DevCamp Bangalore

BarCamp has opened doors for un-conferences around the world (FooCamp started the movement though). In Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the East, BarCamp has had a profound effect on how conferences are being organized.

DevCamp – A Developer unConference is born to be an annual meet for all the Developers.

Today, I am here at DevCamp. The wiki had more than 600 registrations and only the first 225 are allowed. I rushed in the morning forgetting that the weekend has just begun. I reached here at around 9 AM thinking that i might not be allowed, but I was on time 🙂

One of the attractions to this camp is that Martin Fowler is here in person. My expectations were high and was looking forward for some good discussions on open source and technology. When Siddu introduced him to the participants, he just spoke about his participation with other unconferences and did not intend to involve himself here, rather wanted to see how we participated and what we speak. Disappointed a bit….

Sessions began at 10 AM in the four rooms provided at the ThoughtWorks venue. Here is the list of sessions which happened/happening at the event today:

• Designing a Phishing IDS : Bipin
• PoshZones – A baazaar approach to the semantic web :  Sriram Narayan
• DTRACE : Sanjeev
• CallGraph Skype Indexing : Rajeev Poddar
• Adobe Integrated Runtim (ATR) RIA’s on Desktop
• Lightning Talks : Talks in random by participants in 3 minutes
• Easy Software Development : Prasanth
• Getting Started with Mrcurial : Biju Chacko
• Intruder Alert PoC to Sig Snort IDS : Akash
• Eclipse Plugin development and Android Plugin Internals
• BDD: Learn from JBehav, do it in JUnit
• Working with Data in a Natural Way : Bijoy
• RORR –  Zero to Beta of a Publishing Platform : Gokul
• Nintendo DS Homebrew Hackery – Siddu
• Writing wargaming aids in DJango – Manoj Govindan
• A discusson of Ruby
• MONADS : Ravi M
• What really is “enerpris” grade app? Open Discussion : Pradeep BV
• Mobile Eco-system : Janakiram
• AAKRAMAN – The Ruby war : Chirag/Akshay
• MOOSE – A Biological simulation system
• Building Social application on Facebook/Orkut : Himanshu Baneja
• Enhancing Firefox, Password Manage with OpenID
• Load Testing weapps with ERLang : Kartik SR
• Bringing web application to desktop : Suresh
• Develop voice/speech enabled web 2.0 application using TringMe API
• Tye in any Language – on any website
• Twitter API + WordPress Plugin API: Ujjwal
• Automation testing for win apps : Vivek Singh
• Fault tolerance load balancing in JMS : Sandil
• Mobile application made easy : Mobisy
• BDD – Liz is painting during this time
• OpenSolaris virtulization : Ajesh
• Programming with ANDROID : Selvan
• Lets Develop a J2ME Game : Zarina
• API manipulation Rest & JSon : Sebastin
• Web Security – A Discussion
• Clutter – Fun with Building Interfaces : Shreyas
• The state of JavaScript
• Symantic Web : Harish

Well, the boards are full and so are the rooms. Am heading off now for a session…

I have DevCamp pictures on my Flickr account. Pradeep has few, check them out.

One Day, I would love to co-ordinate in organizing or be part of Burning Man in India. Hope the day is not far away 🙂