Faruk @ Work: BARCAMP in Guwahati(Assam), India

BarCamp Guwahati

"Hello OSGi" presented by Me and Nabamita

BarCamp for the first time in North-East of India was organized by Zaloni Inc. in their Guwahati Development Centre on 23rd Oct' 2010.

What is a BarCamp? From the origins in Palo Alto, BarCamp is an unconference, meant for knowledge sharing and learning.

Looks Cool !!

In details, A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. The name BarCamp was inspired as a complement to FooCamp, a private tech gathering run by Tim OReilly.

The first ever BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005 in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week from concept to event, with 200 attendees. Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, the MIddle East, Australasia and Asia.

Hadoop Session by Ben Sharma,Founder of Zaloni Inc.

The focus of BarCamp Guwahati was emerging open source technologies.Barcamp Guwahati invited technologists, programmers, developers, designers, and Geeks to a day long of unadulterated geeky Barcamp fun.

The number of attendies was good.There was good response from the attendies and those who were unable to attend the BarCamp Guwahati.The Session was started from 10:30 am IST sharp.It was a huge success.

Having Fun with my colleagues

The details you can get from the official website of the Barcamp Guwahati.

I have given one session on OSGi titled "Hello OSGi" along with Nabamita who is also a Software Engineer.

Two of the attendies praised us for the session and they told me that they had heard about OSGi for the first time.They really appreciated Zaloni Inc. for organizing the BarCamp in Guwahati.Hope to see more BarCamps here in North-East of India.

Some of the pictures taken on the day of BarCamp.