After being postponed 2 times , The Delhi Barcamp 4 started at Amity audi quite well as scheduled. All credit to Piyush and volunteers the people behind it.
I reached the venue much early and met this guy Nilesh and IITK and IIML product , He has just started a startup and runs a music school and he was to perform in the evening beer party .
Then the event started in a formal way , But by an amazing personality Mr. Talwant Singh , A Judge by profession who has used IT in the district courts to evolutionarily automating the processes of District Courts, A first by some one in Government Sector. No wonder he blogs for cyber security.
He presented a good talk and said build something that works and is simple to use even for an illiterate person.
Then it was talk on entrepreneurship incubation my Amity ppl, Then we moved to the presentation halls. First interesting talk was by chahiye guys (one of the main sponsors) . The presntation was a bit over crowded by the American names but the emphasis was on building something that adds value.
Nirat Bhatnagar said there are two ways to make a difference :
- start a business and make profit only
- start an NGO with no profit no loss.
But there is middle path also , to put ethics in you business , to do something that adds value to society.
Then a nice talk by two young guys on building facebook apps. They had built a cool Gift sharing app iGift in their summer training.
Another session was by Alabot guys , there product is really cool , it uses NLP and sits as middleware to give results for any query from different sources. The talk was more market oriented more then telling how it was built . There was demo for getting air ticket from chennai to banglore. from IM and it provided awesome results.
In the mean time i met my twitter frnd Mayank Dhingra , He is working some really cool stuff at a startup that works in Mobile and Python . Then the guys frm quite famous slideshare , Arun and Gaurav.
Then it was lunch . After lunch Guneet from chaahiye told about developing web apps with salesforce.
and Demo by RouteGuru folks .
The the last talk was by two firangs Nick and Charlie from UK and Germany . They out sourced themselves to India for yet another startup for yet another Rails app Entrip . This talk was pick of the barcamp in terms of demo and the work they had done . Entrip is mashup of Google Maps , flickr facebook and many other api’s to show travel trips by frequent travllers on a map .
The two presentation i really liked were by prashant on weird topic East Internet company , he elaborated how the History of expeditions lead to colonies and Wat will happen with the internet .
Get the East Internet Company presentation here.
The other presentation was by Akshatt on Folksonomy the term given to social collaboration over Internet . The power of contribution/sharing can do wonders. Get the Folksonomy presentation here .
There was quiz to go and a beer party later , but i had to leave as i had been offred lift to gurgaon by another startupper from Masplantaz. He is working on some product on Rails . Wish i hear another startup success story.:)
And Yes i got the free T-Shirt which says ” I want to change the world but they don’t provide the source code “
This was my first barcamp. I wanted to hear about python/django stuff . But it was Rails and Entrepreneurship all the way .
My Takeways from the Barcamp were:
One should build some thing that is simple and that adds value.
Check out the Barcamp Pics at Flickr.
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