Conference Venue and RSVP

Hey All

Bar Camp fever is going to Mumbai. This time the focus is on Open Source Technologies. Come over to Mumbai for a fantastic Geeks event. This is a two day event, from 23 to 24 March 2007. Venue has excellant residential facilities also. Please let me know if you are travelling to Mumbai.

Let me tell you a little about the concept of
BarCamp just in case you are not aware of the same. I am writing from
the experiences of organizing a similar Bar Camp in Delhi. I am
taking this text from Times of India which covered last Bar Camp.

To a layman, a BarCamp may look like a conference with presentations
and sessions, but geeks would rather call it an "unconference" simply
because of its unstructured format.

It's a meet that works just like an Open Space community. The sessions
are driven and created by the participants during the course of the
event. The organisers have no say!!!

The event typically begins with face-to-face schedule making which
allows for emerging developments in technology to be covered.

After introduction of participants, topics are invited. The titles of
various sessions are then announced.

The schedule is then posted on the wall. Each session is about an hour
long. The day closes with the participants gathering for 20-30 minutes
and sharing the day's highlights. The podcast and presentations are
saved on the wiki for later reference.

Interestingly, if a speaker exceeds his time limit, the audience is
allowed to throw small soft balls at him to make him stop. Sometimes,
they SMS their reactions about a speaker, and the messages can be seen
on a large screen behind the speaker.

Bar Camp an ad-hoc gathering of people - geeks, software
professionals, even filmmakers and amateur radio station owners.
What's common is their desire to share and learn in an open
environment. It's an intense event with brainstorming, demos,
interactions on various tech-related issues.

We are focussing on Open Source in this particular Bar Camp. So guys
n gals, get ready for a roller coaster ride.

To make this event, it would be great if you can volunteer as an
organizer, send notes to other geeks, be ready to speak on this event,
see if you can bring in some sponsership. We just require someone to
sponsor the venue and food!! That is only 50-60 k of money required!

Please feel free to contact me at 09810243170.

Regards

Vineet
09810243170