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. (directions/map below) |
| Phone | +91-80-26264000. Contact Shahnawaz Khan (+91-98801-28701) for assistance in reaching to the venue |
| Landmark | MindTree’s West Campus is located to the left of Mysore Road just before RVCE Engineering College |
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 Safari 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 Engineering colleges, MBA institutes for paper writing 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 mid-December with Key Notes, Panel Discussions, Invited talks and CTO sessions.
You can find more details about Osmosis here:
Osmosis 2007
Osmosis 2006
Osmosis 2005
What's different this year ?
This year Osmosis is being reinvented to make it it even more participative & self organized. For example:
- Osmosis final day will be an ‘unconference’ where participants 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, photography contest etc. all MindTree Minds are part of the evaluation process and have a say in selecting the winners in addition to the formal evaluation. In past, the evaluation was only through a formal panel of experts. This year, MindTree Minds can rate & evaluate the papers, photograpgs, TechWorks on the same parameters as the formal panel of experts. The ratings from the open evaluation and formal evaluation will be collated to decide the winners of the various contests.
- For the CTO session on the final day, MindTree Minds will provide inputs & suggest topics to the CTO’s, and the CTO session will be in form of a discussion & debate rather than a uni-directional CTO talk.
- Equivalent of Flickr, Blogger platforms have been created for MindTree Minds to share blogs, stories, pictures around Osmosis, capturing the unfolding of Osmosis through their eyes, as they see it -- effectively providing eac
