Comments on: BCB 5 over BCB 4 – What can be better

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:06:51 +0000

Hi Manikandan,
You can either watch the barcamp wiki @ http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/Main_Page
And/Or subscribe to the Yahoo groups @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangalore_barcamp/

By: Manikandan

Manikandan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:43:38 +0000

Is there any way i could get to know of when the next barcamp will be held?Missed out on this one since i came to know of it at the last minute.If you could mention some mailing list or something,it will be greatly appreciated.

By: Piyush Gupta

Piyush Gupta — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:13:34 +0000

Good to see someone else also bringing awareness about the improvements that the Barcamp needs.

I also appreciate your to the point talks. I take this from you.

I was also thinking like the Blogger’s group, it will also be a good idea to form Bangalore XYZ groups based on other collectives (of course the ones which doesn’t exist). This way a better plan to for remaining un-planned can be worked out.

I observed that the Blogger’s collective was the most efficient one in terms of information dissemination as the speakers & lead guys knew each other beforehand and had better understanding.

However, it is just a thought, may be people reading your blog can comment on its pros & cons.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:02:55 +0000

I agree with you on most points.. The hackfest will depend on the participants and someone will have to organize it. It was scheduled for day one but was canceled due to weather.

The point of Barcamp is not limiting of people. We cannot and should not. But what we should try is for much higher interaction and participation.

And lastly, I completely agree with the talks. That is one of the points I’ve tried to stress on in the post

By: Pramod Biligiri

Pramod Biligiri — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:22:30 +0000

I really enjoyed Day 1 though I woke up too late to make it for Day 2.

I too felt there were too many things going on at one time and spread far apart. A 2-3 hour hackfest during the day instead of the night maybe? Perhaps lovers of different languages/frameworks can use their tool of choice and later compare outputs – we could have had Flex, Silverlight devs compete this time considering both Adobe and MS were there.

I think if the number of people cross 300, you’ll end up in a FOSS.IN situation. Smaller and more informal, the better.

To avoid “talks”, set up a panel of 2-3 people to instead “discuss” the talk. Once they set the conversational tone, ppl will feel it easier to pitch in with questions, comments. With a projector and one guy on a monologue, it becomes a classroom. It happened with the “Integrated Code generation” talk in the Java track.