The Bangalore Bloggers Meet happened. And it ROCKED. More than 40 bloggers from Bangalore, Mumbai and two from Germany (who are in Bangalore) as well as a couple of non-bloggers (journalists, short-film makers) gathered in Brew HaHa and had a blast.
For the first half an hour or so, everyone introduced themselves. And the sheer variety was impressive in itself. Once the intros were done, we ordered coffees from a good selection of delicious menu and got on with discussions on various topics.
The first point on the agenda was to decide the agenda for the Barcamp later this month. A lot of topics for discussion were decided upon during which your’s truly volunteered to give a talk on various blog platforms, and how to start up on blogging.
Then someone (with deep apologies because I forget the name RK) gave a talk on micro-financing blogging(something which was not of my interest) while demoed Pownce to a few people. Then people discussed starting a campaign for social awareness. Lastly, just before we broke up, I floated an idea to start a site for Bangalore Bloggers where bloggers from Bangalore would contribute articles, as well as aggregated contents from all contributors would be available for reading (a la livejournal friends page)
The meeting went about an hour or so more than scheduled but I am sure no one was complaining. After the break up, some of us went down to purple haze for beer where Sanjukta ended up getting high and Snigdha wanting to dance but for the lack of a dance floor 
Oh and it was Sridhar’s birthday so he got “pseudo” birthday bumps 
Pics from the meet:
More pics from the meet at Blogaloreans
Others bloggers who covered the meet”
Prashanth, Neha, Adheeth, Jerry, Kpowerinfinity (Sorry I don’t remember your name 
), Sridhar, Bikram
Edit: Updated Adheeth’s name
Edit: Corrected RK’s talk topic and update with his name. My apologies RK
Tags: aj, bangalore, bangalore-bloggers-meet, bbm, blogaloreans, bloggers, coffees, purple_haze, short_film, snigdha, social_awareness, sridhar, volunteered
July 22nd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
hey u spelled my name wrong!!
July 22nd, 2007 at 6:19 pm
That’s alright! You can keep calling me kpowerinfinity
July 22nd, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Purple haze was fun.. We actually moved to Legends Of Rock in the rain.. Good fun overall..
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
@Adheeth: My apologies. I’ve fixed it now
@Kpowerinfinity: What is your real name? I tried to find out but could not..
@Jayanth: Yeah purple haze rocks. I love the music there..
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:17 pm
KK
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:48 am
micro-financing ? LOL ..it is micro-blogging.
I was late by more than an hour, so did not join you guys..but I was there sitting far from you all.
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:05 am
Ooooops.. My deep apologies RK. I actually missed your talk (could not hear you completely) and someone mentioned that you were talking about “Micro-financing”
That’ll teach me not to go simply by second hand information
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
It was a nice get together. I put a nice picture from this event which gives a clear message about the Bloggers Meet.
http://meninweb.blogspot.com/2.....alore.html
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
That’s really cool. But is the monthly meet final? I think it was suggested but not finalised (though I could be wrong)
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:48 pm
AJ, I did not talk !! I did not even join you guys but was sitting in the other corner. I came late !!
I *think* it was micro-blogging (twitter, jaiku) but I am not right person to even guess if someone did not talk on micro-financing !!
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Ok, now I am positively embarrassed. I will confirm who it was and what the topic was now..
Btw, I was the one who volunteered to speak on micro-blogging at the barcamp. So maybe you got confused when you heard that…
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Hey, U forgot to add me.
Check my related post – genius @ play
Catch u at BarCamp.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Thanks for the link Bikram. I have updated the post. I picked up the links from the groups thread sometime yesterday so I missed yours.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Yeah..may be I am confused. Sorry if I am wrong.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:46 am
No sweat RK. I’m in the same state as you..
October 7th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Next time, call me for this!
-Suzanna
http://bangalorebuzzz.blogspot.com
October 8th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Suzanna, will do. I will send out an email when the date for the next meet is decided.