Mar Athanasios College For Advanced Studies ( MACFAST ) , Tiruvalla hosted the 8th Barcamp Kerala On March 28th 2010. The Number of attendees for barcamp was lower than last time due to various factors like Hosana Sunday , the Railways Issues and also the exams… . The Venue was exceptionally good .. MacFast Really Has a great Infrastructure .
The first session by Deepak on Statistical Machine Translation was awesome. It covered the Base of translation Technique in a simple
and understandable way . It was the Best session in the Whole Barcamp Kerala 8 !!. The Mobile web by Shwetank Dixit was next. Shwetank was a representative of Opera. He talked about the technology trends and market stats of the mobile web.. and also about the latest standards in web like HTML5
The session about Spara was bit of an disappointment for the concept of Barcamp. Only attraction was the presenter but she too was married. I suggest even if you are just promoting a product try attending the barcamp in full .. coming in at 11am , taking a session immediatly and leaving as soon as it is over doesn’t sync with the Barcamp spirit. Do Better Next Time Artin Dynamics.. and next time please don’t break the guidelines of Barcamp Kerala “Presentations promoting specific commercial products or companies are discouraged.”
Aravind Jose showed a video about the future of web in kerala and his session comprised of the his forseeing of web in kerala for next 20 months. I’m skipping the short session i took.. i know it wasnt that great !!! The “No Negative Day” by Fahad Mether sounded like a good cause by quitting negative things in life for one day in a month. Really dont know how this will shape into. between .. it is observed 24th of every month.
Alan Haggai Alavi took a session on Perl. He is an expert on Perl. he tried to make it as simple as possible .. Even though he gave a good idea about perl the session lacked some examples which could have made the session more interesting.
It was the First Time We had food being sponsored for Barcamp. Thanks to MACFAST for the Lunch. As usual it was time for more informal tech talks and interactions in the Lunch Time.
“How to Start up” by Adv. Ivin Gancius gave an about starting a firm and various other factors like taxation, registrations, trademarks, patents etc… As usual Kenney Came up with a social concern.. this time “Marriages”… He talked about the evolution of various marriage systems existing and that has existed in the society. and as usual it got heated up in the due course.. it killed sleep of many attendees . .. Niju Mohan talked about his expereinces on TATA Jagriti Yatra. He shared his experience of the journey with the photographs and videos too.
Reni Yohanan took a half cooked session on Network security . The tried to discuss the various kind of threats and attacks in a network. Social Media Recruitment by Ajith Sam John had real substance in it . He talked about the recruitment through the social medias. The session reminded the attendees about the importance of updating ones profile in these websites and the concept of keeping the profile “clean”. Arun Basil Lal discussed about creating a website using wordpress …installation of wordpress, plugins, themes…. etc etc etc.
Binny VA discussed about the eNGO Product Launch. how he plans to launch it and also about its name change to TENads …Thanks a lot to Macfast for the evening Tea. The tea session is an oppurtunity for informal talks and discussions on various social issues and thrashing Manorama.
alltogether a good day at Barcamp.. !!!
Video taken by Aravind Jose
BCK8 (89 photos)
28 March 2010
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ha. . . ..nice and short review of the camp
Artin is one of the fastest growing startups from kerala in kerala. Hopefully next time, they will sync with the barcamp culture as you said. 
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