BarCamp MUMBAI ~ Bindaas Geeks | Hackin' Over Vada Pav

BarCampMumbai is in the series of Barcamps being organized around the world. BarCampDelhi on 4th March was the first Barcamp in Asia and was a thumping success. BarCamp wave is sweeping entire India and providing geeks and like-minded folks a unique platform to interact, share thoughts and enrich each other.

BarCampChennai on 8th and 9th April, BarCampHyderabad on 8th April witnessed some cool discussion happening on technologies that make web 2.0 and next generation internet. They have proved to be the potential launch pad for some exciting products and services coming out of Indian brains.

BarCampBangalore on 22nd April rocked.

Action continues at BarCampMumbai on 13th May, followed by BarCampPune scheduled for last week of May.

Latest Developments

05-May-2006 BarCampMumbai gets its fourth sponsor - SANIsoft Technologies

03-May-2006 We have a venue!

03-May-2006 BarCampMumbai gets its third sponsor - Directi

30-Apr-2006 BarCampMumbai gets its second sponsor - Geodesic Information Systems

26-Apr-2006 BarCampMumbai gets its first sponsor - PerSquareYard.com

BarCampMumbai Sponsors

This wiki is a living document. Feel free to edit it!

From barcamp.org:

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.

-OR-

It is an interactive platform where all participants present, share, speak-up or at least be active listeners.

Details

When

Saturday, 13th May 2006 (Saturday)

Where

Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Powai

Mumbai

How to Reach IIT Bombay, the Venue (includes a map,taxi/train/bus instructions, etc.)

• Info With Map
• Very Recent Instructions and Rates - Without Map
• A Bit Old - Nice ASCII Map
• Map of IITB - KRESIT is block 37 on the map

Why?

An opportunity to share and learn about interesting ideas, opportunity to meet and share your ideas, services or products with like-minded individuals.

How?

Everything at a barcamp is impromptu, on the spot, unplanned. That's why they call it a "un-conference". That's why it is fun. Think of a barcamp as a kind of unplanned get-together by friends, with similar interests. Good stuff always comes out of such meets.

Barcamps aren't about intense gyan, indepth info, comprehensive knowledge. They are more about "hey, check out this cool stuff and what it can do". Talks aren't planned or scheduled before a barcamp - you go there, decide that you want to talk about something, write it on the whiteboard, pick a slot, and if people are interested in your topic, they sit in, discussions start, and so on.

In order to exceed expectations, you should start with low expectations. :)

What?

Literally - anything. But topics tend to be technology oriented, so if you are a geek, you should feel right at home.

Some proposed sessions

1. "The Web 2.0 Paradigm: Design Principles for Smart Companies" - Rahul Gaitonde
2. Mobile Applications: A FOSS Model - Shantanu Oak
3. Mobile Computing: Thinking beyond the PC - Atul Chitnis
4. How Bloggers Make Money -  Amit Agarwal
5. Web 2.0 Valuations -  Ajay Sanghani, ITVidya.com : IT Knowledge, Networking and Opportunities 
6. Creating Wealth on Blogging+Business Networks -  Ajay Sanghani, ITVidya.com : IT Knowledge, Networking and Opportunities 
7. Building RIAs with Flex and OpenLaszlo: my experiences - Nirav Mehta (Magnet)
8. The Common-ground Between Art and Technology: an artist's perspective -  Prayas Abhinav
9. ASP.NET seems to cripple traditional web programmers II - Vikas Yadav
10. TracBac - Design Collaboration Demo - Narain, 360 Degrees
11. Infinity Radio - Independent Music from India, on a FOSS platform - Kaustubh Srikanth and Shreyas Srinivasan
12. Your pictures on your website - A Focus on Coppermine Gallery and Pixelpost 2 popular FOSS projects Dr. Tarique Sani
13. Semantics BluesMoon

Evening Entertainment

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Khand I of The Jantar Mantar Projekt by DJ Fadereu (45 minutes). A TopLap performance. A hip hop hopera using Pure Data.

