The Webbie

How would you define the experience of a kiddo engineer in his final year meeting people too a many, most of them placed well in the industry? That is what defines my experience at the BarCampMumbai2 last Sunday on 14th October, 2007.

It was to be held at IIT, Mumbai, a place of technical exotica.

I got to the place with Saumil on Saturday, 13th to volunteer for the event.

A few things were discussed. The banners were put up around the campus. An IRC Channel was setup. Will have to say the preparations were amazing.

Thanks to this, I got to meet some amazing people, viz. Abhishek Thakkar (have met him before though), Raxit Sheth, Aditya Mishra, Arpit Agarwal, Murli Ramkrishnan, Pooja Palan & Vaibhav Jha.

Finally, it was D-Day and I got there really charged up. I with my Somaiya mates and later joined by Pooja, put up directional arrows to geographically relocate people from the main gate to the precise venue. With roundabout 300 people present, the BarCamp had to be hectically awesome. And that is what it turned out to be. Due to 40 registered sessions on the online wiki, it was decided to be broken up into 4 threads.

The Introductory Session was taken up by Aditya, who made it highly interactive, like a BarCamp is meant to be. Experienced campers explained to the newbies what it was going to be like.

What followed was an innovative time slot allotment method. Campers interested in giving sessions put up their PostIts in their chosen time slots on the white board or Offline Wiki as it was called. Followed by that, everyone briefly explained their sessions.

And eventually the gun was triggered and the BarCamp begun.

Enough for now. I will follow this up with a continuation post.

BarCamp, Mumbai, IIT. Enough. I AM ATTENDING!!!!!!!

After the sad demise of our college’s barcamp that was supposed to happen whenever-i-dun-remember, Raxit Sheth has initiated this one (if I am not mistaken) and pulled in some of the BarCamp organisation honchos of West India, viz. Tarun Chandel & Abhishek Thakkar as organisers for BarCampMumbai2.

I just registered half an hour back for this to-be-extravaganza with a Nelson as my registration number and I desperately await this one. Another 12 days, and it shall be the beginning of an amazing experience for me and all other fellow campers.

By the way, have you registered yet? No?? Do it here: BarCampMumbai2