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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Ok, here goes the 3rd barcamp of Mumbai & this time blogcamp was plugged along with it.
It was a good camp, i would call it a great success.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
So here ends the 4th BarCamp of Pune, the theme this time was "Love for technology" inspired by the valentines day :)
We saw a good crowd of real geeks this time. Low on talks about web2.0 bubble or ERship and very high on technical stuff. Thats what Pune loves.
I'd put in this way: Pune "The city of geeks"
Ooh! I'm too tired to write more, check these links for all you want to know.
Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/barcamppune
Blog: http://barcamppune.blogspot.com/
Videos: http://www.youtube.com/barcamppune
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Its 0045hrs and now I'm ready to hit the bed after doing the initial setup for BarCampPune4 in the morning
Too tired to put more, see http://barcamppune.blogspot.com/ for details
Catch you in the morning.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
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Monday, October 15, 2007
So finally I reached SJMSOM by 1130hrs & saw that my talk was scheduled at 1400hrs. Tarun created a good base before I reached by the catchy "gabbar" statement for my topic.
Was an OK experience all together but was sorry to see the missing punch of BarCamps. All the topics of the day were circling around "start-ups" & "web2.0" (Except a very few). Is this BarCamp actually meant for?
It would be great to see more variety of topics in future BarCamps
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Very true!
Attended MashupCamp yesterday in Pune & here I'm on my way to BarCampMumbai2.
Thought of trying the alternate mode of commute to Mumbai & hopped on "Deccan Queen" in the morning at about 0715. Man! this is a nice train. Much comfortable than Volvo travel to Mumbai.
And above all, I'm connected. Thanks to Reliance data card, speed sucks but connectivity rocks :)
I hope to reach event venue by 1100hrs. Already informed Tarun to book my slot for the talk. From the BarCamp wiki, its seems like BCM2 is already a hit, registration count has gone above the expectation & people are still registering.
I hope this would be an interesting day.
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Friday, August 17, 2007
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.
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Saturday, July 07, 2007
Here we are organizing the third sequel of BarCamp in Pune
A deferred live report :)
0845: Reached Persistent Tower. As I entered the building the first thing I noticed was Kiran running around managing posters. This guy was the man behind the success of BarCampPune3.
0850: Started the day, managed a few posters & then moved to check registration desk @ 7th floor. Few volunteers were already there. Had the first look at the T-shirts which flew in from Bangalore in the morning only. Nice t-shirts, thanks thoughtworks
0900: People started pouring in, thank god it’s not raining at this moment. Registration started. People registering there laptops, putting stickers, admiring t-shirt, moving over to storyboard for planning there sessions
0945: Campers still coming, no session for 1000, planning to move 1045 session to 1030 & start the event.
1000: Almost everybody is done with the breakfast. Wandering around, planning for which sessions to attend.
1015: Welcome & brief intro by Hrishikesh. Good to see that crowd in Pune have started understanding barcamps & unconferences. They know what they are here for & what to expect.
1030: started the first session on 4th floor. Organizers still managing stuff on 4th floor & 7th floor. Kiran & Jatinder jotted down the whole storyboard & got printouts for every camper
1045: I got time to reach one of the sessions, sat for few minutes in TVguide.in by Rakesh Raju. Nice concept.
1050: Showed the first placard of "10 min left" to Rakesh, followed by "5 min left" & "time up". We learnt this from Tarun at BlogCamp. This really helps managing timing of sessions
1115: Same room, Aditya starting (although with few hiccups) on MS Silverlight. Good talk Aditya
1145: finished Aditya's session with "time up" & moved to 7th floor for some discussions
1245: People gathering @ 7th floor for lunch. PSPL canteen had arranged very nice food but pure veg :( There was a sign board sitting next to the sweet dish "One Helping Only". Funny, but don't worry, it’s a BarCamp & people know what they have to do.1330: One table full of BarCamp organizers. Atul, Anand, Jatinder, Anil, Harshal, Tarun, myself, Karthik, we are missing you Dibya! Nice time to decide future camps (I know we are yet to finish this one)
1400: Started a new thread in discussion room on 1st floor with Rohas Nagpal telling people about how to setup a tech company in US/UK/Singapore.
1402: The first announcement about ClubHack. Thank Atul for your loud voice to catch attention. We announced the next big event ClubHack & noticed that people were quite excited about the same.
1430: Waved "5 min" sign to Rohas & moved to 4th floor to announce ClubHack in other rooms
1445: All announcements done, now attending the session on LifeLogger by Anand. Andy you do such complex thing???
1515: I didn't wanted to show the time up thing to Anand as he was from my own team, but can't help it. Thanks to everyone no one got offended (hopefully) & managed the sessions properly.
1530: Same room attending session by Freeman on OpenSource Education. You are doing a great work Freeman.
1600: Snax time! I wonder why the tomato sauce was kept in such a big vessel, many people misunderstood it for soup :)
1630: Session on Firefox addons by Vinod. I tried learning this things many times :). Helpful session Vinod, but I’m not sure when I’d start writing my own addon
1715: All organizers gathered in lobby. Discussed how many track did they were able to attend. Hey look at this even I got chance to attend 5 and half sessions. I know it’s a big count when you are also in organizing team. Thanks to PSPL for such a nice arrangement.
1730: Another session about to start but not feeling like attending it. Started winding up stuffs
1800: Had to barge in last session and request Amit to end up his session on web2.0 powered by PHP. Sorry guys but need to finish of stuff in time.
1830: All organizers sitting in the beautiful lobby of PSPL relaxing after a successful day, 07/07/07 was really a good day for us.
1900: Packup & go!!! hope to see you all in next camp / ClubHack.
I know Atul & Anand will be moving to US soon, but I’m sure we'll get there assistance from remote. After all it’s a digital world.
