March 8th & 9th 2006 (Saturday & Sunday) Chennai
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 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 March 2006. That's Saturday & Sunday. Yayy!
Where?
We are still looking. We'll need a room that will seat atleast 100 folks. The room *must* have WiFi. Preferably, a tech company that can host us.
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.
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Event Schedule
| SATURDAY | |
| 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM | Check-In |
| 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 | Check-In |
| 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 |
Presentation Schedule
Will be announced soon.
Links to be added as the word gets out.
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?
- Mashups - What are they and how to do it?
- Introduction to Flock - How it differs from Firefox and Mozilla.
- 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
- vDeveloping a parallel unofficial branch of an open source project
- CiviCRM: CMS agnostic, open source constitutent relationship management for nonprofits and civic groups.
- SEO techniques & Mastering Google AdWords
- IRL: Using Virtual Commmunity tools to support real-world community-building, and vice versa
- NewI\O and Dreadnought: The Application Browser
- 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
- MPEG2 hardware encoding and streaming on a budget (How to make weird 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
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.
Confirmed Participants and What They're Presenting
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.
People Interested, But Not Yet Sure What They'll be Sharing
Yet to decide on a topic? No sweat. Add yourself here. You can come back later when you have firmed up on your topic.
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 name 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 Needed
- Venue ( Awesome opportunity for tech companies )
- Snacks, Lunch and Refreshments
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
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Tag us and spread the buzz!
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.
- Identify a venue. Should seat atleast 100. Have WiFi. Preferably in a tech company.
- Form Help Committees. Give areas where folks who want to help can contribute.
- Encourage blogger to spread the word
- Start work on the press release for the event*
Write a kickarse proposal for prospective sponsors. 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.
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.Set up a paypal account through which folks can contribute money to help.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.
- A new wiki page for 'Ideas' to be set up
- Create logos in different sizes and put them on an exclusive wiki page.
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.
- Put the dates on the Wikisite.
Make a list of top level invitees. Big names do add prestige to the event.
There are lots of ideas brewing at BarCampChennaiIdeas . Check that out.
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. And, most important of all spread the word about BarCampChennai on your blogs or email your techie friends. Every little help counts.
