Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-05 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
ng called Proto that happens every 6 months and another on Innovation that's happening in Blr soon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sriram balasubramaniam Sent: 02 August 2007 15:43 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Org

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-04 Thread Ingrid
On 8/2/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right-ho! "Finest minds" by whose standards? Another example: www.tallbergfoundation.org. -- "The future is here; it's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-03 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 02-Aug-07, at 8:02 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a "collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof" that runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and not in good spirit. That did put me off TED

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 8/2/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sriram balasubramaniam wrote: > > All the Silksters meet in India. > > Two things... > 1. We are known as Silk-listers, methinks. > 2. We already do FOU except for the big hoo-haa and sponsors. > > But seriously, I think a TED-like conference w

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread ashok _
On 8/2/07, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > > And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a > "collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof" that > runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and > not in good spirit. That did put me off TED. > Is

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a > "collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof" that Right-ho! "Finest minds" by whose standards?

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread Venkat Mangudi
sriram balasubramaniam wrote: > All the Silksters meet in India. Two things... 1. We are known as Silk-listers, methinks. 2. We already do FOU except for the big hoo-haa and sponsors. But seriously, I think a TED-like conference would really not be silk-like. FoU, I would attend... Venkat

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 02-Aug-07, at 4:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: We call it a FOU camp out here Actually, we call it a Barcamp around here. J.

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 8/2/2007 4:18 PM, Mahesh Murthy wrote: > Who would we like to have as speakers? What would set this apart? > > There's a Demo-like thing called Proto that happens every 6 months and > another on Innovation that's happening in Blr soon Hehehe.. not one more of "blogger king" kiruba's ventures?

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 8/2/2007 3:42 PM, sriram balasubramaniam wrote: > In other words, a closed conference for Silksters. We could think of an > invite-only list too, like TED, and charge a nominal fee to cover costs. We call it a FOU camp out here srs

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread Mahesh Murthy
Of sriram balasubramaniam Sent: 02 August 2007 15:43 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India I'm a huge fan of the TED conferences. (www.ted.com) I've been thinking of an event similar to TED that could be held in India. I contacted Udhay about t

[silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-02 Thread sriram balasubramaniam
I'm a huge fan of the TED conferences. (www.ted.com) I've been thinking of an event similar to TED that could be held in India. I contacted Udhay about this, since a guy who collects people is probably the most suited for this endeavor. Here are some thoughts: The conference lasts for 3 days All t