0930: Good morning!, Here we are with yet another BarCamp. This one is specialized into training & video casting of tutorials.
0945: People are still coming. Not a very big crowd though. Now this is the actual crowd who comes for Camp & not for the free t-shirt. This time we have not kept any free t-shirts :)
1000: Freeman has put up the story board & speakers posted there timings. I'll be speaking @ 1200. Freeman is about to start the intro session .
1010: Freeman gave a brief intro & guidelines on how to start the session & get it recorded.
Hey whats this, general discussion taking turn towards ease of use Linux & people are emphasizing on teaching people how to use it. Not bad!
1040: After a healthy discussion on coding practices, IDE vs text editors to write code etc. we are now ready to go with first session on Google gears by freeman
1045: Session Starts - Google gears in bigger room.
1110: That was a short & sweet session by Freeman on Google gears, a brief intro to the subject
1115: Rakesh Raju is giving session on 3D game development. An interesting tutorial for those who want to make their own games.
1140: Amit karpe started his session on Drupal. He is giving a brief intro on how can someone start a website with point & click installation and get a powerful CMS. In the other room, Narayan is letting people know how they can do testing using a tools called SAHI.
1210: Ok, my session on safe netizen is about to start in another 5 minutes and lunch will be served after that. In the smaller room we had 2 sessions on KDE dev tools by Ashish & software routing in FOSS by Vaibhav. I wish I could have attended these, but I was busy scaring people with password thefts
*******LUNCH*******
1400: It feels good to blog once your stomach is full & people have appreciated your talk.
My talk was on how to to do safe browsing & what to do when you see a certificate error.
1410: Post lunch session in smaller room is on Ketchlab is by Parth Bakshi & in the bigger room Priyank is taking a session on DOJO & JSON. Oh God! there is so much to learn in this internet world :).
1440: The next session in my room is on accessibility by Krishnakant, can you believe this guy is visually impaired and a master of Linux. He gave an eye opening session on software accessibility using ORCA. While we were busy listening to Krishnakant, in the other room Rohas gave a demo on Facebook API. I wanted to attend that but ORCA kind of held the attention & i forgot about facebook.
1530: Accessibility session pulled long & people enjoyed it a lot. We had a small tea break & gathered again for the remaining sessions
1600: Aah! after getting caffeinated Amit started his tutorial on Joomla & A Jain on fundamentals of AJAX. Unfortunately I didn't attended any one of these. Kinda tired man!
1630: Nearly done with all the sessions. Last 2 are still going but I'm out it.
1700: Finally all done, pack up boys!
Yet another successful camp
Thanks to all the Freeman , co-organizers , volunteers & all the campers.
Friday, August 17, 2007
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