Hello all Surtis,

Happy New Year to all of you and OurSurat.com wishes you a very well new year ahead.

With this new year, We are planning to add a new Education section due to heavy public demand. Currently in first phase we are targeting SSC and HSC or in other words Standard 10 and 12 Question Papers only. As, it is not just doing website development for adding this part, We will also need Question Paper Sets and as many as we could have. So here is where we need help from all of you OurSurat.com members or any people living in Surat. So I request you on behalf of OurSurat.com Team to help us in any way mentioned below:

1. If you have close contact at any school in Surat, help us to get last 5+ years papers from any school of Surat.
2. If you know some publications who publishes any paper sets (Surat schools / Board) which we can use.
3. If you are from education field, you can guide us the best way to present all question papers at single place.
4. If you are students from Surat, How we can make this section more useable for you.
5. Or any other way, which you can help us for this section.

To help us for this section, You can use any one of the following mediums:

1. Call us on our Help Line Number 955 8888 559 and Ask that you want to Talk about Education Section.
2. Email us on our special email address education@oursurat.com
3. You can also post your contact details and suitable time as comment to this post and We will give  you a callback.

Surat already took first step towards IT Revolution, By helping us – You can be part of our effort to giving society back.

On behalf of OurSurat.com Team,
Ashvin Savani

OurSurat.com booked Stall at IT Expo 2010 like we had last year. Last year we got around 2200 forms filled up by Surati people. With that consideration, this time we participated in IT Expo 2010.

This time was superb and we received great response from everywhere! Here are some interesting things we experienced so far:

1. More than 6200 people visited us in last 3 days and will participate for FREE 100 National SMS campaign.
2. People is interested more on Web and IT than last year.
3. HIND TV from Surat, covered OurSurat.com in their daily news.
4. Some another News Channel from Mumbai, covered our Interview too.
5. Too less IT people / Web Professionals we found visiting IT Expo or OurSurat.com stall.

If you still not visited, Visit us at Stall # 323 in Web & Software Dom and Get 100 National SMS for FREE.

Update: By mistake I wrote “More than 6200 people visited in 3 years” which should be 3 days

Hello Suratis,

Kem chale che navratri? I hope all of you are enjoying it in pure surti style! and be safe from Swine Flu!

There is huge public demand to invite friends to OurSurat.com through their existing friends or contacts. So we are planning to do it in two ways. First is email and second is via mobile. We will also planning to add some more value to inviting friends by giving some points, Free T-Shirts, Free Gifts and Free SMS like offers.

About emails, We currently planning to support inviting contacts from following emails:

1. Gmail
2. Yahoo!
3. Hotmail
4. MSN
5. Microsoft Live!
6. in.com
7. RediffMail
8. IndiaTimes
9. Sify

You will also able to invite your friends (by sending them emails through orkut automatically) from Orkut. I did not see that many surti’s are using Twitter otherwise we could support that too!

Second option is SMS. You will able to invite your friends by SMS. It will be like creating your AddressBook and You can use the same AddressBook to send FREE SMS later when we will introduce that feature.

We are really working hard, towards getting as many features as we can add to OurSurat.com and making it more useful to All Surti’s! And as always, We welcome all of your suggestion from bottom of our heart. Keep supporting us to fuel more energy to make OurSurat.com better and better.

Ashvin Savani,

Leading OurSurat.com

I really thank you Viral for your feedback and suggestion about Jantri Values.

As we all know there is much happening about Jantri Values and Land / Property Agreement taxation in last few months.  And we really think that this will be valuable feature for OurSurat.com and it will help many people in many ways. So I give +10 to this feature and we will mostly try to add it in our first beta if possible, otherwise it will be surely part of second beta.

Viral, If you have any online or offline resources about Jantri Values, Or if anybody else have such information – Which can help us in anyway, Please send it to oursurat-at-avinashi-dot-com.

Once again, Thanks for the wonderful suggestion, Viral.

Viral is a System Administrator in SVNIT, Surat. Just so others know about his techincal knowledge.