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BarCampChennai

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April 8th & 9th 2006 (Saturday & Sunday) Chennai

 

 

What is BarCamp?

 

BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. The BarCampChennai focusses on Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet.

 

Meet BARCamp, an open, welcoming, once-a-year event for geeks to camp out for a couple days with wifi and smash their brains together. It’s about love and geekery and having a focal point for great ideas, like FOOcamp but open.

 

The event will be free or very close to free. But there's a catch! Partipants are expected to contribute back to the conference by participating actively. "Active participation" might mean giving a presentation, helping with a presentation, blogging or podcasting the event, or whatever other creative ways to contribute people can come up with.

 

There is no audience. Only participants! This is unlike any conference you have been to before. It's new, it's different and it's going to happen in our city. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.

 

NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS

 

You can learn more about BarCamp here:

 

 

 

Videos

 

 

 

Photos

 

New York City BarCampNYC - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcn/tags/barcampnyc/

Los Angeles BarCampLA - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampla/

New Delhi BarCampDelhi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampdelhi/

Dallas BarCampDallas - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampdallas/

Austin, Texas - http://flickr.com/photos/whurleyvision/sets/72057594057285817/

 

 

 

What will be Discussed at the BarCamp?

 

The Next Generation Internet, Web 2.0, Ajax, Mobile Computing, Open Source and such.

 

 

Why?

 

To learn, meet people who share different interests, contribute, and push yourself and your thinking.

 

 

When?

 

8th and 9th April 2006. That's Saturday & Sunday. Yayy!

 

 

Where?

 

We have a choice between IIT Madras, Anna University and a few tech companies. We'll decide soon. We'll need a room that will seat atleast 100 folks. The room *must* have WiFi.

 

Confirmed Presentations

 

 

Participating? Awesome! Add yourself, your topic and your URL. Please be sure to include what you're presenting -- confirmed attendees should also give an idea of what they'd like to share with other campers.

 

 

Confirmed Participants

 

 

Attending the event? Great. Add yourself here.

 

 

Prospective Topics

 

Here's a list of topics proposed to help you make a decision. You can either pick from here or come up with your own topic. Freedom is yous.

 

  • My Computer Just Died... What About My Data?
  • Tagging and TagClouds
  • How to get Angel and VC funding for my new venture?
  • Web 2.0: How to reach out to India?
  • Mobile Computing - Will the Web be 'Mobiled'?
  • Mashups - What are they and how to do it?
  • Introduction to Flock - How it differs from Firefox and Mozilla.
  • Object Oriented Javascript, AJAX
  • From Idea to Code: Product Management Lite, pm for those who hate traditional paperwork
  • Scrum - Pragmatic Software Development)
  • UnConferencing for Normal People -- Taking the UnConference Mainstream.
  • Personal blog - Viral Internet Campaigns - What They Are & How To Use Them
  • 6 degrees of Cult Marketing & Branding
  • Women in Technology - How women are kicking arse
  • Social Networking - MySpace, YouTube, Technorati, Flickr, NewsVine - Web 2.0 Success Stories
  • How to help build a non-profit community website.
  • Web 2.0 without the Web — how the gap between new web applications and new desktop applications is shrinking.
  • How To Get Free Shit (Writing About Stuff That You Love and get paid for it)
  • Collaborative Authorship - How to do a colloborative project over the Net
  • Mac Mini as a Home Entertainment System
  • What you should know about PostgreSQL
  • MySQL vs. PostgreSQL holy war; bring weapons!
  • Approaches to listview & table design/functionality
  • Agile in the Real World: Wild Success, Terrible Failure, and Endless Yelling.
  • Enterprise Blogging: Tools and Tactics
  • Bootstrapping a software startup - From Scratch to Success
  • vDeveloping a parallel unofficial branch of an open source project
  • SEO techniques & Mastering Google AdWords
  • IRL: Using Virtual Commmunity tools to support real-world community-building
  • NewI\O and Dreadnought: The Application Browser
  • How Technology is changing the media ... and how media is affecting technology
  • Hacking Mac OS X, or, why you should all quit your dayjobs and learn Cocoa * * * * MetroNets, Community Portals, Social Networks, Web 2.0 apps
  • Open Source Trouble Ticketing
  • How to make great movies and videos
  • Big in Japan
  • Working with community, understanding blogging, blogging 101, community 101, that sort of thing
  • Use theatre games to explore social interaction and oppression in development
  • Quiz
  • What language? Should I sharpen my brackets or soften my tabs?
  • Microformats for design geeks
  • Microformats for coding geeks
  • How to start a startup, advice from VC's and others
  • Supporting open source causes
  • Innovating ways of consuming content (RSS, Atom, XML, etc.) and to use SSE for synchronization
  • Greasemonkey presentation
  • Alexa Web Search Platform brainstorming
  • New idea for OPML that could have a shift on the format if adopted by the masses
  • The state of the Linux Desktop
  • An introduction to managing linux data centers with openQRM
  • Anatomy of a Podcast: Case study of creating, maintaining and marketing a podcast
  • Extending traditional IVR (interactive voice response) to web 2.0 leveraging open source;
  • User Experience in Software
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Building a Web App in Javascript
  • Playing well with your SysAdmin
  • Media 2 economics
  • Building Scalable Distributed Web Apps
  • Open Source Databases in the Real World
  • Getting Things Done (GTD)
  • How to Create a Professional Podcast (from Start to Finish)
  • Tutorial on Memcached
  • Ruby on Rails Compared to PHP and Python Frameworks
  • Where is mobile media heading
  • Blogging as a Career
  • Desktop is Dead. Longlive Desktop
  • Web 2.0 - Changing dynamics of citizen journalism and published content
  • Distributed Collaborative Intelligence and the death of a Monopoly
  • Google 2.0 - What to expect, What is in and Where is it going
  • Data, Data, Data - Data mining & personalisation in Web 2.0 era

 

 

 

What I Would Like to Hear...

