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Barcamp mumbai – twitter meetup

Barcamp mumbai along with everything else was fun mostly because of the twiterrati I met there. I got a chance to meet and interact with a lot of tweeple, i had been following for so long. It was funny to realise how much we knew about each other without even meeting for even once. Twitter has been a great medium for me to find likeminded people, best ppl in their respective fields, the ones who know what they are talking about.

I’m sure each one of us develops an impression of the person through the tweets but a meeting in person gives a new dimension to all those tweets. Here is are my first impressions of the tweeple I met @ BCM4 :

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are meant to tickle the funny bone and should be taken in pure humor. No offense  to anyone is intended I really appreciate each of the following and have a high amount of respect for them.

@preshit : Gimme my gadgets and I am happy.. anything for frendz..

@shadez :  Happy go lucky. keep the faith.. play on..

@MysticDews : I wont speak out of turn.. I know where the world is heading  to and where I want to go.

@Asfaq : My way or highway.. i like you .. but Im not sure if it wud stay the same for long.. : )

@aDeSe : halfway between values and rebel. I love the game of life.. but the rules suck…

@dhempe : Mr. sincere .. life, frends, fun.. i am faithful to each one.

@punkpolkadots : im happy the way i am.. u mind?

@Netra : total control.. i demand respect.. and i work for it.

@UrmiRaj14 : Live life Queen size.

@aalaap : there are some things money cant buy, i have everything else..

@vivekk : Mr. niceguy.. sharing is the way to go.

@maharana : Its only a matter of time.. i would make it big.. really big..

@vipulmathur : okay guys.. say cheese…now hold it, forever .. its good to see the world smiling.

@unitechy :  Observation is my idea of fun.  no.. no.. no, I DO speak .. but I like to choose my audience.

I’ll keep adding to the list as and when I meet more tweeple..

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BarCamp Mumbai 4

Bar Camp Mumbai 4 happened on 4th and 5th OCT at SJM-SOM IIT. It was a two day event, full of fun and learining and while crowd was higher on the first day, I feel that the sessions were better on the day 2.

This time BarCamp was more oriented towards enterprenurship and startups. A lot of sessions covered different aspects of starting up a company.

Rajiv Dhingra of WATblog inspired the gathering with his own story of success while giving tips on how to break out of the regular herd. Anand Lunia from seedfund.in gave valueable insights on how to acquire Seed funding, what works, what doesnt. Bakshish Dutta from Sun offered help with their special plans for setting up the infrastructure for startups. Aditi gupta from CIIE gave tips on brand buiding for startups and some gyan on the incubation process. There were a few startups like  entrip.com, youcharades.com, housie app by socialwebfactory and m4mum.com who presented a demo of their products and shared their experiences. You can read about all the sessions on the official barcamp site barcampmumbai.org.

There were some impromptu presentations too. The one I liked the most was by Appu and Vipul on Social Photo sharing. They highlighted why photo sharing is important and how so many people all across the globe are getting benifitted by such photo sharing communities. The presentation they had put up was amazing. Both of them are photography fanatics themselves and have their photo streams on Flickr. Appu’s stream and Vipul’s stream.

Another session which interested me was on wireless security presented by Sheetal Joseph. She gave a little run down on how security on wireless networks is compromised and what measures one can take to ensure maximum security. A copy of the presentation is available at OWASP.

I met a lot of people and shared a lot of ideas. The gathering was a mixed crowed, students, enterprenurs, techies, bloggers, geeks, management people, etc. and everyone had something to share. It was a wonderful experience.. I hope I would present something in the next barcamp.

The regulars say that this time the turn out was pretty low and I realised that most people this time were the first timers like me. I cant speak about others but I’m sure I would be a regular from now on.

Check out barcampmumbai 4 pics at preshit’s photostream.

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