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This barcampMU3 was very much interesting, It was first scheduled in Sep 2007, but got postponed.
Finally on --March 9-- Correction March 8 2008,it goes rocking !!!
summary:
1. No. of total participants : 70
2. student of Somaiya college sion + other college - 15%
3. First time campers -- 15%
Demo
1. One laptop per child ! by Amit Gogna (www.laptop.org)
This was the most interesting demo by Amit Gogna, a small 1kg laptop for kid, who can do everything you imagine, browsing, paint, inbuilt camera/recording, Mashnetwork(i.e. can detect automattically the nearest peer using mash !)
-running on Sugar os, stuff developed with Python GTK.
-can simulate the "child laptop" on your regular laptop/desktop using simulator.
I personally took few photographs using the laptop, will post later :)
The actual laptop device was shown, and many campers have really try the laptop by spending 5-10 minutes or even more ! :)
Few campers asked interesting query, about technical specification,localization, any implementation and more.
Tech Specification and more :
AMD 433 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, "Not for Money/ Not for sell" but approx cost in US 188USD, (in india approx 240 USD)
Yes, there is one implementation, Khairat (Karjat) a small village of 200 people, a single school, single teacher and approx 22 kids.
If you think you want to contribute to the project feel free to get in touch with Amit Gogna.
2. Demo Vakow (interesting concepts, the product made by Two folks, RG and Amitu)
as per RG Vakow is build on the fact, people like SMS forwarding. It is SMS management system, you can Tag sms, subscribe to particular tag, and lot more customized way to subscribe and post.vakow has integrated stuff with Orkut and Facebook so can share SMS with orkut, facebook friend easily on E-mail, Web or Phone. Users have full flexibility and control. !
The most intersting part, Full Vakow.com is developed and operated by only two folks ! They are looking for few more LAMP(python) folks ! checkout more details at www.Vakow.com
==Tutorial kind of stuff==
1. Windows Server 2008 TechnicalWindows Server 2008 Technical by Aviraj Ajgekar Many folks have cross question and Aviraj (student of the college) able to provide to the point answer, few queries like can you show "how to configure MSAD ?" is bounced as he has already it was configured. The intersting part i come to know is Aviraj himself using Sun OS for its day to day work !
2. IVR using RAGI (Ruby Asterisk Gateway Interface) Sheetal from Enterux Solutions)
Sheetal has explained what is IVR, what is asterisk, and the full enterprise stack of RAGI.
how to configure basic stuff and how it works,
==TechFun Stuff==
1. Arpil Fool :) by Raxit Sheth
Folks were assuming its about MyKavita or Yahoo Hack ! but no it was about VoiceXml !
Raxit has first explain how it has made april fool (in 2007) to bunch of people [his friends only] using crazy idea of Free Phone Recharge.you may want to visit these old link of how the crazy idea executed.
http://raxitsheth.blogspot.com/2007/03/free-recharge-or-postpaid-bill.html
http://raxitsheth.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html
Raxit also explained (no demo, no ppt, just wordy explaination and Search Google !) its very easy to create IVR apps using VoiceXml. One can use plain Vxml and any serverside markup like asp,php,jsp etc to generate Voicexml. Raxit has made the simple application within 10 minutes from Cybercafe !
Ideas Innovation and Case studies discussion
1. Opensource as business model by Amol Shah (http://cyborgsblog.blogspot.com/).
It was interesting advocacy+discussion about opensource, It is interesting, interactive, even people enjoyed it, but counted as "common topic and never ending discussion".
2. The role of the community in open source development (by Renaud Richardet)This is second most interesting stuff after OLPC, Renaud is active contributor to few top-level projects in Apache. It is about Opensource but not regular discussion ! Its about community buildup, measurement of is community active ? and how to get started for opensource stuff.
Renaud explain his personal experience and cast study, how he has started to participate in Opensource project, Analogies of Comany and Projects and more,
Renaud has putup blog post here and interesting presentation here
3. Gaurav Shah
Gaurav turned up with Non-IT ideas (and someone is executing that also)
First one was Solar power, the most interesting he has put comparision, CBA and Payback time for Solar panel for street light.
Even Non-IT, folks has put intersting discussion.
The next is also by Gaurav, its about project Moksh (not about Moksh Juneja, popular blogar)! Funny but serious and intersting.
This discussion was also non-IT but solving reallife problem of people. The idea is simple, as Shaadi and Marriage stuff are doing lot of business from "Clothes","Catering services", "Musical party" and more event management stuff, they are (not clear Gauav or someone else !) doing "Event management when some people die". They help people in all legal fromalities, insurance formalities, Pooja - Antim Sanskar and other religious formalities, they are having team of "Expert Pundit" also !!!
In metrocity, many times it is very difficult for relatives and friend can provide enough time to this type of stuff.The important point gaurav has made is during this time, family need support of their family members. Their Family member don't want the leading person of family doing all these formalities instead of providing moral support, their team will take care of formalities,legal stuff and reduce the burden. He also explain it is not online stuff, It is not easy for normal people to cope with all these formalities. Everyone was 'seriously laughing' but gaurav has put this intersting Idea Sharing.
Finally --
Planners of the barcamp MU3 has putup thanks to all those who contribute to MU3, mainly their college staff, admin staff, faculties, principal Mr. Prasad, and thanks to Sun Startup Essentials for Sponsoring the event,and to all the campers !
I would say really i found Interesting stuff in this barcamp, Even no T-shirt, no CAPE,No Startup Talk, Mumbai Janta turnedup with real "Spirit of BarCamp". The stuff was entirely planned by students namely Saumil Parekh, Maulik Shah (both co-founder cafeinfotech and student) and Kunal Panchal. Would say big thanks to planner, keep organizing good stuff in future also !
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Thanks,
Raxit
http://www.mykavita.com/ <---Write your own poem !
