RiseCamp

When: Saturday, April 11, 2009

Where: Mumbai

Location: To be identified

 

About RiseCamp

RiseCamp is a meeting of thinkers, doers, dreamers, activists, rebels - but most importantly optimists - discussing, debating, plotting and coming up with new ideas that could help shape a new direction for India and for the Indians living in it.

 

RiseCamp hopes to identify the right avenues for the ordinary citizens of India who would like to contribute and work towards improving the social, civic and political situation in our country. RiseCamp will be a platform for people who have already devoted their life to challenging the status quo. RiseCamp would like to be an umbrella under which diverse groups and organisations come together, share ideas, learn and channel their energies towards solving the big problems that our country faces today.

 

 

Risecamp is an open- ended forum, unlike many others where you need to pay or know people to attend. It is not a political front, or a citizen action group, or an NGO. There are two key aspects of Risecamp.

 

1. It is a forum for new ideas towards bringing social, political or civic change in India

2. It is a platform for organisations, individuals and groups who are implementing their ideas

 

Although many people in India might feel that it is time for action, we still feel the need for debate, discussion and more importantly an avenue where any ordinary citizen of India can come forward and suggest a different way of doing things. The key here is to make sure that we successfully align the people with new ideas to the group of people already implementing ideas. Risecamp can help in this process. This is what we see as the USP of Risecamp

 

RiseCamp is based on the Barcamp concept, which basically refers to an open-ended, collaborative un-conference, where people come together and decide upon the topics that they would like to talk about, hear and discuss, rather than have it force fed to you.  For those who want to know more about Barcamp, please visit the following links: 

 

• What is BarCamp?
• What to expect at a BarCamp
• The Rules of BarCamp 

 

For those who are new to the whole concept of BarCamp's this website is editable, which in technical terms is known as a wiki. Am sure you have heard of wikipedia, it is based on the same concept. Anyone can register at the link given below. It is simple and straightforward.

 

New Wiki Registration

 

After registering you can edit this page (look for 'Edit' tab on the top of this page next to 'View'), add content, even delete content if you feel like. Don't forget to 'Save' after you have edited. The Save button is at the bottom of this page.

 

Thats where this becomes a community organized, collaborative conference. You will notice that there are places on this website where you can add your name, volunteer for tasks, add topics, suggest guests etc.

 

We really encourage you to do that and become as much a part of it, as we are!

 

Links

• http://risecamp.in
• http://groups.google.com/group/risecamp

 

Sponsors

If you are a potential sponsor, we need you!

 

Potential Tracks

- The Need for a New Kind of Politics in India

- Educational Reform

- Harnessing Technology and Design for Social Development

- Internet and Activism

- Social Harmony

- Security and Terrorism

- The Role of Architecture and Urban Planning in Emerging India

- Social Entrepreneurship in the Indian Context

- ....

Please add what you think might be relevant!

 

Topics

Add your ideas in this section.

To add your name, click on 'Edit Page' button placed on top of this page. In Edit view, go to Top section and add your name in the list. To add a row left click in a particular row and insert row .

 

Sr No	Topic	Name
1.	Cerebrate Conversations: Community-led Interviews on the Web	Aditya Kaul

 

Participants

Add your name here. To add your name, click on 'Edit Page' button placed on top of this page. In Edit view, go to Top section and add your name in the list. To add a row left click in a particular row and insert row .

 

Please leave your email, its very important for us to get in touch with you! If you are worried about privacy concerns please send a personal email to adityakaul@gmail.com

 

 

Sr No	Your Name	Mail Id	Blog/Website	About Me
1	Werner Egipsy Souza	hephail@gmail.com	http://hephail.blogspot.com	Mobile Freak, Biking Freak and Food Freak
2	Manish Malik	dotmanish at gmail	-	Contributor to a tech business
3	Rahul R		http://parivartana.org	Citizen Of India
4	Vivek Khandelwal	kvivek05@gmail.com	http://roomno368.blogspot.com	Student at IIT Mumbai, Destined to be a chemist by profession,who happens to love writing and LAW ,is experimenting around the Web for the moment
5	Neeraj Pattath	pattath.neeraj@gmail.com	http://neerajpattath.net	system administrator + barcamper + blogger + twitter bug + security researcher + blogcamper + amateur photographer + webmaster + amateur podcaster + addicted gamer + rebel
6	Tanuj More	tanuj.more@gmail.com	-	An aspiring entrepreneur
7	Akshay Surve	akshay@socialsync.org	http://blog.socialsync.org,  http://akshaysurve.com	Founder at SocialSync.org and an avid camper :) > more

