tuxmaniac’s blog

Do you need to plan it to the last detail for getting any event successful? Do you need to have huge “conference rooms” to exchange ideas? Here is Barcamp, an event that dumps these myths into the trash!! Its always been a great experience and learning for me at the barcamps in Bangalore. This time too was not different. Good Food, Apt ambience and many “diversified” people made Barcamp Bangalore 4, an event to cherish. The idea of having collectives worked very well especially with groups having less number of people. A new addition to the barcamp culture was the SMS Update service which always kept me informed of the happenings all over the venue. (At times I thought I was being spammed ) WiFi was all over, giving me download rates of about 350 Kbps. Yes! You read it right Check the screenshot if you still did not believe what you just read.

I spent most of the time in the Mobile Collective where there were talks on Zook, Using N-Series phones as webcams, WWigo, GPSWatcher and some nice overview from the guys at Microsoft research foundation about their research activities. Photo Collective was another of my favourites where I got some really nice tips on How to make full use of *NOT* DSLR Digi Cams, some nice overview on post processing of photographs and other informations regarding Photography.

Yet another first timer was the “Unband Collective” , a collective for people interested in music. These folks added rhythm to the already amazing ambience. And ofcourse there were the evergreen Lawn, Corridor, Lunch and floor talks and discussions. It was yet another chance to link “IRC Nicknames” to “real faces and names” . To ice it up, there was grande musical finale too this time. BCB4 was lot of fun!!! Waiting for BCB5 now in November 2007

Check my entire flickr set of BCB4 here.