Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-12 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 12-Mar-07, at 9:39 AM, Nishant Shah wrote: The good news is that they are now planning to make Bangalore Barcamp a quarterly affair... which means that hopefully, the next time it happens I shall be there with it. I really think you should come this time. I'm trying to get folks

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-11 Thread Bruce Metcalf
Nishant Shah wrote: Tread gently because you tread on my dreams? :) I would love it if somebody could sponsor tickets *looks suspiciously at you* Are you swindling government money? What is the price of tickets? I couldn't find any reference to cost on the web site. And there just

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-11 Thread Nishant Shah
I never thought getting sponsorships would be this easy. Thanks a lot for the offer Bruce. But as Jace was telling me just the other day in personal chat, the whole point of the unconference structure is to not worry about the infrastructure and travelling costs of the participants. Also, there

[silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech, where technology meets society at large. At this event, we intend to share stories of technology implementations that affected society around us, and social norms that affected the course of technology. We have stories of e-governance, electronic record

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread ashok _
Are these things held at the same time worldwide ? the first barcamp of nairobi is being organized on the same day On 3/9/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech, where technology meets society at large. At this event, we intend to share stories

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: For the regular Barcampers: this event may be somewhat different from what you may have come to expect. This time we’re not as interested in Anything at all you can do to stop it from sounding like a six month old edition of PC Quest would be a very good thing indeed

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Nishant Shah
Now this is SOMETHING! Suddenly i feel very sorry that I am going to miss it. Till now, all that I had heard about Barcamp Bangalore sounded like a mediocre technical blog coming to life. This, I heartily wish I could be a part of... I can see your hand in this. Awesome I say Nishant On 3/9/07,

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 09-Mar-07, at 5:44 PM, Nishant Shah wrote: Now this is SOMETHING! Suddenly i feel very sorry that I am going to miss it. Till now, all that I had heard about Barcamp Bangalore sounded like a mediocre technical blog coming to life. This, I heartily wish I could be a part of... I can see

Re: [silk] Announcement: Barcamp Bangalore 3: SocialTech

2007-03-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: For that, we'll need you or someone you recommend to come and talk about how exactly how this anti-spam business works -- and maybe outshine the presence of uninteresting folks. :) Seriously, the number of people who are unaware of how this works needs addressing.