Spirit of BarCampBangalore

Yes, it was not a conference, but a get together (or unconference by definition). More then that it was a platform for communication, idea exchange, a platform for knowing each other. I was really excited and motivated after attending the Bangalore BarCamp. Bangalore BarCamp unconference included lot of interactive sessions. Ya nearly 25 sessions. As expected when i reached yahoo office at 9.00am there where quite a large people who have showed up for the event. All where excited about being a part of this movement. There where some people who have come down to Bangalore just to organize or attend the camp. Some had even attended the recently concluded BarCamp at Delhi/Hyderabad/Chennai. But most of us where new and first timers. One interesting thing about the unconference anyone who attended would have noticed was the names of the unconference rooms : narangi, Toddy, Arrack, Fenni, Santra (upholding the BarCamp spirit). I wanted to mention some of the interesting sessions at BarCamp Bangalore which i could attend.

- Pete from yahoo on agile development model SCRUM
- Tara Hunt from Riya.com on Pinko Marketing
- Arun and Arjun on their new startup TAAZZA.com
- Jai Fichialos on junk prototyping for UI design
- Chris Messina ( barcamp starter) on Microformats
- Prashant on web 2.0 development modeling
- Shreyes on independent music in india

also other sessions i attended where on podshala, Amazon web API's and one on Adobe flex programming.

The best presentation was of pete on SCRUM and most crowd pulling was of Taazza (http://www.taazza.com) and the session which shreyas gave on spot about independent music ( http://infinityradio.info).

Remains of BarcampBangalore are here :
Photos :
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Reviews :
Anita bora's blog
Alex muse's blog
Tara Hunt's review
Amit Ranjan's blog
Rajan's rambling

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