BarCamp Kerala 8

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held on 28 March, 2010 at MACFAST, Thiruvala. BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

Hearing the word ‘barcamp’ for the first time?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event

Venue

BCK 8 will be at MACFAST, Thiruvala. For more details, go here

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. As of yet we have 65 attendees.

Sessions

Till now we have 6 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to BarCamp Kerala, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• First ever BarCamp in Kerala on November 24th, 2007
• BarCamp Kerala Part 5
• BarCamp Kerala 7 Live Blogging
• Barcamp Kerala LiveBlog
• BarCamp Kerala on May 3

Thanks to binnyva who wrote the BarCamp Kerala post Generator by which this very blog post was written.

Barcamp Kerala 6

Recently, I have been seeing many posts and tweets on BarCamp Kerala 6. So what is a ‘BarCamp’? I searched wikipedia and found the below defintion.

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences (or unconferences) – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.

I think a more simple definition is from the official site of Barcamp Kerala which is given below.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

BarCamp originally started as a free and open source off shoot of Tim O’Reilly’s FooCamp. The first BarCamp took place in 2005 at the office of SocialText. Since this time the methods and structure have been applied to various industries and locations across the world.

BarCamps are organized and evangelized largely through the web, harnessing what might be called a Web 2.0 communications toolkit. Anyone can initiate a BarCamp, using the BarCamp wiki.BarCamp originally started as a free and open source off shoot of Tim O’Reilly’s FooCamp. The first BarCamp took place in 2005 at the office of SocialText. Since this time the methods and structure have been applied to various industries and locations across the world.

Quick Links

BarCamp official site  : www.barcamp.org

BarCamp blog : barcamp.wordpress.com

BarCamp on wikipedia  : wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp

Hey, my post title was ‘ Barcamp Kerala 6(BCK6)’. So let me  say something about BCK6.The 6th edition of BarCamp Kerala (BCK6), is scheduled on 11th October,2009,Sunday at Rajagiri College Campus, Ernakulam.

I would finally recommend you people to read Shwetank Dixit’s experience on BCK5 which you can find at http://my.opera.com/shwetankdixit/blog/2009/05/06/barcamp-kerala-5.

So what is still holding you back from registering on the 6th edition of BarCamp Kerala. Do register at the Official Site of BarCamp Kerala 6.

www.barcampkerala.org

Barcamp  Google Group

Barcamp @twitter

BarCamp Kerala 6 details