Simplicity impresses like nothing else. So it did. Day 2 of the Barcamp Delhi 5 did not have a pre-set agenda. That left complexity of arrangements somewhere out in the woods. All that was left at our venue was simplicity. As expected, fewer attendees had made it out of the sunday slumber. There was no rush to fill up session slots. The registration desk was not being targeted in numbers. And everything was just going on at the Dogra Hall. There was no need for the campers to occupy multiple rooms on different floors. Everything at one place with everybody involved. .Simple.
The day kicked off with all of us squatting on the floor of the hall and getting into a discussion about blogging. It was as informal and un-conference as it could get. Soon it was time for the sessions to begin. First to go on the floor was this talk about gaining control over your mind. The next person on the floor was not known to anybody. He had just arrived in India and was invited to the Barcamp Delhi only the night before. He is Fabian Rodriguez - an Ubuntu Systems Senior Support Analyst from Canada. What he brought along was a really good fact file about Ubuntu.
Piyush finally got to do his talk on why its difficult for entrepreneurs to find life partners. What are the challenges, perceptions and ground realities. This one was very well received and the audience participation might be just second next to Pankaj Jain’s talk on the current economic scenario. There were a few more towards the end of the day. Details about them will be shared in subsequent posts.
Just an interesting fact from Google Trends. The text “Barcamp” has been searched most from India, and the top 4 cities happen to be from India. Isn’t that an indicator of how this culture is fast spreading into the net savvy population at least.
No seeds. No leaves. No branches. No stems. As the title suggests. Nothing “Tree”ky about this Barcamp. Simple.
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