We conducted the first barcamp in Kerala on Nov 24th and it created an interest among many in informal events. A few of my MBA friends conducted a management barcamp on Dec 16th. Some of my friends in colleges now wants to join the informal action. We were discussing about informal gatherings for the student community and my friend Hari came up with a name, “BarCamp Junior”. Now that sounds like a cool name for a cool...

The first Barcamp in Kerala was a great success with 70+ attendees. There were 9 really good sessions. Mobshare Opensocial app by Kenney Jacob (thats me) Simple game development in Ruby by Vishnu Gopal Bluetooth Home Automation Demo by Harikrishanan Introduction to Asterisk by Bipin Introduction to QT by Dhaneesh and Dev Computer Memory Based on Bacteriorhodopsin by Jidhu Open Network Project by Linoy Android by Renjith PHP Wiz...

Now we are having lucnch break. Before lunch break, we had 2 more sessions. Introduction to Asterisk by Bipin (works  with me in mobme) Introduction to QT by Dhaneesh and Dev. Asterisk is one cool software that we use in our company to power many of our voice services. Its a software pbx and is very much suited for small and medium businesses. QT is a programming framework. I works with many operating systems, but to me its major...

Just now I noticed an incoming activity on my wordpress dashboard. I visited the site and I was surprised to see a post about our first barcamp in Kerala there.  Check out the post here http://www.webyantra.net/2007/11/24/barcampkerela-todaysecond-tier-tech-centers-take-to-the-event/ As I am blogging live, I would like to thank everyone who came from far off places to attend the barcamp. People have really started to notice the...

The third session is over just now. It was a demo of a small prototype developed by Leads Technologies, a electronics device that can accept commands from a bluetooth remote or a bluetooth application that can run on mobile phones. Basically they have developed a bluetooth home automation system, where the remote is your mobile phone. The session was taken by Hari who is the operations manager at Leads. The session saw some real...

Two Sessions are over now. I was the one to begin, and I presented the opensocial app we developed for orkut. Its a simple application to show images from mobshare in orkut. I also talked about the concept of platforms and application. Check out my post. – A platform always beats an application. The next one was Vishnu with a cool game called N3TON.  It was developed completely in ruby using the gaming framework GUSO. It...