Bar camp Bangalore 6 - day1

This Bar Camp as always was fun, attended a lot of sessions and met many new people.

Lists of sessions attended :

  1. Blogathon meet - Met Ujjwal, Sandil, Meera, Sanjukta and many other people. Most of the discussion was around the concept of Blogathon, what we want to achieve from this, scope of topics, judging panel etc.
  2. Self Defense session (by Kashif) : It was a very interesting session, mostly dealt with what can you do if attacked by autorickshwalas, goons and other similar species. Kashif talked about weak point, how to get out of the circle, and running away (there was a session on that too).
  3. LifeInlines - Autobiography in lines : This was a new venture, but most of the people felt it is like twitter/pownce with extra level of privacy options. Some people did not like the idea of it as a closed system, but I think its in alpha and will definitely improve with time.
  4. RangDe.org : A micro lending site, really nice initiative by a couple. We need something like this in India.
  5. NgoPost : Another initiative to show case what NGOs are doing and how information can be shared. Most of the people were not impressed as it is just Pligg customized for NGOs.
  6. CommonFloor.com : I would like to say WOW here. An excellent effort by IIT Roorkee guys, its a kind of networking site but which makes perfect sense and has day to day use also.
  7. CIIE (By Aditi) : Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, an initiative by IIMA. It was nice informative session and now I know where to go when I want to have a startup.
  8. Session of Problems faced by Startups (by NSRcel and Kickstart) : It was an excellent session but I could not attend it completely. They talked about problems faced by startups in all fields (resources, IP, VCs…) and tried to come up with some solutions. It was the best session of the day. (Few might not agree who attended the ‘feedback’ session)
  9. Twitter-Up Bangalore : Best part of the day when all the Twitterists met for first time. One person defined it as ‘ a session to put handle to real persons from online identities’.

And Yes, I forgot the most important thing. Attraction for the day was Thej’s new ASUS EEE PC. It is really cool device, nice, small and cheap. I am sure this will open a complete new series of laptops in coming times.

Apart from this met a lot of new people and got some nice photography tips. Leaving for BarCamp now, day 2 details will surely be put up.

Links :

  1. BCB6 Photo Set
  2. Thej’s post and a video.
April 20, 2008 | Filed Under Events 

Comments

4 Responses to “Bar camp Bangalore 6 - day1”

  1. Thejesh GN on April 20th, 2008 5:05 pm

    Yes. Day 1 was good. How was day 2?

  2. Mohit on April 25th, 2008 11:51 am

    Barcamp this time was great. I had the chance of listening to some very good presentations including RangDe.org, CommonFloor.com and CIIE. All the best to the young startups.

  3. Ankur on May 6th, 2008 4:54 am

    Hey.. thanks for the li’l mention of LiL!

    Shall work on our communication better.. to talk a lil more about the philosophy behind the tool…

    Cheers!

  4. Parul Gupta on May 21st, 2008 6:39 am

    Thanks a lot for your feedback on NGO Post. The functionality up there presently is indeed basic pligg, but we are working hard on features to improve usability like geotagging, personalized recommendations etc, so stay tuned!

    At NGO Post, the focus is to have a social welfare community and the specific technology is a means, rather the other way round. As anyone who has tried to start an online community would know that engaging people is the trickier part and especially in our case, since part of the target audience (social workers, NGOs) is not very tech-savvy. Would love to hear thoughts on that .. please email me at parul -at- ngopost.org for it or if you’d like to get involved. Help us spread the word!

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