Juwal Bose Says

I was there for barcampkerala3 at cusat campus.

This time around I took a session on Blender software tool. Can ceck the videos of that session here.
I cannot be rash and comment that things doesnot look good or promising, but lets say its like with a startup. It takes a great lot of time and effort for things to really get going. Now we all were of the opinion that barcamp culture in kerala has really come to age. The attendance and quality of craowd really betrayed everything. But then its great to be part of the core team with the vision and the will to persist.

So the different sessions taken were Development in Visual Web Developer by Shalvin P, Programming paradigms by Praseed, Fire bug by Binny, Scrumming with CollabTeam by Abrachan, Blending with Blender by Juwal Bose (me) and Mobile experience with m.mobshare by Vyshnu.

Microsoft had sponsored the T shirts and we spent rs 30 on each as it took some expense to get those across the border. The attendance was not as good as expected and hence the food arranged seemed to be too much. The organisers did a good work making it all taken care off.

There was a filler session taken regarding startups and ideas which seemed to help a lot of people wth some vision to go ahead and make a mark. Two people who really stood out were Praseed Pai and arun basil lal. Praseed with his paradigms class really made everyone think if they are a real programer r not. He had this vast knowledge that he even asked me lots of questions on Blender which was pretty much a boring topic for a techie. Arun on the other hand was the most active attendee with a lot of questions for everyone and with a lot of thought provoking remarks.

As for me I think we really need to rethink the total strategy here. Running around for sponsors, getting the event organised, getting quality crowd present sessions, getting space to arranging the event and when the turnaround is not so heartwarming, we should think another way. Lets make next barcamp an online meetup. We dont need much sponsors, not much running around for space or getting quality crowd travel to places. I dont know much about the technical difficulty if we video cast something which is being viewed by more than say 100 ppl around the state. But then once such a culture kicks off i believe it will be much better to organise and get things going.