Barcamp on Web 2.0
This saturday i attended the Hyderabad bar camp on Web 2.0.
The first of it's kind in Hyderabad:). I must appreciate the organisers for
getting this done in a proper way...Except for the chairs, everything was very good:) And this had a large audience of around 150+ attending this event inspite of the terrible summer in Hyderabad. This defenetly reflects the passion of hyderabadis and also the hard work of the organisers.
The sessions started on time, and the time was maintained very well in most of the session. In general then sessions were good, but some were a bit disappointing too.
The session by Mr Ramesh,Progress Software was a very good start with a brief on web 2.0
and web 2.0 trends. It was pretty clear indeed.
Mr Jay Puller, CEO Pramati took a session on 'Opportunities in web 2.0'. This was also a very good session, mainly because the speaker was really admirable and was talking perfect sense in every litle
statement he was making. I rarely find people at that top level (with due appology to all the top guys:), being so much in touch with technology and so passionate to technology. However i would have appreciated if he had talked more on REST as well:) But in general i liked the session.
Rajan from Advetaa gave a wonderful session on a weird topic 'Economics of Web 2.0'. This reminded me of my college days where i was struggling with things like n =n+1/2 etc etc...:) He was mentioning of Carpool Mumbai as a good application on web 2.0. I still need to check the application. His statement 'Manage attention, not information' caught the audience attention and their were many questions on this.. I think a better statement would be 'Manage Attention more than information'( because we have been managing information till now). But still things cannot work without managing information:)
And wikis being considered as a web 2.0 trend which is huge store of information, this statement is totally contradicting it.
Then Mr. Sharad Singh from SAS gave a session on 'Parallels in Web 2.0 and Tangible User Interface (TUI)'.
The session and the videos were very cool. But somewhere i felt that because of Web 2.0 's populatity, people are forcefully trying to find parallels to it in eveything :)
This was followed by a session or rather an open discussion on 'openjournal' by Dr Vishal Garg, IIIT. His idea was to find a economical way of publshing, where the profits reaches the writer and the reviwer rather than the publisher. So he proposed that we can have open journels on the internet where an author gets paid by the number of page hits or he charges a specific rate for his articles. But i think this trend has already started and it's not a new idea at all . As i work on sql, i can immediately remember of windowsITpro.com and SSWUG.com immediately. But there are many others too. However I totally agree that this is good wave and we can encourage it, but still don't think that it can be on par with a book reading experience.
Dr Kamal from IIIT took a session on a his idea of virtual system which was being developed called 'meraSystem.com' I did not find this new either because i think that's how the virtual servers works. Many of the MS elearning happens with these virtual servers. But i am not sure if this is what he was saying or did i miss something in understanding him.
This was the last session i attended and after that had to rush back to home..
After this there were 6 more sesion which i missed. Our MUGH Buddy Anand Radhakrishnan and their team from Cordys had also given a session on their application which i think would have been interesting. Because i have heard that they are doing a great work in this area.
You can find Kunal with more precise details on rest of the sessions.
In general it was a good experience and wish to see more of such events...
The audience were also great...and some were funny too who trying to evangelise certain
things without a proper base or a reason:)
Kudos to organisers and T-Shirt and caps were great too:)