The Osmosis unconference is an experiment to bring the emergent & social conpcepts of unconferences, barcamps into the corporate mainstream.
Event details
| Date | Saturday 15th December 2007 |
| Time | Registration starts @ 9.00 am onwards. unconference sessions start @ 10.00 am |
| Location & Venue | MindTree Consulting Ltd. Global Village, RVCE Post, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059, Karnataka India. |
| Phone | +91-80-26264000. Contact Shahnawaz Khan (+91-98801-28701) for assistance in reaching to the venue |
| Landmark | MindTree West Campus is just before RV college on Mysore Road. |
What is Osmosis?
Osmosis is MindTree's annual technology festival -- the celebration of the nerd within all of us as we like to call it. It is MindTree's way of celebrating technology through showcasing achievements, through collaboration in form of discussions and various events & contests.
Osmosis, started in 2005, is into it's 3rd edition this year and has achieved great success in its first two editions in all aspects - scope, size, content quality, participation and excellence.
Osmosis runs for more than a quarter and consists of the following:
- Technical Paper Contest, weekly Community Quizzes, TechWorks Contest, Design Patterns Contest, Code War, Knowledge safai stalls put up by various communities, practices, verticals within MindTree.
- Invited talks/events where our partners & technology leaders come and share their knowledge with us.
- Student Paper Contest, where we reach out to more than 50 engg colleges, MBA colleges for paper wirting contests. This gives the undergraduate students an opportunity to exercise and improve technical, written and verbal communication skills
Osmosis culminates in a grand finale in December with Key Notes, Panel Discussions, Invited talks and CTO sessions.
What's different this year ?
This year Osmosis is being reinvented to make it it even more participtive & self organized. For example:
- Osmosis final day will be an ‘unconference’ where MindTree Minds will decide the topics to be discussed. In the true spirit of an unconference, MindTree Minds will decide, organize and lead the discussions on the final day of Osmosis.
- For the various contests of Osmosis, e.g. the paper writing contest, photograpgy contest etc. all MindTree Minds will be part of the evaluation process in addition to the formal evaltion. In past, the evaluation was only through a formal panel of experts.
- For the CTO session on the final day, MindTree Minds will provide inputs & suggest topics to the CTO’s
- There is an equavalent of Flickr, Blogger.com for MindTree Minds to share blogs, stories, pictures around Osmosis -- effectively turning them into Citizen Journalists.
- MAG (MindTree Artists Guild) conducts a photography contest every year as part of Osmosis. This year, the best photographs will be decided by MindTree Minds thorugh an internal equivalent of Flickr. These photgraphs would then be displayed at various locations in MindTree offices.
Open to external participation
Keeping in line with the inclusive, participative & self organized spirit of Osmosis 2007, MindTree has decided to open up participation in the Osmosis unconference to the vibrant unconference community in India. This will enable sharing, learning & cross pollination of ideas from the bright minds outside of MindTree and also spread the culture of 'unconferences', 'barcamps' to mainstream corporate India. This would aslo serve the purpose of sharing our experiences on how social & emergent concepts like unconferences can be weaved into the corporate culture and what adaptaion, if any, is required in the unconference concept to make it work within an organization.
Where
Osmosis unconference will be held at MindTree's West Campus in Bangalore, sprawled over a 140-acre lush setting. The address is:
MindTree Consulting Ltd. Global Village, RVCE Post, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059, Karnataka India.
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Schedule
Proposed Sessions
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Planners
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
Task List
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Tech
Wifi
Projector, White Boards
Photo
Video
Audio
Streaming or Stickam or Skype
Non-tech
Breakfast
Lunch
Coffee/Tea
Tables and chairs
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