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BarCampTechfest|Student Level
"Techfest 2004, IIT Bombay's annual technology festival, is mounted on a scale that will make many global corporate events blush. The fact that it's being organized by students is perhaps the only thing that makes it a campus fest"
- The Telegraph, Kolkata.
Been quite some time since we attended those "Democratic lectures"
something like
For the attendees
By the attendees and
Of the attendees
So for all those who are passionate about Startups and related eco-system, Web 2.0, Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Mobile Technology, iPhone, OpenSocial, Facebook Applications, Android, Service Oriented Architecture, Mash-ups, Semantic Web, Open Source Technology or Open Standards, programming in general or about any other technology...Techfest 08 presents
But WHAT IS BARCAMP?? 00ps...!!
BarCamp Techfest an Un-Conference !!! and nothing related with the bar; you might think!
A place where we all get together and discuss / rack / brain-storm / share opinions about Web technologies & trends, Mobile computing, Hacking, Blogging, Vlogs, Social Media, ... everything about the Technology that interests us.
Born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment this is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction with NO FORMALITIES into it ...
EVENT
When?
Techfest 2008 Day 3 i.e. 27th of JanuarySunday
Timings ----9:30 AM onwards.
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Where?
KRESIT
Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay
Powai,
Mumbai.
How to register?
This page is a Wiki page, which can be edited by anyone.
So, you can just edit this page and do the following:
Add your name to the Campers' list. This is the complete list of attendees
Add a session to the Proposed Sessions list. In case you would like to give a session on some topic
Suggest a topic to the Discussion Topics. Some of these topics will be discussed after all the sessions are over
Suggest what we can provide you with, apart from what we are already providing.
Instructions to do the above:
At the top of this page you will find a link called "Edit Page"
Click it and enter your Name and e-mail address
The universal password is c4mp
After you submit, you will be able to edit the text you are reading right now.
You need to find out the list you want to add your name to and then do the needful
Dont forget...whichever list you add your name to, you have to add your name to the Camper's List for sure
The Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), one of Asia's largest FOSS conferences.
Jon "maddog" Hall
The Executive Director of Linux International. (do i need to say anything else !!!)
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Proposed Sessions
Sessions are 20-30minutes in length (including five to ten minutes for questions), so prepare your slides accordingly.
S No
Topic
Presenter
LInk
email id /fone no
1.
Content Management Systems Overview
Abhishek Nagaraj
I'm not sure if I'm coming to techfest. If I turn up - I'll definitely speak
abhishek dot nagaraj at sun dot com
2.
Opensource Indic Transliteration and more.
Raxit Sheth
raxit at mykavita.com
3.
Introduction to Long Tail Strategy and Some recent Case Studies.
Memory Stick/thumb drive (if you have one: for transfering presentations, demo code, etc)
Ideas and demos.
If you have TShirts, corporate pens,Trial softwares, free accounts (for the cool service you just launched) etc that you want to share, this is probably a good place.
CDs / DVDs of GNU/Linux distros if you would like to give them away or if you have the latest versions
If you have questions or experience problems, please report them to the BarCamp support forum. For issues related to this wiki, please see the PBWiki Support Forum.
