Sunday, July 08, 2007

3rd Barcamp Pune

Held at Persistent Systems, Pune on July 7th, 2007 http://barcamp.org/BarCampPune. It's my first ever barcamp, found it interesting and useful.

A real brief of the sessions I have attended

- First session was on online TV guide for Indian television by codewalla.com. These guys were one of the event sponsors. It was a nice and interactive session and they seem to got a good and useful feedback from the room.

- Rapid prototyping with PyQt: To demo something quickly, choose a set of tools using which one can directly start working on the demo rather worrying about the intricacies of using the tools themselves. As per the speaker, python bridges the semantic gap between what we want to develop and what python as a tool has to offer.

- Open Source Education: Freeman Murray, presented his work in promoting open source education for school children in India. He captures lectures from good teachers and makes copies of those media and distributes them across other schools with the aim of improving the quality of education.

- Registering companies: This topic is presented by a lawyer who works for a consultancy. As per him its better to register a company with US due to various reasons/benefits, bureaucracy, taxation, time delays, service, respect/brand name etc.

- Tools for Startups/small teams: This was slightly offbeat, ended up being discussing the tech sites to read/watch daily for news updates, tools required/used for tracking reported issues, efficiently tying things associated with issues, managing resources etc

This session resulted in the following pic



















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