After a long wait of about 2 years, Pune had its 2nd edition of blogcamp. The success of barcamp pune 5 as a freecamp” encouraged the (un)organisers to have the 2nd edition of Blogcamp in pune without sponsership, i.e another freecamp. The camp again turned out to be successful with a good turnout. There was a lot of participation by the non-technical bloggers.
The venue for the Blogcamp was SICSR (My college). The best thing about it is that Mr. Harshad Gune, (a professor at SICSR) is very very cooperative.
The preparation of the Blogcamp Pune 2 had started about a month back. It began with the deciding of the final dates. The mailing list helped us a lot in communicating with each other.. Its almost unbelievable that email communication would help us so much in organizing things.
I was involved in designing the logo, probably liked by quite a good number. It really feels good when the work done is appreciated by people.
The Final Logo for the BlogCamp Pune 2
The event started just like the other unconferences with an introduction by the attendees and unorganisers. The sessions were divided into 2 parallel threads.
The event was very thought provoking and also involved speakers who were totally from a non-technical background. We got a lot of ideas about “what the blog could be made popular”, “How the blog can generate revenue for us” etc, etc. It was also a good medium to grow our contacts. By doing so, I came to know a lot of people from pune as well as from Mumbai, eventually becoming friends.
The event was also followed by a lot of enjoyment like having snacks and tea at Navin and Meetu’s place with a lot of new friends from Mumbai, followed by a party at the Corianthian club. We missed u a lot Tarun, Ankesh and Abhishekh.
Overall, Blogcamppune 2 was a great experience.
Joomla! Day in Pune : being organized on the 25th of April, 2009 that is tomorrow. This is going to be the first Joomla! Day in India. It will bring forth an experience unlike any other — providing opportunity to network with Joomla core developers, members, and users for inspiration, and participate in the development of Joomla community. At the Joomla! Day, you shall meet the innovators and world-class developers behind today’s most successful cms.This day’s proceedings have been carefully crafted with a brief introductory session by a member from JUG Pune. The event has been rounded off with featured presentations from renowned experts, to give you fresh perspectives and new insights on the Joomla! framework and the extensive use of Joomla! in website construction.
The event will be held at the I2IT campus in Hinjewadi, the software hub of Pune. To know more about the venue, schedule, guests and the topics of discussion, please feel free to browse through the entire website http://joomladay.co.in . To register yourself, you can simply go to the ‘book tickets’ link. The registration is free but hurry up.. only 2 tickets are remaining.
@ 11:08 a.m : Now no point hurrying up. All tickets for the J! day sold out. Sorry … !!!
Joomla Day, Pune
The organizing committee consists of :
* Amit Kumar Singh
* Ashwin Date
* Mangesh Yadav
* Parth Lawate
* Shardul Mohite
The event will be graced with the guest speaker Mr. Toby Patterson ( Member of the Joomla! Development core committee )
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Position: Development Working Group Joomla.org
For the past six years Mr. Toby has been living in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In Thailand he has helped local NGOs develop Joomla websites and currently works as aconsultant and trainer. Toby has developed Joomla extensions since 2003 when Joomla was known as Mambo.
Eagerly awaiting for the event…
Curtsey http://joomladay.co.in
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications & related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week, from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australasia and Asia.To mark the one-year anniversary of BarCamp was held in multiple locations world wide on August 25-27, 2006.
Barcamp Pune 5 is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire of people for sharing and learning in an open environment. It is an intense event having a lot of discussions, demos and a lot of interactions among the attendees.
The previous barcamp pune had taken place on 16th february 2008 at Thoughtworks,pune. Being a volunteer for the event was a wonderful experience all together- got to learn new things ; interact with a lot if people and knowing them personally has proved very helpful in the long run.
This time barcamp pune 5 is to be held on 29th November, 2008 (till date) Venue : SICSR and we are expecting a varity any new topics for discussion. The venue is still not fixed but to get updated visit the official website of barcamp pune or get updates on your mobile through Google SMS Channel or SMS ‘ON BarCampPune’ to 09870807070 .
Clubhack - A pioneer in successfully organizing hackers’ convention in India serves the purpose of meeting and knowledge sharing of hackers, security professionals, law enforcement agencies and other security enthusiasts. This convention is annually targeted towards System Administrator, various IT professionals and those interested in the field of Information Security.
Clubhack organized its first hackers’ convention last year on 9th Dec ‘07. It was attended by a lot of people which included IT professionals, people from the law enforcing agencies and other security enthusiasts. The speakers also included a few international speakers.
This year clubhack2008 will host the world’s 2nd hackers’ convention: A platform where the great minds will come together to share their ideas relating to the Information security and other related issues.
