Bangalore Barcamp-3
ramanujam April 3rd, 2007
Bangalore Barcamp was good and so was bangalore. Although it was not that great as i imagined, it was great fun amidst the amazing IIM-B campus.We seven people from the TKF boarded the late night train to Bangalore and the sad part was we didn’t book our tickets together and we were split up in groups(lesson to be learnt next time). I went to my brothers place in Indira Nagar from the station and refreshed and started to IIM-B. Very good turn out, almost 350 people were there to attend BCB3. Some of the sessions which i attended were really good and i didn’t attend most of the sessions especially on the first day.
Registration was pretty good and fast. The name sticker sucked. On the first day, I tore 5 of those and only the 6th one i was able to stick on my t shirt. The second day fortunately the first one clicked!
IIM-B campus- Superb!!More than that the sandwiches which they sell at the 24 hour canteen are really tasty. That too for 15 bucks it is dead cheap.
Then there was an intro in the auditorium for which i was late. Some how the unconference mood was not there. Don’t know the reason, just because it was conducted in an educational institution or the way in which it was conducted.
I attended two sessions in the mobile sector of which “Active mobs” was very nice. Hope they bring it on to Chennai. Then we went to the lunch and some good networking happened in the canteen.
The best of all which i enjoyed was the photography session which me, ganesh and Gitu had. After lunch we went to the UFO tower(one hawt place in IIM-B) and clicked some amazing pictures. We didn’t climb the iron ladder to reach the top as we had our lunch just before and also it was steep.
Ganesh taking a picture of us from the bottom.
The self-timer shot.
The dry leaves…. I loved the sound when we walked on it.
The open discussion in the lawn between the chennai and the bangalore team to decide the venue for Proto.in
The paper wiki!
After the first day, few people played Quake and this was when so thought straight-Sagaro told that every time he visited Bangalore he never missed going to NASA-the gay pub.
We went to a nearby restaurent to have the dinner and i left early. The second day i attended some sessions and discussions. Good gyaan! The one by Lawrence from Creative Commons was incredible. People even continued it over lunch.
Things learnt from two days in Bangalore
-Bangalore is one cheri place nothing much different from chennai.
-The money which i spent travelling inside Blr for two days was more than what i spent for my to and fro chennai-blr train fare.
-8 out of ten people in Bangalore work in the software field, out of which 7 people drink and smoke.
-You can get alcohol every 100 meters in almost all roads in blr.
-Traffic sucks and so does the local transport.
- Auto walahs cheat be it bangalore or chennai.
Overall a memorable experience and also attending the camp made me think a lot about my future. Hope i hit the best decision soon.
