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BarCampChennai

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

 

Latest Developments

 

22nd March - Video conference testing with Hyderabad Barcamp Organizers at 10:00 PM

- Economic Times Interview on Barcamps.

- Link to info on Easy steps to edit this wiki' prodvided

21st March - DNA Newspaper Interview on Barcamps.

- Reminder mails sent to participants on filling their full information - Mahendran Bala

- Banner Design started - Ravi

- Plan for food started - Ravi

20th March - Wiki clean up.

19th March - 2nd Organizers meet at Pizza Corner

 

Organizers, please update the work status here

 

 

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What is Barcamp?

Confirmed Presentations

Confirmed Participants

Prospective Topics

Tips for Presenters

Ideas for Improvement

Folks Who Blogged About This Event

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Facilitators

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I Want to Help

I Have a Question. Whom do I ask?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is BarCamp?

 

BarCamp is an unconference 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, Social Media and Next Generation Internet.

 

BARCamp is 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.

 

Note: The topics to be presented are platform independent and company independent.

If you are interested in a new topic, feel free to add them here.

 

 

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.

 

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Confirmed Presentations

 

  1. Building Brand 2.0 on Web - Dina Mehta - http://www.DinaMehta.com
  2. Web 2.0 and demo of TracBac - Narain - http://www.360in.com
  3. Unconferencing the Conference: The Making of Barcamp - Kiruba Shankar - http://www.Kiruba.com
  4. Blogging as a career -Amit Agarwal -ProBlogger
  5. Ruby on Rails: The Un-Hype - Vamsee Krishna Kanakala - http://www.viamentis.com
  6. Project InfraNET: India's Future Depends on IT - Vijay Anand
  7. Corporate Blogging and Wiki Usage - Toufeeq and Natarajan - Infosys Technologies Ltd
  8. MindCanvas- Reimagine what online user research can be ..Amit Ranjan - Uzanto
  9. Atlas - Ajax in .net - Aswin Anand T H
  10. Taazza - Desh,Videsh,Sandesh - Arjun Ram
  11. Podcasts: On the brink of a new media revolution - Sujatha Jagannathan - Podbazaar
  12. VoiceSnap - Simplifying Voice Mailing System - Ganesh, Director, Voice Snap Software Limited, ganesh@voicesnap.net, 98404 65375 http://www.VoiceSnap.com

 

Participating? Awesome! Add yourself, your topic and your URL. Please be sure to include what you're presenting.

 

Want to know how to add yourself? Need help editing this wiki? Here's an easy to understand tutorial.

 

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Confirmed Participants

 

