March 9th, 2008 — BarCamp
Anand started an interesting viral thing to promote blogcamp Kerala. Its called MeMe. The basic idea is to link up the bloggers that I know. Those bloggers will link up their friend blogs. Anand started with his post
http://www.theanand.com/blog/index.php/just-ripples/blog-camp-in-kerala/
Now, the event that we are planning. Its a bloggers meet in Kerala, Gods own Country. Its going to be a huge event, some time in June.
http://barcamp.org/blogcampkerala
http://groups.google.com/group/blogcampkerala
More details are here. Please join the wiki and lets plan this event to be a huge one.
Here is the list of the bloggers that I know personally.
Sajith MR
Sanil S
Anoop Alias
Nikhil S
Shoban
Binny VA
Jaleel Jalaludeen
Mani Karthik
Sarath DR
Right now I can only recollect these fellows. So do create a post like this and link up the bloggers you know.
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February 28th, 2008 — BarCamp, Education
Post by - Kenney Jacob and Padma Sathyamurthy
LiveMint Coverage
Innovation need not be ground breaking
iCamp (23 February, Bangalore): Innovation Camp (iCamp) was held on Saturday in Bangalore. More than 80 people attended the day-long event, which was hosted by MindTree Consulting Ltd. The idea of the camp was to share individual experiences and opinions about innovation in different contexts in the unstructured way that a BarCamp permits.
The talks ranged from the basic “What is innovation?” to ones connecting humanitarianism and spirituality to innovation. A session on innovation in MBA education sparked off discussions on how this idea can be scaled to introduce innovation at all levels of education. While many of the subjects revolved around IT, a number of examples were drawn from non-IT fields as well—not just technology products, but say, traffic jams in Bangalore, and how innovation is needed to address the problem.
Another topic was whether one can be taught to innovate, or a framework be developed in which every person can innovate. Views differed, but everyone agreed that to commercialize innovations, structured processes help. Innovation need not be groundbreaking or disruptive, even finding a shorter route to the office can be called an innovation.
One speaker even innovated with his talk on “Innovative ideas to manage relationships”. He did not have any ideas on the subject, but made use of the collective intelligence of the audience and their experiences to come up with theories.
The day concluded with Knowledge Café, a round table discussion over coffee, jalebis and samosas on “Does process help or hurt innovation?” A majority of the campers felt that process is required, but it should be without restrictions.
A few photos from the Icamp
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February 20th, 2008 — BarCamp
I am infected with the unconference virus. I am attending and conducting unconferences. And every announcement of a new unconference excites me, no matter whether its related to technology or not. My recent interest is in the Filmcamp.
The moment I got to know about FilmCamps, I went to their website and called up Sanjay Nambiar who organizes the event. I wanted to invite him to Kerala for conducting a camp in Kerala. But he has already planned his next camp in Cochin.
Now my unusual interest in unconferences of all sorts made me thinking. If you take a look at the unconferences happening in bangalore, chennai etc, you can see that there are many common attendees, no matter what the theme of the event is.
Now are they attending this because they want to learn, or are they attending this only because of the networking opportunity that unconferences give. ?
Right now I am also thinking about my take away from unconferences. Am I really that interested in all these sessions happening at all these unconferences ??? Or am I trying to escape from my laptop, infront of which I spend 18hrs a day.
Whats is your takeaway ? Is it knowledge or is it the social life ?
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February 18th, 2008 — BarCamp
“Blogcamp in Kerala !!!!!!!! Seriously. ”
This is the response I got from many when I talked to them about conducting a blogcamp in Kerala. Kerala, the Gods own Country produces the best people. But there is a small problem. None of them are here. They all go out of state and out of the country to work. No wonder the world is progressing very fast and we are slow to catch up. All our best brains are outside.. na.
We did 3 barcamps in Kerala in a time span of 4 months. One of the camps was a management barcamp for the MBA students. They really loved the concept of being totally informal about their totally formal subjects. All the three were zero budget events, attended only by fully motivated people. Still we managed to get a crowd of 80 for all the 3 events.
The students in Kerala are also catching up to the fever of unconferences. They are organizing half day events called Junior barcamps, which are venues for students to present their stuff with their peers.
Now its time for us to do a larger event. A blogCamp. An event with presence of bloggers from all over the country. If you want to be a part of organsing this join this group.
http://groups.google.com/group/blogcampkerala
Join the wiki at - http://barcamp.org/blogcampkerala
Blogging from Gods Own Country - Kenney 
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February 3rd, 2008 — BarCamp
I am very proud to announce that BarCamp Kerala 2 was a grand success. I am saying grand success because of 2 things that happened today at the BarCamp.
Renjith, the COO of Armia systems was very much impressed and he promised to sponsor the next Barcamp in Infopark, and that too with Lunch.
The usual Lunch syndrome didnt take many people away. Only a very few people left after the lunch. The rest stayed back until the whole session got over.
Check out the photos here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kenney.jacob/BarcampCochinCUSAT
Please comment your suggestion to make the next barcamp better. All sorts of ideas are welcome.
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