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Pune Festival Website and Its Development


By Sanjay Sharma, Section Projects of QBTPL
Posted on Sat Jul 17, 2004 at 01:40:21 PM EST

The Pune Festival is a week long extravaganza in mid September. So we want to get a shell of the site out in about a week-10 days. Web efforts earlier have not had strong support and so their efforts were rather limited. Our effort should be to catch the majesty of the festival which coincides with the Ganeshotsav, and during which the whole city comes alive. Last year the website announced to offer the show online - but I am not sure how successful it was. This time we want our site to record as much as it can of the life during that time so that next year we are ready with the best site on the festival.

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.

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by Sanjay Sharma on Wed Jul 21, 2004 at 06:18:55 PM EST
Hi Rajesh,

I have created a bunch of stories, sections, and topics, and I will briefly describe what needs to go on the frontpage, and also what are the logical groupings of the links on the front page.

First is a random box that shall show image from a famous personality in an old edition of the festival:

* From The Memory Vault  

The next important thing is that artists should be able to send their portfolio if they want to perform during the festival. So the next link should have a box of its own and must stand out.

* Artists - Submit Your Portfolio Here  

The following links are to stories that will roll off the frontpage as new stories are posted. So there must be links to each of these stories somewhere in a box on the frontpage. If I had to group these logically they would be as                            

* Festival History                      
*
Pune's Historical Past                          

* Ganesh Mandals        

* Events Schedule                      

* Accomodation in Pune                  
*
Reaching Pune                        

* Contact Us                            
*
Internet Team                        

* Chariman's Message                    
*
Festival Organizers              
* Sponsorships                

After this we need to have a box about the Member Dairies

* Member Diaries                        

The following are boxes that have to be put somewhere on the frontpage.

* Recent Comments        
*
Who's Online        
* Older Stories        
*
Login Box      
** Main Menu      

I have already created a bunch of sections, and I need to put them in a logical sequence. I will do that soon.

  SECTIONS
Festival History        
Events & Performances      
Lord Ganesha      
Ask Questions                  
Miscellaneous            
Pune Tourism            
Accomodation in Pune            
Memories of Past Festivals    
Ganesh Mandals              
Member Diaries      
Links of Interest    
For Admins Only      

Take care, and more soon. If you need me when I am not online, sms me ... and please send me your number. It got erased off my phone.

Thanks,
Sanjay

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