First round of BarCamps in Indian tech centres are over!
The Pune edition of BarCamp happened last Saturday. And while it has not been covered extensively in the blogosphere, here are a bunch of posts, that capture some of the sessions rather well.
With the Pune event, BarCamps have covered the entire Tier I cities of software/IT hubs in India (Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai & Pune). It remains to be seen if the tech communities in TierII cities (like Chandigarh, Kolkatta, Lucknow etc) can muster enough enthusiasm to organise it in their cities.
In fact, Hyderabad is taking a lead and planning its second BarCamp in July, this time focussing specifically on the mobile space. Thats the way to go! Cheers to the Hyderabad BarCamp organisers…
At this juncture, I can’t help but laugh at our initial skepticim when we were planning for BarCampDelhi in March.
Sometimes in life, even your most optimistic estimates prove to be grossly undervalued.
3 comments
There is enormous for Barcamp Hyderabad 2. Lets see we are able to do crowd control.
Thx for linking though.
rajAT
though we are taking the mobile space as the guding light, the discussions need not necessarily be limited to them.
we hope this time we have more ungeeky discussions and some fun ones too! hopefully there will more variety and more life this time.
thanks for linking up!
KoPoS
Rajat, Kopos
I think your decision to focus BarcampHyderabad2 on a specific vertical is in the right direction.
The first edition of Barcamp in your city was about breaking the ice, exploring the concept of ‘unconference’ and getting together a basic group of enthusiasts in your city. Once that has happened, the second edition is suited better to actual experience sharing.
In fact, that was my hunch after the Delhi event and the Hyd example seems to bear this out.
rgds
amit
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