 

Un-organisers

Add your name here. Please leave your email, its very important for us to get in touch with you! If you are worried about privacy concerns please send a personal email to adityakaul@gmail.com

  

Sr No	Your Name	Mail Id	Blog address	About Me
1	Aditya Kaul	adityakaul@gmail.com	http://kaulout.wordpress.com	Wireless Technology Analyst, Blogger, Abrupt Dream Chaser
2	Manish Malik	dotmanish at gmail	-	Contributor to a tech business
3	Neeraj Pattath	pattath.neeraj@gmail.com	http://neerajpattath.net	system administrator + barcamper + blogger + twitter bug + security researcher + blogcamper + amateur photographer + webmaster + amateur podcaster + addicted gamer + rebel
4	Akshay Surve	akshay@socialsync.org	http://blog.socialsync.org,  http://akshaysurve.com	Founder at SocialSync.org and an avid camper :) > more

 

Who Would You Like to Hear?

Please recommend a person who you are thoroughly impressed with and whom you really want to hear him/her speak. We will send out a special invite and do our best to get them to the event. Thanks.

1. Rahul Bose
2. Nitin Das - Independent Filmmaker
3. Nandita Das
4. Nandan Nilekani
5. Ramesh Ramanathan - Janagraha
6. RV Krishnan - General Secretary, Professionals Party of India
7. M.P Ranjan - Design Guru, NID Faculty
8. Vijay Mahajan - BASIX (Microfinance)
9. Gerson Da Cunha - AGNI, Bombay First
10. Arvind Adarkar - Architect and Urban Planner
11. Anjali Mohan - Habitat Forum
12. Sanjay Puri - Architect
13. Purnima McCutcheon - Fellow, Architecture for Humanity
14. Aamir Khan
15. Shabana Azmi
16. Abdul Kalaam 

 

Need more names! Please add them to the list

 

Also if you happen to know someone who knows someone else, who is actually pals with any of the people on the list, please do give us a shout!

 

Things To Do. Can You Help?

Please add any other tasks that needs to be done. If you want to pick up a task (we love you!), please put your name and phone number next to it.

 

1. Design a Logo
2. Design a poster
3. Might need a tag line?
4. Find venue and freeze the date - Date frozen as April 11, 2009
5. Find sponsors for food and snacks.
6. Design a backdrop
7. Buy RiseCamp.in domain name - Manish / dotmanish (gtalk)  Done - Risecamp.in fwds to this page
8. Get server space for website - Manish / dotmanish (gtalk) Done
9. Prepare a press release
10. Design small web buttons for blogs that says 'I'm speaking at RiseCamp' and 'I'm attending RiseCamp'
11. IT Tasks (WiFi, presentation equipment, mics etc)
12. Send mailers to Barcamp, OCC, Proto.in and other mailing lists.
13. Identify traditional media (newspapers, TV, press) channels of promoting RiseCamp.
14. Add the event to Barcamp.org main page schedule and upcoming.yahoo.com
15. Create Facebook Event - Done
16. Create mailing list / group - Aditya / adityakaul (gtalk)
17. Special Invites - Draft invite and manage list of special invites

 

If there are any more tasks to be done, add them here.

 

 

Contact

For any questions please contact Aditya Kaul at adityakaul@gmail.com 

 

 

What Are People Saying About RiseCamp?

 

People's reactions from blogphere, twitter world and the Press. If you have written about RiseCamp, please add the link here. Please tag your tweets/blog posts/photos/videos related to RiseCamp with the tag RiseCamp so that it will be helpful for people searching for information regarding the event.

 

Tweets

Kiruba: Love @adityakaul 's idea of organizing a barcamp kind of event around activism and social awakening 

 

Blog Posts

Kaulout: RiseCamp Mumbai - March 2009

Parivartana: Risecamp

 

Press Coverage