The event aims to expose IT community of Kashmir to new trends in IT and boost their technical abilities and skills, besides aiming at attracting IT communities from outside to Kashmir. We provide all the basic needs, and hope that people interested in teaching and learning in an open environment come together to share their knowledge and experience.

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Registrations are OPEN as of now. Register at BarCamp Kashmir 3rd Edition

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Recollect the previous event – BarCamp Kashmir 2nd Edition

Drupal Sprint India will have a non-stop 2 day long sprint where you can contribute by fixing bugs, writing module, documenting upcoming Drupal 7 or helping us in translating Drupal to local Indian languages.

Leading the Drupal documentation sprint is Addison Berry, lead of Drupal documentation project. So, if you are a technical writer or you are interested in documenting the best Open source CMS in the world, this is your chance to work with the real experts and learn a trick or two.

For those who love to code, we will have a large gathering of Drupal programmers around the country who will focus on improving upcoming Drupal 7 release by fixing bugs or migrating modules to Drupal 7. Those of you who love to code for Drupal, this is your chance to contribute and gain karma.

But that is not all. We have few things in store for the non-geeks, who love Drupal for its flexibility and extensive nature. Parallel to sprints, we will be holding talks and workshops to showcase case studies of successful Drupal implementation as well as we will showcase Drupal’s capabilities beyond a CMS. We will showcase Drupal’s ability to integrate with third party softwares such as a CRM, as well as Drupal’s capability to integrate with third party services such as social networking wesbite. So, if you are planning to use Drupal for your next big venture, this is the event for you. Come and meet the best Drupal brains in the country.

So book your calender for October 30-31 2009 and join us at Bhaskaraharya Pratishthan in Pune to be a part of the biggest Drupal event in India ever! And yes, do not forget to register for the event, it will take few minutes only but it will help us in organizing things.

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Event Update

Drupal Sprint India 2009 took place at Bhaskaraharya Pratishthan in Pune. It started at 10 in the morning on 30th October and continued till evening (6pm) of 31st October. 32 hours of non-stop coding, theming, documentation (as the event progressed through the night of 31st October too). It was all fun with lots of happening around Drupal. Parallel to the event, talks / sessions / workshops were organised for the interested people. The overall contribution to the community can be summed like this :

1. Around 10 talks were presented.

2. 2 new modules were developed.

3. 4 modules were upgraded from D6 to D7.

4. 1 new theme was developed.

5. Many pages of documentation were written.

Overall impression of the sprint in Add1sun’s words, “The event was much better than i have attended.”

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The ICT EXPO was organized at SKICC on 8-9 October 2009. ICT Expo, a trade show cum conference,  was intended to kick-start work on the Association’s roadmap. The event was organised in a trade show cum conference format and discussions were held about the role of ICTA, private ICT businesses, ICT consultants, and that of the government in promoting the ICT sector in the state. There were a good mix of people from (1) ICT Entrepreneurs From the State, (2) Government Officials,  and (4) ICT Consultants from the State.

The event was attended by Hon’ble Chief Minister of the State, Mr. Omar Abdullah and Hon’ble Minister for IT, Mr. Aga Rohullah Mehdi. Speaking on the event, the Hon’ble Chief Minister said that an integrated IT park will be setup in the valley. The CM said the government had received “expressions of interest” from a number of non-resident Kashmiris who wanted to come back and take part in infrastructure development projects. The CM said there were plenty of projects in the pipeline and ample investments coming into this area. “There is an investment of roughly Rs 150 crores in three projects, viz. SWAN, Data Centre and Common Service Centre.”

The chairman of ICTA, Jahangir Raina said there was lack of awareness about the Information and Communications Technology in J&K and “addressing it is the basic reason behind forming this association.”

Speaking on the occasion, the Minister for IT, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi said that IT projects worth Rs 150 crores are being implemented in the state with main focus to give priority to the local entrepreneurs. He minister said the idea behind implementing these projects is to provide better linkage between the offices. “These projects will enable the common people to have access to any information related to the government or non governmental organizations or about the private sectors like airlines, tour operators etc,” he said. “I invite locals to take up all the projects available with our department. I believe that once the local people are encouraged then the employment will naturally be followed,” he added.

This was followed by a Q&A session where visitors asked questions to the Hon’ble Chief Minister and other panelists about the ICT issues.

Post lunch, BizComp 2009 – an event to promote youth entrepreneurs in the state, was held. This included presentations from the five finalists for this competition, followed by voting by the audience as well as judges. Five cool concepts were presented by the presenters.

1. Book Me a Room – an idea to provide complete room booking system to the valley which will cover all hotels, houseboats, guest houses etc.
2. Gepouch – a business idea to use GPS for flight scheduling, weather monitoring etc
3. JASI – an idea to provide customized accounting systems to micro businesses.
4. Grid Computing – an idea to provide cost effective grid computing services to valleyites.
5. Publicist – an idea to promote brands and provide PR services using PR.20 medium.

Out of these five finalists, Book Me a Room was declared winner and a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000 was awarded to him for put his idea on work alongwith 6 months mentoring for the product by ICTA as well as Mercy Corps.

