at barcamp bangalore 4 now... day 1 update


adios guys! more updates tmrw! :) going wid chennai TKF guys and other friends to booze place now maybe :D hic! the real barcamp starts there! ;)

5.55pm Tutorvista.com guy talking at internet room. we are leaving towards audi for feedback session..

5.40pm BCB4 day 1 almost coming to an end now! another half an hr and we meet in audi to take feedback and discuss abt tmrw. I think it went pretty well though it was very chaotic towards the mrng even for a barcamp veteran like me! :)

5.35pm L22: Helping a lot of guys get on wifi here! :) pretty strange considering I being a non-programmer helping techies connect to internet! strange are the ways of internet! ;)

5.25pm L22: at internet collective now. RouteGuru.com guys showing their website which I saw at proto.in last wknd too. Its "directions .. the good old way" through landmarks. Now only works in delhi but plan to extend to other cities.

5.20pm Behind audi: photo collective was awesome. got lot of gud tips from amog varsha, hari, jace and guys from the bangalore wknd shoots. we are gonna have a photo shoot (both SLR and Mobile) tmrw and gonna compare notes tmrw. Its gonna be more about content of the pic than the technology. Should be interesting :)

4.10pm Behind Audi: Another photo collective now. lets see wat jace and others got for us.

4pm L12: Deploying Ruby on Rails Application by Vivek Prahlad from ThoughtWorks.

3.57pm L12: Ganesh swears he loves ruby! ;) anyway gives to me a dvd of "13 tzameti" to see over the wknd - an interesting movie he says!

3.55pm L12: shocked to see Ganesh APP (Sagaro), initiator of RTFF in India sitting in ruby collective! :P Does his loyalties stand corrected now that he is in a corporate company? ;)

3.50pm L12: this room is now for ruby collective. angrez singh is talking about some intresting stuff. i'm in here mainly to charge the laptop. :)

3.40pm L corridors: Nice beautiful weather and having a cuppa kafi and blogging.. ah.. some simple pleasures of life! :)

3.35pm L corridors: Just opposite us Nandu is sitting with blogger AJ, getting a load down on blogging and how to get started. Tch tch i cudnt help her! ;)

3.30pm L Corridors: Photo collective happening here. We have guys like Amogh Varsha, Balaji, Thejesh, Lavanya here. Interesting stuff about apertures and reducing noise in the pic,etc.

3.15pm L Corridors: Had lunch with bloggers and food was almost over. :( we just had some sambar/rasam rice.

2pm L12: Mutiny.in and iBangalorean.com made their pitches too!

1.55pm L12: Did my pitch for LJ! :) and also showcased BRTFF! Good response hopefully people will check them out! :)

1.50pm L12: Stomach growling! :| Thejesh showing his site EventsBangalore.net.. publicity stunt! :P

1.40pm L12: anandboranc.googlepages.com - awesome mouse-art work. check it out guys.

1.30pm L12: back to bloggers. :) minekey guys are giving a demo on their widgets. saw their boss talk abt the product and pitching for vcs last wknd and now these guys are talking abt customizing the widget. they are doing all the right moves attending proto.in and bcb4. :)

1.25pm corridor: raining heavily out here! outside the corridors i mean! :) its lived upto the name of monsoon barcamp! came down here after getting bored in startups collective. its not as good compared to the crowd we saw at proto.in last wknd!

1.15pm L22: at startups collective now. there is someone who is talking about how first startups are not really abt ur passions. interesting stuff. let's see wat he talks abt.

1.12pm L22: windia.blogspot.com

1.10pm L12: minekey guy talking about widgets that you can use on your blog.

1.01pm L Corridor: manjula talking about EIR: Entreprship In Residence. Its a session about how to stay at home, get funded and work from home.

1pm L11: GPS Watch - a new application to use GPS available on mobile phones.

12.45pm L11: there is a talk in mobile collective about using ur phone nokia n series.

12.45pm Lobby: chatting away with regulars like sathish k, thejesh gn, balaji narayan, jace,etc.

12.40pm L12: back to blogger's collective. a bunch of foreign students are here to observe how barcamps work. pretty cute girls too. ;)

12.35pm L21: at internet collective now. talk is going on about web widgets. pretty packed crowd!

12.30pm L11: at mobile collective now. talk is going on about zook.in - a mobile search engine.

12.27pm L12: boohoo! t-shirts were taken away as this was not the way to give out t-shirts in barcamp.
t-shirt count: 0

12.25pm L12: AJ talking abt blogging platforms like LJ, wordpress, blogspot,etc.

12.17pm L12: chotha on sourceforge.net - new projects.

12.15pm L12: Mini-riot as "blogAreans" t-shirts were given out by minekey! i got my pound of flesh too! :)
t-shirt count: 1

12pm L12: just asked around to see how many are LJ users. Very poor response. Was shocked to see this. More popular are blogspot and wordpress. LJ needs to kick back itself to the top!

11.45am L12: sridhar rao starting his session on Technical jargaon for non-technical bloggers. i met him at podworks.in. shud be interesting talk specially for non-techies.

11.30am L12: blogging live from the "blogger's collective" at bcb4. lot of people here. hope we should have some good discussions here. lot of people facing problem connecting to wifi but i'm the lucky one! :) more updates coming up in the same post.. i will edit towards the top.

10am Audi: loads of people. 350 at the last count. nice collectives and lot of new comers - close to 200. nice SMS group service to keep us updated on the move. T-shirts are promised to be good and will be available tmrw.