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To be a part of BarCampMumbai

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• Add your name to the list of participants.

• BarCampMumbai-IdeaPage
• How to add Your Name to the Wiki
• BarCampMumbai Sponsors
• BarCampMumbai Budget

Confirmed Participants

1. Mohit Pawar [mohit.ysp {at} gmail.com] Cell:+91-98491 54939
2. Murli [murli.rk{at}gmail.com] (0)98408 76099.
3. Rahul Gaitonde [rahul {at} rahulgaitonde.org] Cell:+91-98909 30670
4. Vineet Pabreja, Director Sulekha Classifieds, Yellowpages, PerSquareYard.com, 98400 77588, vineet(a)sulekha.net
5. Gopal Balaji [gbalaji@gmail.com] Cell:+91-(0) 9840224733, www.360in.com,Chennai, Podcasting and VideoCasting the event as done in BarCampChennai.
6. Hitesh Mehta# Hitesh Mehta [hiteshkmehta{at}gmail.com] (0)98840 28750.
7. Shantanu Oak [shantanu.oak {at} gmail.com]
8. Atul Chitnis
9. Amit Agarwal - Professional Blogger - [a.p.agarwal {at} gmail]
10. Dinesh Tantri - Collaboration Consultant,TCS
11. Siva Prasad 098666 52300 - shivp.wordpress.com
12. Shrikant Varma [shrikant.varma {at} gmail.com]
13. Jayanth
14. Ajay Sanghani Cell: 9820020753 [ajay (at) itvidya.com]
15. Vinu
16. Sunil Bhatia (sunilbhatia79 {at} gmail {dot} com)
17. Sathish K
18. Amey Samant ameyas7 (at) yahoo (dot) com Cell-: +91-9820458003
19. Navin Dhanuka .. [dhanukanavin@gmail.com] .. Cell: 9819616364
20. VeerChand Bothra
21. Bluesmoon
22. Spo0nman
23. Sumeet Mulani
24. Akshay Surve
25. Anupama Kamath Interaction Designer Infosys
26. Cray cray3x (at) gmail (dot) com
27. Sudarshan Sharma sudarshan_sharma22 (at) yahoo (dot) com Cell-: +91-9322304820
28. Nirav Mehta nirav (at) magnet-i (dot) com
29. Mitul Limbani mitul (at) enterux (dot) com : +91-9867333566
30. Sandeep Shetty
31. Vinay
32. Abhishek Thakkar thakkar (at) gmail (dot) com: 9324429255
33. Anand Kishore
34. Amit Bhawnani[amitbhawnani {at} gmail.com] Cell:+91-98210 98042
35. Kalpesh Patel [kalpeshptl {at} gmail.com]
36. Jigar Gosar
37. Arsalan Zaidi [arsalan.zaidi {at} gmail.com]
38. Vikas Yadav [vikas {at} thevikas.com]
39. Fadereu [fadereu {at} gmail.com] 98675 80501
40. Barkha Khatri (barkha dot khatri at gmail dot com)
41. Vaibhav Arya [vaibhav (at) megaeservices.com]
42. Bhavin Sanghani bhavin dot sanghani at gmail dot com
43. Gautam Karnik gautamkarnik75 (at) gmail (dot) com : 9819476400
44. Devdas Bhagat - geek.
45. Amit Bhowmik
46. Amit Naik : [amit.mail@gmail.com , 9820246022]
47. Lior 9820403331
48. Kaustubh Srikanth, Infinity Radio
49. Swapnil Kothalkar [swapnil0712@yahoo.com, 9819909366]
50. Pradeepto Bhattacharya pradeeptob at gmail dot com
51. Amit Goyal [goyal.amit (at) yahoo.co.in]
52. Manish Jethani
53. Peeyush Chomal, peeyush (dot) chomal (at) gmail (dot) com, 9869204229
54. Rushabh Shah, rushabh28 (at) gmail (dot) com, Cell: +91-9820075510
55. Shailesh Gopale, shailesh(dot)gopale(at) gmail (dot) com
56. Hasnain Mohamedali, hasnain (at) go2iwp (dot) com
57. Shreyas Srinivasan, Infinity Radio
58. Prajakt Deolasee : [prajakt@gmail.com , 9820808204]
59. Vinod Kumar : rigvinod (at) gmail (dot) com
60. Rahul Baji: rahul_baji(at)yahoo(dot)com
61. Sandhya Desai: sandhya (at) cdacmumbai (dot) in
62. Manu Bhardwaj, manub04 (at) iimb (dot) ernet (dot) in
63. Chandrasing: chandrasing (at) gmail (dot) com
64. Jayprasad Hegde: jjhegde (at) cdacmumbai (dot) in
65. Jinesh Mehta
66. Trilok Chandra: {trilok (dot) chandra (at) yahoo (dot) com}
67. Bhavin Turakhia [bhavin (dot) t (at) directi.com]
68. Anand Prakash [anand (dot) prakash (at) gmail.com]
69. Joel
70. Tarique Sani
71. Shalaka Verma
72. Swati Sani
73. Aasim Sani
74. Brajeshwar
75. Ashish Singh 98201***** (ashishdotkresitatgmaildotcom)
76. Rahul Gupta *****81891 (donotwantspamsonoemail)
77. Harshal Pradhan : hpradhan at gmail
78. Gautam Arora gautamsarora3 (at) gmail (dot) com
79. Hrishikesh Thite
80. Swapneel Sheth swapneelsheth (at) gmail (dot) com
81. Arun Vijayan arunvijayanatgmai1D0TC0M
82. Gaurav Chaturvedi (Tazz) / gaurav.p.chaturvedi(at) gmail (.) com
83. Shehzad Suchedina, shehzadali at hotmail dot com
84. Sumeet Shroff, sumeet (at) prateeksha (.) com

