Chennai BarCamp: What an experience!
April 12th, 2006Whoever thought Chennai would host such fantastic meetups. Chennai BarCamp which took place on 8th and 9th of April, was a boatload of fun and information. The meet started off informally, as is the custom with BarCamps, and the schedule was completely rejigged to adjust speakers present and not present.
What followed was some times impromptu and well-prepared talks by entreprenuers and geeks on their pet projects, new ventures, and of course, lots of networking. Kiruba started off the event with a bang, it pretty much kept the pace for the two days.
Got to hear nice talks on Web 2.0 by Narain, SEO talk by Ganesh, Project InfraNet by Vijay Anand (this was seriously impressive – in scope and potential of change) and lots lots more. The surprise talk was Atul’s talk on mobile computing. He did a very good justification of how the future of computing is moving towards mobile.
Maybe the best part was, I got some really good response for my Ruby on Rails talk. Looking at the small amount of audience (most of them left to listen to talks like VC funding and other stuff) I doubted there would be much response. Well, it was a complete surprise that I got some good reviews.
Perhaps more important, I secured a good meeting place for Chennai.rb. Mr. Udayan Banerjee of NIIT has graciously offered us their conference room for our monthly meets. Simply awesome.
I hope such events happen more and more, and will continue to rock Chennai. Three cheers for Chennai BarCamp!