Overall the experience at the Expo was good. They were able to fetch a good number of quality visitors including professionals, govt officials, students and budding entrepreneurs.

BarCamp Kashmir is a community driven technology event on the spirit & philosophy of BarCamps. It is an event motivated by the desire of learning by sharing. It is a place where the IT fraternity of Kashmir gets together to discuss/rant/brainstorm/share opinions about Technologies, Trends, Mobile Internet, Hacking, Blogging, Programming, Web, anything about the technology that interests. The event aims to expose IT community of Kashmir to new trends in IT and boost their technical abilities and skills, besides aiming at attracting  IT communities from outside to Kashmir.

All major IT companies of Kashmir participate in the event and talk about technology. Leading experts from the industry share their experiences with the fellow campers to make them aware of the industry best practices as well as emerging trends in IT. The event attempts to bring together professionals from all specialities of IT to a single platform.

This event does not belong to any commercial entity and is purely a community effort. Target of the event is to foster communication between IT users and professionals in Kashmir and bring them together in the form of a community.

Date & Venue

14th of March, 2009. Gandhi Bhawan, University of Kashmir

Register

http://www.barcampkashmir.com

Join the discussion

http://groups.google.com/group/barcampkashmir

Event Photos

Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehsanquddusi/sets/72157615368177326/

Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehs4n/sets/72157615439667955/

Event Videos

Blip.tv  – http://blip.tv/file/1893548

Blip.tv – http://blip.tv/file/1891643

To join in on the community discussion about BarCamp Delhi, check out the BarCamp Delhi Google Group. You can also follow BarCamp Delhi on Twitter. If you’re tweeting about BarCamp Delhi 6, then please use the hashtag #bcd6.

Event details

DATES: 28th Feb & 1st Mar 2009
VENUE: Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Register

To register for the event, please visit BarCamp Delhi registration page.

Postal Address

Mehrauli Road
Sukhrali,
Gurgaon – 122007
INDIA
Tel – +91.124.2349831-36, 4013050-59

Driving directions and RouteMap

Web: Visit www.routeguru.com, Fill destination as: Management Development Institute
SMS: rg source location to bcd6 (to 56767)
e.g, rg lajpat nagar to bcd6

Date & Venue

March 01, 2009 1PM Onwards at IIT Delhi

Prizes

1. Best (on-spot) Module development
2. Best (on-spot) theme development

Organizers

Mayank Kumar +919999109525
Vivek Khurana 9868512000

Register / Volunteer / More details

For registration, volunteering, more details visit Delhi Drupal Meetup website at http://www.lug-iitd.org/Delhi_Drupal_Meetup

The fundamental idea is to have all parts of the innovation ecosystem interact with each other with high frequency and through rich conversation. We strongly believe that this would lead to faster evolution of the entire ecosystem.

Delhi is going to have its maiden event of Startup Saturday scheduled on December 13, 2008 at American Center, KG Marg, New Delhi.

Update : Next event of Startup Saturday Delhi will be held on February 14, 2009 from 2pm till 6pm at the American Center in New Delhi.

Registrations are now open for Startup Saturday Delhi. Security will be tight so anyone interested in attending, should register in advance. All attendees should also bring photo id with them. Attendees will not be allowed into the building without photo id.

• Register for OSScamp Pantnagar
• Add a talk at the OSScamp Pantnagar
• View a list of Talks for OSScamp Pantnagar

Note:The weather at Pantnagar in the month of February can be very chilly, please carry sufficient woolen clothes to keep you warm all around the clock.

Attendees are strongly encouraged to give a demo, a session, or help with one. You can help by taking notes on the wiki, blogging about the event, helping to promote the event, or helping with logistics. This is a community event and every body needs to do something.

A special focus will be on students guidance and career explorations. Students undergoing training in IT and allied fields are welcome to take an advantage of this unique opportunity. IT companies of the valley shall be coming together at one place and talking about technology.

Camp KashIT is a 100% Non-Profit/Community even. This even does not belong to any commercial entity. This event belongs to everyone. Target of this event is to make growth of IT community possible around this event.

This is the first ever camp going to be held in Kashmir. In future, this event will take place around 2-3 times every year. Providing a common platform to share ideas, goals and vision for Kashmiri IT fraternity.

If you are associated with IT in any way, please do make it a poit come. Let’s make this even as inclusive as possible. People from all fields of Kasmir IT industry are welcomed be it hardware, software, infrastructure or consumers.

See you there Insha Allah.

Event details

Date & Venue
Sunday February 24th, 2008
Government College of Education
M.A. Road, Srinagar 190001

Website

http://barcamp.org/CampKashIT200802
If you plan to come, please put your name on the campers list at the website. This will help us in estimating lunch/tea requirements. You are also free to give a talk on any topic. Just put the topic and your name in ‘Sessions, Talks and Presentations’ section.

Mailing List

http://groups.google.com/group/camp-kash-it
Please joing the mailing list to keep in touch with other memebers and to keep yourself updated about latest happenings.

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp