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BarCampChennai
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April 8th & 9th 2006 (Saturday & Sunday) Chennai
Latest Developments
22nd March - Sponsorship of Rs.10,000 by 360 Degree Interactive
- 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.
- Sponsorship of Rs.15,000 by PodBazaar.com
- 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
11th March - Sponsorship of Rs.5000 by Rupya.com
Organizers, please update the work status here
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What is Barcamp?
Confirmed Presentations
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Prospective Topics
Tips for Presenters
Ideas for Improvement
Folks Who Blogged About This Event
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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
- Building Brand 2.0 on Web - Dina Mehta - http://www.DinaMehta.com
- Web 2.0 and demo of TracBac - Narain - http://www.360in.com
- Unconferencing the Conference: The Making of Barcamp - Kiruba Shankar - http://www.Kiruba.com
- Blogging as a career -Amit Agarwal -ProBlogger
- Ruby on Rails: The Un-Hype - Vamsee Krishna Kanakala - http://www.viamentis.com
- Project InfraNET: India's Future Depends on IT - Vijay Anand
- Corporate Blogging and Wiki Usage - Toufeeq and Natarajan - Infosys Technologies Ltd
- MindCanvas- Reimagine what online user research can be ..Amit Ranjan - Uzanto
- Atlas - Ajax in .net - Aswin Anand T H
- Taazza - Desh,Videsh,Sandesh - Arjun Ram
- Podcasts: On the brink of a new media revolution - Sujatha Jagannathan - Podbazaar
- VoiceSnap - Simplifying Voice Mailing System - Ganesh, Director, Voice Snap Software Limited, ganesh@voicesnap.net, 98404 65375 http://www.VoiceSnap.com
- Rich Internet Applications and Flex - Ramanarayanan K, rkrishnaiyer AT yahoo DOT com - http://labs.macromedia.com/flexproductline
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
- Suresh Ramasubramanian, Coordinator, APCAUCE
- Adel Anwar, Head-Biz Dev, Transindia, adel@adelanwar.com
- Ganesh S, Verizon, Ganesh@rupya.com, 98408 49125
- Ganesh APP Ph: 42018237
- Kunal Kumar D Jain
- Dina Mehta- Head, Explore Research & Consultancy, Mumbai
- Kiruba Shankar, Associate Director, Sulekha.com, kiruba@kiruba.com 98415 97744
- Amit Agarwal, ProBlogger, Delhi
- Narain, CEO, 360 Degree Interactive, narain@360in.com +91 98401 08007
- Nagendra, Technical Architect, INXS, nagendra.cl@acm.org
- Ravi Kumar, Senior Graphic Designer, Quintegra Solutions, enter@itsravi.com, 98412 77223
- Sujani , Director, F5ive Technologies, sujani@f5ive.com
- Srinivasan, Web 2.0 enthusiast, Infosys
- Krishna Kumar, Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies
- Venkat Rangan, Co-Founder, INXS Asia, venkat@INXSAsia.com
- Vijay Anand, Technological Entrepreneur, IIT Madras
- PN Senthil
- Udayan Banerjee, NIIT Technologies
- Eswaran N, NIIT Technologies
- Abhinav Goyal, Web/Internet/Telecom 2.0 Enthusiast, Stealth-mode IMS Startup, abhinavgoyal@computer.org
- K.Shyam, shyamk@gmail.com, Bangalore
- Bhasker Kode , Super-Moderator - TechEnclave.com, Entrepreneur .
- Toufeeq Hussain, toufeeqh@gmail.com
- Muthu Online - eXperience Designer, Sun Microsystems, Bangalore.
- Prashanth Rai, prashanth.rai@gmail.com, Chennai.
- Aswin Anand T H, aswinanand {at} gmail {dot} com, Chennai.
- Shivonline, rtshiva @ gmail . com, Chennai.
- Raj Bala, raj_bala@yahoo.com, Atlanta, GA USA
- Sathish K, k.sathish@gmail.com, Bangalore.
- Jayanth B, jayanth.bagare@hotmail.com, Bangalore, India
- Sushil Kumar, sushil.cool@gmail.com , Bangalore , India.
- Sylvester Vijay, 28239727
- Sujatha Jagannathan, Co-Founder, Podbazaar.com, sujatha@podbazaar.com, California, USA
- Sudar, Sudar(at) SudarMuthu.com, Web 2.0 enthusiast, Cognizant Tech Solutions, Chennai
- Ram H. Viswanathan, rviswanathan at gmail.com, Next Generation Internet / Networks enthusiast, Midas Communication Technologies, Chennai
- Ranga Rangarajan, Software Engineer, CollabNet, rangar@collab.net
- Kartik Kannan, Channel Manager-Blogs, Sulekha.com, 98400 40068
- Balakumar Muthu, Crazy Passionate Technologist, http://i5bala.blogspot.com, balakumar.muthu@gmail.com, 9941189227
- Arvind Natarajan, Market Analyst/Blogger, Zoho.com, 9840708418
- DSM.Ranjith Kumar, Zoho.com, 98407 87678
- R.Sriram. Zoho.com,9840708492
- Charles Adaikkalam. Zoho.com, 9840708382
- Saravanan Palanisamy, saravanan.palanisamy@gmail.com, Bangalore
- Srinivasan N R, srinivasan.raguraman@gmail.com, Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard (HP), Chennai
- Hitesh Mehta, Design Head, Bharathmatrimony.com, idealeyedeas@yahoo.com, 98840 28750
- Amit Ranjan- Head, Uzanto's Delhi office and BarCampDelhi organizer.
- Alexander Thomas, Software Engineer, CollabNet, alexander@collab.net
- Karthik Kiruba, syskarthik@yahoo.com, Wipro Technologies, Chennai.
- Badrinath.V.S, Technology Enthusiast/Blogger, 98409 62551
- Arjun Ram, mail@arjunram.com, Founder, Taazza Inc, Michigan, USA
- Vasant Viswanathan, Accenture
- Nimish Adani, Project Consultant, BharartMatrimony.com, nimish.adani@gmail.com,
- Karthic R, karthik_r@sifycorp.com, Quality Analyst, Sify Ltd., Chennai
- Duraimurugan D, markdurai@gmail.com, Consultant, Mark Consultancy, Chennai
- Kiruthik N Kumar, me@kiruthik.com, 99940 49398
- Rohitmohan- 98844 36007
- Ananthakrishnan G, Technical Writer, CollabNet - akrishnan.g@gmail.com, 94440 36449
- Ganesh - Director, Voice Snap Software Limited, ganesh@voicesnap.net, 98404 65375
- DEEPAK, it.deepak @ gmail . com, Final Year IT,Chennai.
- Vineet Pabreja, Director, Sulekha.com , vineet@sulekha.net 98400 77588
- Fenzik Joseph, fenzik(at)cuproxy.com, Cueproxy, Chennai, 98400 34680.
- ChitraPandian N, chitrapandian(at)yahoo.com, Chennai. 98400 38765.
- ThangaLakshmi T, Software Engineer , Chennai , tt_lakshmi(at)yahoo.com
- Aruna Ramani D, Software Engineer , Chennai , arunaramani@yahoo.co.in
- Gayathri V, Software Engineer , Chennai , gayathrivenkateswaran(at)yahoo.co.in
- Madan U.S, Software Engineer, CollabNet, madan@collab.net
- Suman Karumuri, http://mansu.livejournal.com
- Saloni Malhotra, TeNeT, IIT Madras salont(at)tenet.res.in
- Vikas Bagri, TeNeT, IIT Madras vikas(at)tenet.res.in
- Bharath Rajkumar TR, IT Consultant, tr1bharathrk(at)yahoo(dot)com
- Bhuvaneswaran A, bhuvan at ubuntu dot com
- Ramanarayanan K, rkrishnaiyer 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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Have you blogged about BarCampChennai? Then add your link here.
- BARCAMPS BARCAMPS - Vijay Anand
- Announcing BarCampChennai - Kiruba
- Spread BarCamps - Chris Messina
- BarCamp in Chennai - Ganesh APP
- Barcamp Chennai - Vinayak Mahadevan
- Chennai Barcamp - Intro - Ganesh
- Barcamps in Chennai and Hyderabad - Kaps, Desipundit.com
- FAQ on Barcamp Chennai- Srivatsan
- Barcamps in Chennai and Hyderabad- Amit Ranjan
- 20 Minutes in Houston - Robert Scoble mentions Chennai Barcamp
- The Spirit of Barcamps- Kiruba
- BarCamp Chennai is happening!- Gaurav Bhatnagar
- Barcamp @ Chennai- Shivku
- Bar-Camp- K.Shyam
- BarCampChennai - Web 2.0 and Next Generation Internet - Dina Mehta
- BarCamp in Chennai - Muthu
- BarCampChennai - April 8&9 - Come,Geek and Rock! - Narain
- BaRCaMp in Chennai !! :) - Balakumar Muthu
- BarCamp phenomenon hits India , from Techenclave Forums
- BarCamp Chennai - Jayanth Bagare
- BarCampChennai - VentureWoods
- BarCampChennai - Toufeeq Hussain
- BarCamp at Chennai - Srinivasan R
- BarCamp Chennai- Sunder Iyer
- BarCampChennai - Narain @ ITVidya.com
- -பார் கேம்ப் சென்னை - Narain
- Barcamp - Rakesh Ashok
- BARCAMP CHENNAI - Heading Strong! - Vijay Anand
- Barcamp Chennai - Anita Bora
- Barcamp Chennai - K.Sathish
- BarCamp Chennai - Aswin Anand T.H.
- BarCamp Chennai is around the corner - Ram Chaitanya K N ( LApstrE )
- BarCamp Chennai and Hyderabad - Ashish Kumar
- BarCamp Austin Photos - Scott Beale
- Conference With a Difference - DECCAN CHRONICLE Newspaper
- Decccan Chronicle Covers BarCampChennai- Kiruba
- Added as Ryze Event-Narain
- Added to Chennai Events in Sulekha - Kiruba
- Barcamp Chennai - Ranjith Kumar Diraviyam
- Barcamp Bangalore - Rajiv Poddar
- Barcamp Chennai - Andy
- Barcamp Hits Chennai - Sudar
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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.
- http://www.Kiruba.com
- http://DinaMehta.com
- http://rlnarain.blogspot.com
- http://labnol.blogspot.com
- http://www.ChennaiBlog.com
- http://bothack.wordpress.com
- http://AbhinavGoyal.blogspot.com
- http://www.MuthuOnline.com
- http://shyamk.blogspot.com
- http://www.adelanwar.com
- http://www.bosky101.blogspot.com
- http://aswinanand.blogspot.com
- 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.
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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!
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Facilitators
- Ravi Kumar, Senior Graphic Designer, Quintegra Solutions http://www.itsravi.com 98412 77223 - Design Works (stage banners), Food Co-ordination
- Vijay Anand, Technological Entrepreneur, vijay@leadstep.com, 9894101373, Blog: Technological Musings - Venue, Stage and Equipment preparation/requirement Co-ordination
- Hitesh Mehta, Design Head, Bharat Matrimony Group 98840 28750 - Creative Needs (Posters, nametags)
- Ganesh S rupya.com, 98408 49125, rupya.com - The Financier and Official Photographer - "Sounds cool doesn't it"
- Adel Anwar, Head-Biz Dev,Transindia - media + apparel, icons & Directions design.
- Sujatha & Sriram, Co-founders, PodBazaar.com - Podcasts and Videocasts
- Mahendran Balan, eServe - Coax participants into putting their presentation titles and their complete information on the wiki.
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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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.
- 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. - Aswin is working on this
- Have a Criccer game( A cross between cricket and soccer)on Sunday morning. That would be awesome. [still considering this? - YES]
- Add simple tips on how to add yourself to this wiki. Simple and easy steps.
Send guidelines to presenters.
- Send reminders to all those registered participants to update their topic.
- For folks who are based out of chennai and who can't make it to the event, they can video record their presentation and we can host it up on YouTube and link it from this Wiki. This way they have a sense of participation.
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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.
Q: How do I add myself to the lists mentioned in this page?
A: You have to login to edit this page and add yourself to the required list. Click here to login. Edit this page.
The links are also available at the top of this page.
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