  1. Suresh Ramasubramanian, Coordinator, APCAUCE
  2. Adel Anwar, Head-Biz Dev, Transindia, adel@adelanwar.com
  3. Ganesh S, Verizon, Ganesh@rupya.com, 98408 49125
  4. Ganesh APP Ph: 42018237
  5. Kunal Kumar D Jain
  6. Dina Mehta- Head, Explore Research & Consultancy, Mumbai
  7. Kiruba Shankar, Associate Director, Sulekha.com, kiruba@kiruba.com 98415 97744
  8. Amit Agarwal, ProBlogger, Delhi
  9. Narain, CEO, 360 Degree Interactive, narain@360in.com +91 98401 08007
  10. Nagendra, Technical Architect, INXS, nagendra.cl@acm.org
  11. Ravi Kumar, Senior Graphic Designer, Quintegra Solutions, enter@itsravi.com, 98412 77223
  12. Sujani , Director, F5ive Technologies, sujani@f5ive.com
  13. Srinivasan, Web 2.0 enthusiast, Infosys
  14. Krishna Kumar, Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies
  15. Venkat Rangan, Co-Founder, INXS Asia, venkat@INXSAsia.com
  16. Vijay Anand, Technological Entrepreneur, IIT Madras
  17. PN Senthil
  18. Udayan Banerjee, NIIT Technologies
  19. Eswaran N, NIIT Technologies
  20. Abhinav Goyal, Web/Internet/Telecom 2.0 Enthusiast, Stealth-mode IMS Startup, abhinavgoyal@computer.org
  21. K.Shyam, shyamk@gmail.com, Bangalore
  22. Bhasker Kode , Super-Moderator - TechEnclave.com, Entrepreneur .
  23. Toufeeq Hussain, toufeeqh@gmail.com
  24. Muthu Online - eXperience Designer, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore.
  25. Prashanth Rai, prashanth.rai@gmail.com, Chennai.
  26. Aswin Anand T H, aswinanand {at} gmail {dot} com, Chennai.
  27. Shivonline, rtshiva @ gmail . com, Chennai.
  28. Raj Bala, raj_bala@yahoo.com, Atlanta, GA USA
  29. Sathish K, k.sathish@gmail.com, Bangalore.
  30. Jayanth B, jayanth.bagare@hotmail.com, Bangalore, India
  31. Sushil Kumar, sushil.cool@gmail.com , Bangalore , India.
  32. Sylvester Vijay, 28239727
  33. Sujatha Jagannathan, Co-Founder, Podbazaar.com, sujatha@podbazaar.com, California, USA
  34. Sudar, Sudar@SudarMuthu.com, Web 2.0 enthusiast, Cognizant Tech Solutions, Chennai
  35. Ram H. Viswanathan, rviswanathan at gmail.com, Next Generation Internet / Networks enthusiast, Midas Communication Technologies, Chennai
  36. Ranga Rangarajan, Software Engineer, CollabNet, rangar@collab.net
  37. Kartik Kannan, Channel Manager-Blogs, Sulekha.com, 98400 40068
  38. Balakumar Muthu, Crazy Passionate Technologist, http://i5bala.blogspot.com, balakumar.muthu@gmail.com, 9941189227
  39. Arvind Natarajan, Market Analyst/Blogger, Zoho.com, 9840708418
  40. DSM.Ranjith Kumar, Zoho.com, 98407 87678
  41. Saravanan Palanisamy, saravanan.palanisamy@gmail.com, Bangalore
  42. Srinivasan N R, srinivasan.raguraman@gmail.com, Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard (HP), Chennai
  43. Hitesh Mehta, Design Head, Bharathmatrimony.com, idealeyedeas@yahoo.com, 98840 28750
  44. Amit Ranjan- Head, Uzanto's Delhi office and BarCampDelhi organizer.
  45. Alexander Thomas, Software Engineer, CollabNet, alexander@collab.net
  46. Karthik Kiruba, syskarthik@yahoo.com, Wipro Technologies, Chennai.
  47. Badrinath.V.S, Technology Enthusiast/Blogger, 98409 62551
  48. Arjun Ram, mail@arjunram.com, Founder, Taazza Inc, Michigan, USA
  49. Vasant Viswanathan, Accenture
  50. Nimish Adani, Project Consultant, BharartMatrimony.com, nimish.adani@gmail.com,
  51. Karthic R, karthik_r@sifycorp.com, Quality Analyst, Sify Ltd., Chennai
  52. Duraimurugan D, markdurai@gmail.com, Consultant, Mark Consultancy, Chennai
  53. Kiruthik N Kumar, me@kiruthik.com, 99940 49398
  54. Rohitmohan- 98844 36007
  55. Ananthakrishnan G, Technical Writer, CollabNet - akrishnan.g@gmail.com, 94440 36449
  56. Ganesh - Director, Voice Snap Software Limited, ganesh@voicesnap.net, 98404 65375
  57. DEEPAK, it.deepak @ gmail . com, Final Year IT,Chennai.
  58. Vineet Pabreja, Director, Sulekha.com , vineet@sulekha.net 98400 77588
  59. Fenzik Joseph, fenzik(at)cuproxy.com, Cueproxy, Chennai, 98400 34680.
  60. ChitraPandian N, chitrapandian(at)yahoo.com, Chennai. 98400 38765.
  61. Thanga Lakshmi T, Software Engineer , Chennai , tt_lakshmi(at)yahoo.com
  62. Madan U.S, Software Engineer, CollabNet, madan@collab.net
  63. Suman Karumuri, http://mansu.livejournal.com
  64. Saloni Malhotra, TeNeT, IIT Madras salont(at)tenet.res.in
  65. Vikas Bagri, TeNeT, IIT Madras vikas(at)tenet.res.in
  66. Bharath Rajkumar TR, IT Consultant, tr1bharathrk(at)yahoo(dot)com

