DelhiBarcamp2…another testimony to the success of unconferences

DelhiBarCamp2 happened last Saturday (9th Dec) and it was another testimony to the resounding success of the very concept of BarCamps. Truly, with so many of these unconferences happening with such an astonishing frequency across various cities in India, you can begin to sense the nucleation of a tech ecosystem with BarCamps at the core. Apart from the US from where it originated, the second largest number of BarCamps have happened in India.

Here are some tid-bits about the event –

- The event was attended by about 65-70 people, which is the same number as last BarCamp at Delhi. Overall there were some 15 sessions.

- The heartening thing to note was that there were lots of first time participants; also the representation from the developer community was much larger this time around.

- The venue was Impetus Infotech, which is a medium scale Indian software company; that’s an encouraging sign as well- the fact that such organizations are seeing a value in associating with unconferences. A sincere thanks to them for sponsoring the event.

- We had a presentation from a fairly senior level TCS person, so that’s great as well- the fact that the big Indian software services companies are beginning to turn up as well.

- Something that disappointed me was the pool of presenters; it did not expand as compared to the last edition. The sessions included multiple presentations from the same company (including my own), which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it would have been better if there was greater diversity amongst the presenters.

The quality of the presentations and the ensuing discussions was great- no complains on that front.

Here are some snaps from the event shared via SlideShare.

Here are all the BarCampDelhi2 presentations that have been uploaded to slideshare-

http://www.slideshare.net/tag/delhibarcamp2
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/barcampdelhi2

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