What Is It?
BarCamp is an "unconference" - organized by attendees, for attendees. It's an open, welcoming event for geeks to hang out with wifi and smash their brains together. It's about love and geekery and having a focal point for great ideas.
Attendees are strongly encouraged to give a demo, a session, or help with one. You can help by taking notes on the wiki, blogging the event, helping to promote the event, or helping with logistics.
This wiki is a living document. Feel free to edit it! Tutorial on wiki editing here
Interested? Join the mailing list!
NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS
Other BarCamps in India: BarCampDelhi, BarCampChennai, BarCampHyderabad
When
(To be decided. Tentatively last week of April.)
Where
(To be decided. Should be able to host 100-150 people, preferably with multiple small rooms for parallel sessions. Should preferably be centrally located with easy access to restaurants, coffee shops, etc. Must have wifi.)
Hey! Riya.com offices in Bangalore would be willing to donate our offices (TaraHunt - I'm in California, but will probably be visiting. Drop me an email horsepigcow at gmail dot com.
What (Theme)
(To be decided. Suggestions?)
Keywords:
What do you want this BarCamp to be all about? Add keywords below.
- web 2.0
- rich internet applications
- tagging
- mashups
- mobile computing
- video on the web
- software as a service
- experience design
- podcasting
- The Next Big Thing (TM)
- Mobile social software
- Data analysis
- Interfacing with people outside IT.
- Simulating Complexity
- Mashups in the Enterprise
- Wireless
- Cryptography/Data Encryption
- Photography
- Economics (vague, I know, but yeah, whatever)
- Linguistics
Planners
Were you at the planners' meet on Saturday? Please add your name below if you're involved in planning this event.
Campers
Please add your name to this list if you plan on coming. If we run out of space, then campers who have added their name to the wiki will have priority.
- Muthu - eXperience Designer, Sun Microsystems - muthuonline at gmail
- Kaustubh Srikanth (houndbee) - Information Architect - kaustubh at houndbee dot com
- Kiruba Shankar, Associate Director, Sulekha.com, 98415 97744, Kiruba@Kiruba.com - I can help with experiences from organizing the BarCampChennai
- Sathish K - sathish.k at gmail
- Jessica P - something @ Yahoo! Bangalore.
- Amit Pande - User Experience Manager, Oracle, Bangalore.
- Anita Bora - Communications professional, Bangalore.
- Pradyumna Sampath (Prady) - Programmer @ ABB Corp Research, Bangalore.
- Raj Shekhar (lunatech) - Expert Slacker at Yahoo!
- Pankaj Kaushal (spo0nman) - Script Wrangler at Yahoo!
- Pete Deemer - Chief Product Officer, Yahoo, Bangalore
- Shreyas Srinivasan (shres) - Gnome developer, Bangalore
- Kiran Jonnalagadda (jace) - Digital nomad, Bangalore
- Sreejith Unnikrishnan - UI Developer, Bangalore
- Ramakrishna Reddy (ramkrsna) - Engineer, Red Hat, Bangalore
- Vinayak Hegde (segphault) - Engineer, Akamai, Bangalore
- Devdas Bhagat - geek
- Anil K G - AI specialist, automotive control software designer, Bangalore
- Abhishek Nayani - Couch Potato, Bangalore
- Manish Jethani (mannu) - Engineer, Flex Framework & SDK, Adobe Systems
- Rajan Helping coordinate Barcamp Hyderabad, can add my two bits here.
- Nishant Shah - Cybercultural consultant, Researcher
- Tejas Dinkar (gja) - Python Enthusiast
- Atul Chitnis (toolz) - Tech enthusiast
- Anuj Khurana - Thumbspeed, Mumbai.
- Param - UCD specialist, GE Healthcare, Bangalore.
- codeShepherd - Engineer, SpikeSource, Bangalore.
- Arun Ramarathnam - Enthusiast, Bangalore.
- TaraHunt - of Riya.com and HorsePigCow
- Zeeshan Nofil - Photographer, Bangalore.
- Srikanth Thunga - Developer
- Prasant, Interaction Designer, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore
- Jnaneshwar Das - Robotics enthusiast
- Vijay Kumar - OpenOffice Enthusiast, SpikeSource, Bangalore.
- Ruchi - Podcaster, Bangalore - ruchi.mg at gmail
- Dev - CEO, Strapp Business Solutions, Bangalore - mdev05 at yahoo
- Arul Prasad - Flash Developer, Symphony Services Corporation, Bangalore - arulprasad at gmail dot com
- Mekin Maheshwari - Data researcher at Yahoo
- Arpit Agarwal - Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd. - arpit105 at yahoo dot com
- Rajiv Poddar - Wireless Dreamer! - rajiv_poddar at yahoo.com
- Aditya Kumar - Software Engineer, Bangalore - aditya2507 at yahoo dot co dot in
- Premshree Pillai (KingDiamond) - Troglodyte (apparently), Yahoo! Bangalore
- Siddharth Vijayakrishnan - Cubicle dweller turned student
- Bhushan - Does something interesting sometimes! @ Yahoo
- Kalyan Varma - Wildlife Photographer, Naturalist and Semi-geek
(Login and add your name...)
NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS
Proposed Sessions
Add your topic to the list. One session per person. The duration of each session will be roughly 15-30 minutes, depending upon factors like the number of people signing up, the total number of attendees, the venue, and so on.
- Scripting the Web With JavaScript and Flash (Manish Jethani)
- Technosociality and its discontents : Cyborgs, cities and cyberspaces (Nishant Shah)
- Beyond the PC - Mobile computing (Atul Chitnis)
- Lessons in community management from the Bangalore LiveJournal community (Jace, with assistance from Nishant)
- Mobile social software- attempts at building mobile focussed communities 1ClickBlog
- The Art of Scrum – A revolutionary new approach to building cool products in a world of change (and still get home in time for supper)(Pete Deemer)
- OLPC - One Laptop Per Child, The $100 linux based laptop,OLPC (Ramakrishna Reddy)
- The system administration stack - Think beyond a single box. (Devdas Bhagat)
- Fun with GNU Linux by codeShepherd ( To refresh in case you get bored )
- Open Source Flash development tools - FAMES and likes. (Arul Prasad)
- Next Generation Desktops: Applications, Trends and Coolness. (Shreyas Srinivasan)
- Open Source GSM: A basic implementation of the GSM Stack on Blackfin (Rajiv Poddar)
Have you blogged about BarCampBangalore? Then add your link here.
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FAQ
Just put your questions here and they'll get answered.
Q: What's the time limit for each topic and number of topics allowed per person?
A : One session per person. 20 minutes duration or less.
Q: I don't have a laptop. Will there be PCs with net connection?
A: I don't think there will be PCs to be used. However, a few folks with laptops will be willing to let you use theirs for a while. Should come in handy for checking mails or updating your blog.
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