 

Got a request for a topic? Great. Here's where you put it in. Someone might be encouraged to pick this as their topic for discussion.

 

 

 

Latest News

 

 

 

 

 

Event Schedule

 

SATURDAY
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM Login
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Informal Inauguration
10:30 PM - 11:00 PM Introductions
11:00 PM - 1:00 PM Morning Presentations
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Presentations
4:00 PM - Till Whenever Socializing & Networking

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SUNDAY
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM Login
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Informal Inauguration
10:20 PM - 1:00 PM Morning Presentations
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Presentations
4:00 PM - Till Whenever Socializing & Networking

 

 

 

 

Who's talking about BarCampChennai

 

Have you blogged about BarCampChennai? Then add your link here.

 

 

 

Calling Live Bloggers, Photo Bloggers, Podcasters and Videocasters!

 

This will be an great opportunity for you. We'll make sure there'll be free WiFi. We'll give great spotlight for folks who plan to live blog, podcast or videocast the event. If you are, then enter your blog's URL below.

 

 

 

Bring Your Gears Along

 

A lot of folks are interested in doing live blogging, podcasting or video casting but don't have the tools. We ask you to help out by bringing the following stuff along so that you can share it with our fellow folks. It's an awesome spirit to share.

 

Things Needed

  • Video Cameras (Handy cams)
  • Digital Cameras
  • Voice Recording Devices (MP3 Players)
  • USB Drives

 

If you need anything else, add them to the above list.

 

 

Sponsors

 

  • Venue ( Awesome opportunity for tech companies )
  • Snacks, Lunch and Refreshments
  • Giveaways

 

More needed. Pls add to the list if you think we need something important.

 

Have something you can donate? Want to chip in? Great! Let us know at Kiruba at Kiruba.com or call 98415 97744

 

 

Tag the Event - Use the Code

 

For Technorati - BarCampChennai

For Flickr - BarCampChennai

For del.icio.us - BarCampChennai

 

Tag us and spread the buzz!

 

Facilitators

 

 

Volunteers welcome. Please email Kiruba at Kiruba.com or plain simple just add your name here and start helping out in your own small way. Check the bottom of this page for 'Things To Do' and see where you can chip in.

 

 

Things To Do

 

The beauty of this unconference is to involve all in the organizing. The beauty lies in group collaboration.

 

Ok, here's stuff that we need to get done.

  • List down Help Committees. Give areas where folks who want to help can contribute.

  • Start work on the press release for the event*

  • Create a press release. Media might be interested in covering the event. It's unique and newsy.

  • List out the things that needed for the event (eg. name tags, chart papers, marker pens, extention boxes etc )

  • Design a nice looking poster.

  • Set up a Google Groups for organizers.

  • Set up a paypal account through which folks can contribute money to help.

  • A new wiki page for 'Ideas' to be set up

  • Create logos in different sizes and put them on an exclusive wiki page.

  • Put the dates on the Wikisite.

  • Create a budget page where all expenses are shared transparently. This way the sponsors will know how their money has been spent. Oh! Does that mean we will now have to open a new bank account? Hmm..

 

  • Identify a venue. Should seat atleast 100. Have WiFi. Preferably in a tech company.

 

  • Encourage bloggers to spread the word

 

  • Write a kickarse proposal for prospective sponsors.

 

  • Create separate wiki pages which has detailed information on tips for presenters, documentors and moderators. Also need a detailed page on how to get in sponsors.

 

  • A small music event would be nice. If one of the participants can sing or play the guitar that would be a welcome distraction from the techie stuff.

 

  • What about folks who aren't in Chennai but are keen to follow the events virtually? How do we cater to such folks? Any ideas?

 

  • Create a video montage explaining what a BarCamp is.

 

  • Create a nice big banner as a backdrop for the stage.

 

  • Make a list of top level invitees. Big names do add prestige to the event.

 

  • Create a nice navigation system that stiches together all the pages together (eg. ideas, sponsors, logos to the home site)

 

  • Create more logos and banners. Something like this

 

 

  • Create a new page that has more information on the campers. Photo, designation email, phone numbers etc. This will help folks know who's coming along and help in better networking at the event.

 

  • Prepare an invitation email to be sent out to folks. See Foo invitation.

 

  • Write to Hyderabad barcamp organizers and check if we can do a connect between both the camps. Maybe a video conference or a telephonic talk between the members.

 

  • Make a virtual white board where timetable is put up so that folks can fill in the slots that are convenient to them. Check what Austin has done.

 

 

 

I Want to Help

 

Cool! Just start pitching in. No need to take any permission or stuff like that. This is collective colloboration at its best. And best of all, its in the interest of tech community and the spirit of sharing and learning. Add your name to the particpatnts list above. It might also help to shoot out an email to Kiruba@Kiruba.com or call 98415 97744. And, most important of all spread the word about BarCampChennai on your blogs or email your techie friends. Every little help counts.

 

 

I Have a Question. Who do I Ask?

 

Just put your questions here and they'll get answered.

 

Q: whats the time limit for each topic and number of topics allowed per person?

A : One session per person. 20 minutes duration or less.

 

Q: Can I donate money through PayPal?

A: Yes, you can. Ganesh of Rupya.com has helped set up an account. Please click on this link http://barcampchennai.rupya.com

 

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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