 

Attending the event? Great. Add yourself here

 

Need help editing this wiki? Here's an easy to understand tutorial.

 

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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

 

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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.

 

 

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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

 

 

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**Who's talking about BarCampChennai

 

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

 

  1. BARCAMPS BARCAMPS - Vijay Anand
  2. Announcing BarCampChennai - Kiruba
  3. Spread BarCamps - Chris Messina
  4. BarCamp in Chennai - Ganesh APP
  5. Barcamp Chennai - Vinayak Mahadevan
  6. Chennai Barcamp - Intro - Ganesh
  7. Barcamps in Chennai and Hyderabad - Kaps, Desipundit.com
  8. FAQ on Barcamp Chennai- Srivatsan
  9. Barcamps in Chennai and Hyderabad- Amit Ranjan
  10. 20 Minutes in Houston - Robert Scoble mentions Chennai Barcamp
  11. The Spirit of Barcamps- Kiruba
  12. BarCamp Chennai is happening!- Gaurav Bhatnagar
  13. Barcamp @ Chennai- Shivku
  14. Bar-Camp- K.Shyam
  15. BarCampChennai - Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet - Dina Mehta
  16. BarCamp in Chennai - Muthu
  17. BarCampChennai - April 8&9 - Come,Geek and Rock! - Narain
  18. BaRCaMp in Chennai !! :) - Balakumar Muthu
  19. BarCamp phenomenon hits India , from Techenclave Forums
  20. BarCamp Chennai - Jayanth Bagare
  21. BarCampChennai - VentureWoods
  22. BarCampChennai - Toufeeq Hussain
  23. BarCamp at Chennai - Srinivasan R
  24. BarCamp Chennai- Sunder Iyer
  25. BarCampChennai - Narain @ ITVidya.com
  26. -பார் கேம்ப் சென்னை  - Narain
  27. Barcamp - Rakesh Ashok
  28. BARCAMP CHENNAI - Heading Strong! - Vijay Anand
  29. Barcamp Chennai - Anita Bora
  30. Barcamp Chennai - K.Sathish
  31. BarCamp Chennai - Aswin Anand T.H.
  32. BarCamp Chennai is around the corner - Ram Chaitanya K N ( LApstrE )
  33. BarCamp Chennai and Hyderabad - Ashish Kumar
  34. BarCamp Austin Photos - Scott Beale
  35. Conference With a Difference - DECCAN CHRONICLE Newspaper
  36. Decccan Chronicle Covers BarCampChennai- Kiruba
  37. Added as Ryze Event-Narain
  38. Added to Chennai Events in Sulekha - Kiruba
  39. Barcamp Chennai - Ranjith Kumar Diraviyam
  40. Barcamp Bangalore - Rajiv Poddar
  41. Barcamp Chennai - Andy

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

  1. http://www.Kiruba.com
  2. http://DinaMehta.com
  3. http://rlnarain.blogspot.com
  4. http://labnol.blogspot.com
  5. http://www.ChennaiBlog.com
  6. http://bothack.wordpress.com
  7. http://AbhinavGoyal.blogspot.com
  8. http://www.MuthuOnline.com
  9. http://shyamk.blogspot.com
  10. http://www.adelanwar.com
  11. http://www.bosky101.blogspot.com
  12. http://aswinanand.blogspot.com
  13. http://www.amitranjan.com

 

 

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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

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