Wikicamp.in- The fun tale
ramanujam March 4th, 2007
WikiCamp turned out to be a hell lot of fun and an enriching experience. This time i was more actively involved in the organising activities than Proto. The day before the event we got the Tidel Park Auditorium very late and so organising the stuff and setting up the hall for the event dragged on and on and i returned home some time around 1′o clock in the morning. Kribs dropped me and Aravind on the way to the airport where he was supposed to pick up Jimmy Wales at 12:50 AM. Catched up with some sleep and started early the next morning.
This time there were no hassles and everything went on really smooth. Credits to the super fast registration team. The unconference mood was perfectly set with the beds, the intrusion balls and the couches. I didn’t catch up with any of the sessions completely except the Blog vs Wiki debate in which i spoke for blogs with Sagaro against Siddharth and Kribs which was later joined by many others. The wonderful part was the wikibooklet. On friday night at 10 PM when we were at syed’s office for the final organiser’s meet a guy came forward to print the booklet and around ten of us completed all the chapters overnight and we got the printed booklets the next evening. THAT was the power of wikis and it was a great feeling.
THE HINDU carried an article about Wikicamp with a wikipuppy pile photograph of the organisers along with Jimbo. The Q&A session in which some 30 of us mobbed Jimmy was good fun. Good some intersting information.
Later Suderman came and we guys had a good chat with him about his movie. Thanks to Dinesh who brought those Red bull chicks and also stacking my backpack with 7 redbull cans with which he later hit Sagaro. At the end we all signed on the backdrop and brought it down. After the event we went to Farm House in ECR for dinner with Jimmy. Kaushik screwed up a little with the route and we reached there before people started eating in Sid’s car.
The networking which happened in Wikicamp was excellent. Met many new people and best of all this season was new found friend TU Dinesh who helped with the designing and lots of other stuff for Wiki Camp. Incidentally March 6 happens to be his birthday, Happy Birtday da machan 
Once again Sagaro has come up with the wonderful picture story. Go there and scroll, it looks like a video. Go get the feel!!
Watch the pictures which i clicked HERE
Go to flickr and type WIKICAMP to watch the entire photo collection.
Indiainteracts has got a wonderful collection of the videos.
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thats GREAT!
i am terribly sorry that notmany around me are aware of wikipedia. and i m workin in a MNC.
This was a great oppurtunity for you, and misuse the same in future. The ability to compose a book in a few hours.. thats amazing
KEEP GOING!
that was a great place to network, dint know how time flew …
thanks a lot da
@barbi
Thanks!
May be they are hiring jerks into MNC’s these days
@dinesh
Ya… dont worry, there is still lot to come!
Happy bday once again
being women day’s… wondering — why? not (m)any women in wikicamp..!!
may be wrong question to wrong person.. but just thinking loud.
trust you guys had fun… cheers
@yuva
(m)any women in wikicamp???
LOL
actually there were a few this time…It is very difficult to make women come for such technology events….
We have done brain storming sessions figuring out the ways to bring women to the camp….
So far in vain
dei dei!! Nan muzhikara madiri oru picture pottu kavuthutaye da!! Kevalama eyes a big a open paniruken da. Ipdi kalaaichutaye
May be they are hiring jerks into MNC’s these days
Quite true!