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BarCamp Kerala 8

Binny V A — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:15:23 +0000

We are holding BarCamp Kerala 8 on 28 March, 2010!. BarCamp Kerala is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

Not sure what a barcamp is?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event

Venue

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. So far we have 65 attendees.

Sessions

As of yet we have 6 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to BCK, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

BarCamp Kerala 6

Binny V A — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:45:01 +0000

Even though its not a tweetup, tomorrow’s(Oct 11^th 2009) BarCamp will have the greatest concentration of Twitter users in Kerala. Be there if you are in Cochin. Don’t know what a BarCamp is? Here is a description from BarCamp Kerala‘s official site…

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There are no registration fees or any charges for a barcamp as this is a user-generated conference. You are invited to volunteer for various activities for putting up a successful camp.

This time, we are holding the camp at Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology Campus. The camp starts at 10 AM and ends at 5 PM.

BarCamp Kerala is your best chance to meetup all the coolest techies from Kerala. If you are a techie of any scale, do make it to BarCampKerala!

If you are planning to monitor the event on twitter, just search for the #bck6 hashtag.

First Kerala Tweetup Report: Cochin Tweetup 1

Binny V A — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:40:35 +0000

The first Cochin Tweetup happened on 9^th March 2009 at Barista, Bay Pride Mall, Menaka. Live twitter update was done by the guys with mobile – @remzology, @maravind, @kg86. Until we get a place with a decent (and hopefully free) wifi connection, only mobile tweets will be available.

Planning

The tweetup was the brainchild of @kg86…

quite a few off days ahead, can we have a #kochi #cochin #tweetup ?

Kumar Gautam aka kg86

Soon many others from Cochin responded – and we decided on the date and venue. Barista, Bay Pride Mall at Menaka, Cochin was chosen because there was a possibility of getting WiFi there. Also, it was the default venue for Cochin Bloggers meetings.

Cochin Tweetup

Execution

I reached the venue at 5:05 PM. I did not notice any open laptops so I assumed that I was the first person to reach the venue. After a few more minutes, I noticed a guy behind me playing with his mobile – but still no groups. Still, I was not worried – we are in Indian Stretchable Time after all.

After another five minutes or so, I noticed that the guy behind me is still lonely – and still has not ordered anything. That’s when I began to suspect that he is here for the Tweetup. One problem of the internet is that you don’t know what the guys on the other side look like – you only know what their avatar looks like. And I assure you, the guy behind me did not look like this…

So I went over and asked him if he was here for the tweetup – turns out he is Rameez Nooruddin – aka remzology. When I saw him earlier, we was playing with the mobile – yup – updating twitter. And he didn’t recognize me because I was not wearing my glasses.

Soon people began to come. I am not sure about the order – but soon @sid88, @kg86, @adheeth, @maravind, @remzology, @ronyjacob and myself(@binnyva) were at the table.

Discussion

A overview of the stuff we talked about…

Arrest of 19-year old blogger for Orkut community against Shiva Sena
- Implications for Bloggers
- Comment Moderation in Blogs
- Need for EFF Wing in India
Mobile Browser
- stshark, bolt, ucweb, operamini, skyfire, fennec
Mobile OS
- Android vs Symbian
Name of our city – Kochi Vs Cochin Vs Ernakulam.
- Cochin was declared the winner.
- Ambiguity of Kochi
Films
- IMDB Top 205 List
Dvorak Keyboard Layout Demonstration by myself and Mahesh
Discussion on what to order
Cappuccino Test by ~~Adheeth~~ @sid88 on Adheeth‘s Cappuccino.

Did I miss out anything? If so, put that in the comments.

Pictures

Group Picture – From left to right…

@maravind‘s Artwork – Logo for Cochin Tweetup created in just half a minute.

Outcome

Everyone who attended enjoyed the meeting. We decided to do this once every month or so. And we thought that was the end of it.

But the responses in Twitter where more than what we anticipated – there where many calls to scale up the meets to a Kerala wide operation. Finally after a tweet from Arun Basil Lal, I decided to create a site to coordinate Tweetups in Kerala.

And thus TwitterKerala.com was born.