As the journey progressed, Aditya Academy simply grew from strength to strength, thus spreading its wings to Junior Colleges, Degree Colleges, P.G. Colleges, Engineering and Pharmacy Colleges, Nursing Colleges and Teacher Training Institutions. A gamut of 50 educational institutions in different streams, with a faculty of 5,000 members and surging student strength of 50,000 stands testimony to the pillaring effect Aditya Academy has had on the society in the past three decades. A small dream was transformed into a flamboyant reality indeed; this is the story of Aditya Educational Institutions. Preferred logo concept

In the words of N.Deepak Reddy, Secretary, Aditya Educational Institutions

For an educational institution as mighty as Aditya, some serious responsibility lies on the shoulders for we not just mould careers but lives of individuals. There are great instances and cases where students join at the KG level and leave us only at the PG level, so they technically spend two decades trusting and believing brand Aditya. I am proud to say that we at Aditya, have always realized this and have performed our duties with utmost care and interest.

The logo should portray the concept of evolution of a 3 year old toddler to a 22 year old professional in his stay over the years in Aditya. How this idea can be portrayed through a simple logo. Give your inputs and win the blackberry.

How to submit your concepts ?

Submit the concepts via the comment form given below. Dont forget to leave your email id, so that we can contact you later. You can login with your facebook or twitter accounts also. If you have any image to upload, use http://imgur.com/

How the winner will be selected ?

The submitted concepts will be reviewed by Deepak Reddy of Aditya Group and Arun Raveendran of BrandMango. Proper feedback will be given on good concepts. BrandMango designers will be designing logos based on the favorite concepts. Once Aditya Group approves the logo, the winner will be announced.

Conditions

• Anyone can participate in this competition except Directors of Foradian Technologies.
• You can submit more than one concept or design.
• If more than one person submits same concept, advantage will be given to better description and clarity.
• Other people may submit concepts motivated/inspired from yours. If you don't want this to happen, please don't participate. If you love your concept, set it free.
• There will not be any consolation prizes.
• The copyright of the selected concept will belong to Aditya Group.
• Decision of Foradian will be final.
• Last date of submission is 5th August 2011

 Most of you might be already knowing the KISS Principle. Some like to read it as "Keep it Simple, Stupid" and some others "Keep it Simple, Sweet". There are also other variations like "keep it short and simple" or "keep it simple and straightforward"

For us, it is "Keep it Simple, Sincere" - the management philosophy Foradian successfully implemented from day 1 of its existence. It is difficult to be simple and sincere in this world. But it is always beneficial in the long run of the company.

We always communicate every thing in a simple and sincere  way to our customers. Our pricings are transparent and we explain why we charge like that for any particular service. During project proposals and milestone planning, we tell in advance what all features will be there and what all features will not be there. This has helped us mainly in avoiding false expectations in customers and saving alot of precious manhours.

Our motivation for Simplicity is Mahathma Gandhi. He is the ultimate role model for anyone interested in a simple life or minimalism. The leadership team at Foradian respects and believes in Gandhian principles and adopted them for our management practices. Following is a slideshare presentation of "10 Leadership Lessons From Mahatma Gandhi"

Want to succeed in something?Then work hard for it. Want to get something done? Just do it! We complicate our lives for no reason. Keep it simple! Plan, persevere and be persistent. This is the basic mantra for any successful venture, or to achieve any significant goal in life. Have a vision toward the goal, plan for it, and work hard to achieve it. Gandhi can be your best mentor

Regarding the magic word Sincere, we loved the awesome speech of Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis, Pune. The highlights of the speech is given the following image. You can read the full speech here. We loved the phrase don't be serious, be sincere. This is another principle the leadership team at Foradian lives by.

People often ask us how we run a profitable business using an opensource product. Hope you know that our main product Fedena is opensource and available for free download. Fedena is usually a product of reference in startup discussions related to opensource business models.

Our CEO  was interviewed by Abhay Tawase from University of Liverpool for his dissertation on "The Study of Open Source Business Models: An Investigation into the Economic Viability and the Strategies of Open Source Software Companies". Founded in 1881, the University of Liverpool has an impressive history of pioneering education and research, with a particular emphasis on 'education for the professions'. 9 Nobel Laureates and countless thousands of professionals have passed through the University since 1881.

Screenshots of the pages mentioning Fedena (pages 81 to 84)

Fedena is evolving very fast and reaching to  new markets. Our enhanced website with rich content will be launched next week. If you havent seen the GloboSchool version of Fedena, which is successfully marketed in Latin American nations, see the video given below. It is in Spanish.

Read the full dissertation here >>