Facilitators

1. Mohit Pawar [mohit.ysp {at} gmail.com] Cell:+91-98491 54939
2. Murli [murli.rk{at}gmail.com] (0)98408 76099.
3. Kiruba Shankar, Kiruba(@)Kiruba.com, (0)98415 97744. I can help with experiences from organizing the BarCampChennai.
4. Narain, narain at gmail.com (0)98401 08007. Sharing barCampChennai experience and do a presentation
5. Hitesh Mehta, hiteshkmehta at gmail.com (0)98840 28750. Design of poster and other creative needs.
6. Ajay Sanghani, ajay at itvidya.com Cell: 98200 20753.
7. Atul Chitnis Remote Rocket Launcher

Bloggers

Did You Blog About BarCampMumbai – Add Your Name Here !

• Kiruba Shankar
• Mohit Pawar
• Dinesh Tantri
• Shantanu Oak
• Nirav Mehta
• Peeyush
• Vikas Yadav
• Hitesh Mehta

Tasks

• Finalize the Theme
• Design Logo
• Upload logo on the wiki
• Send first communication
• Design Posters (Poster design complete and will be uploaded soon)
• Finalize Venue
• Establish a clear budget
• Fixup snacks from KReSIT canteen
• Fixup meals with Gulmohar (probably on a pre-paid basis)
• Confirm net access details
• Confirm projector availability in each room
• Establish clear guidelines (checkin/checkout of equipment)
• Clear instructions on how to reach the venue, including a map, taxi/train/bus instructions, etc.

Discuss

• T-Shirts? (Do we have the time/budget?) Update: No T-Shirts
• Publicity? (Newspapers, blogs, media)- Started
• Volunteers? (People need people!)
• Proposed talks? (Just a rough indicative list would be fine)
• Entertainment? (where/when/what?)
• Contact people? (with cell phone numbers)
• Accommodation? (some people from out of town might need it)