Lip-smacking good! a rather odd adjective to describe a technical (un)conference but thats what it was! To divert into vernacular I would describe it as “bum majja aaya”. Since the declared primary objective for us was to meet friends, brain storm and have fun – we did just that. As soon as we reached the IIT campus we met up with Shreyas and Kaustubh right at the gate. From there we managed to find the venue easily, however before actually climbing up to the halls we treated ourselves to hot idlis and coffee and Shreyas opted for coke. Aasim would have love that – Coke for breakfast! however he had opted to stay with his maasi rather than attend the barcamp. Discussions started right away and before the cuppa was finished we had drawn a conclusion “A Geek’s girlfriend is web 2.0” – She has a face, at times a front end with rounded corners but beyond that she is mostly just a nice concept 😉
Soon we were joined by Mohit, followed by Atul, we migrate to the higher levels of the building, located the halls where things were supposed to happen and plonked ourselves on the podium floor. Atul got busy in trying to get the net access up Shreyas hijacked my TP to burn a DVD for his demo. We were shooed off after a while when the first speaker started. Yes I know in the spirit of the barcamp I am supposed to write about the content of the talks but then #1 there are several people who have already done it #2 I was too busy talking to friends outside in the corridors to pay much attention to the talks. In fact true to the spirit of barcamp the conversations outside were very very interesting, ranging from purely technical to purely irrelevant.
Some random tidbits
Met for the first time.
Project Eklavya from IIT-B about which Prof. Dr. D. B. Pathak is a very good concept.
The lunch was very very good – Thanks to whoever fixed the menu.
I did speak about Coppermine (mostly) and Pixelpost.
Network somehow died soon after the sessions started.
Monday morning has caught up with me…