Projects of QBTPL (page 2)

Microsoft has just released a new search engine, and our site GurgaonScoop.com is Number 1.

Hope you all had a wonderful Diwali and Eid. Best wishes to all, and season's greetings for the coming new year ...

We need to make all the links in the header working, and also all the ones in the navigation bar on top of the left column. All the material can be obtained from the old cwgdelhi2010.com site.

We don't need to put the actual bid documents on our qbtpl.net site, but just give a direct link to the site of the Commonwealth Games Federation site. Need to see if the Bid Update 2 is available on the CGF site, and if so we need to give a link to that too.

Regarding the old news that we had in the right column, we will transfer that to this interactive site. We will create a new section like "Road To Winning The Bid," or something like that, and put all the stories in that. This is purely for the sake of keeping a record of the coverage for historical purposes.

Last year about 200 films were shown there. Remember it is an International film festival. www.puneinternationalfilmfestival.com is the official site. We also own the domain www.punefestival.com.

One good film site for the Asian Film Festival is at HindustanTimes.com - Osian Cine Fan It gives the major categories and also coverage of international films.

In our case just like we have "Artists - Submit Portfolio" at the www.thepunefestival.com we have to have a section here so that people can submit their films.

We will also carry a listing of the films as they develop, and also a listing of the films shown in the last 2 Pune International Film Festival - PIFF.

We want to transfer all the relevant material that is currently there at aicc.org.in like we did for the Indian Olympic Association website. Additionally, Congress Party also publishes a magazine called Congress Sandesh and that also has a lot of information. This website is run by Sanjay Puri.

We want sections where we can put all the press releases as the come. If there are transcripts of the daily media breifing we would also like to carry that.

We also want people to carry out political discussions on the website, and from seeing the comments that are there on stories of papers like the Indian Express leads me to believe that there are a lot of people who would like to anonymously discuss politics. The www.congress4india.com website should allow that.

It is without doubt one of the biggest things there in Pune. There is a gathering of the exponents of arts and culture. All shows are free (but tickets are in great demand) and the shows get good local coverage.

Also there are some (I think 2500+!) Ganesh mandals all over the city and they have their own decorations. Best win prizes. Need some photographs of the better ones in these.

Lot of outdoor stuff like motocross, bullock-cart racing, etc. There should be some good photographs of the older 15 shows.

Some resources to look at are available at

1. A nice page where an older Pune Festival (which one ?) is described. ganpatibappamorya.faithweb.com/festival.htm . At the bottom of the page are some links to the decorations that were done by some of the mandals.
2. This website carries some good info and covered the '99 (and probably the '98 editions) http://www.abwebplus.com/punefestival
3. Here is good site that tells how it connects back to Tilak and Indian Freedom Struggle. www.punenet.com
4. Ganesh festival on Maharashtra Tourism website Here is their official website which should have some good local images and info.
5. Website with some nice festival photographs www.amitkulkarni.info
6. nice long article on the deeper significance and more details at www.sify.com.
7. the ganesh festival is the biggest in in Pune and Maharashtra. It would be nice to some day expand into covering the Mumbai Ganesh Festival too.

The focus is going to start from Sector 23, Gurgaon. Will also try to get this site up in Google by tying it to the rest of the network of our sites.

On the site people should be able to post questions about services like plumbing, electrician, etc., and receive responses. They should also be able to offer things for sale and buy for free. We will try to see if Sector 23 events - and, later other sectors - are posted, and if necessary create office where people could email/fax/telephone in the event.

We should hope to end up with a site like this www.craigslist.com where each link on craigslist is equivalent to a section heading on our site. By doing this mapping we have a software that can duplicate craigslist, and the development of the community, easily.

What we gain is a prestigious property which we can then try to duplicate from city to city. This is inline with the mission of our company, and that is, to empower communities to come together and create a niche "newspaper" that allows formal news and informal postings and discussions amongst community members.