Barcamp Pune 4: The better barcamp

Barcamp Pune 4 is over!!! The event went very well, thanks to all the geeks who turned up, the volunteers from the Symbiosis family and the warm hearted people of Thoughtworks. We are proud to have conducted the fourth edition of Barcamp in Pune. We have had very interesting and quality barcamps in past and were hoping that this one will be keeping the trend alive. When I look at the Barcamp wiki I see more than one camp taking place every month in India but Barcamp Pune has successfully been able to make a distinction among all these camps. We have had the most techie focussed camps in past and this one followed the same trail. And we all are proud of the same aren't we? Pune has a big community of techies and people working on the bleeding edge of technology the good thing is that Barcamp Pune has been able to pull these guys together and provide them a platform where they share their knowledge with others.


Let me go back around 20 years and take a look at the life of a developer. It was simpler than your life isn't it? He just had to learn one or two languages and the career was rolling (you don't believe me ask any of your bosses). Let me come back to you. I am sure you all know at-least 3 languages in which you can produce code for living. But how many of you are confident that you will be able to make a career like the guys did 20 years back?? The reality is that the innovation is happening at an unbelievable rate today, oh sorry I cant fool you guys you are insiders and as insiders we know that the splurge of various technologies, languages, platforms is because of the work that people have been doing for a long time. For an outsider there are too many things happening suddenly but for an insider this is not a surprise but a time when all the things are peeking and coming together perfectly. To be successful at this time we have to make sure that we are riding on the top of the tide. It is easier said than done. It takes a lot of time and effort to be just aware of all that is happening in the technology space. A developer needs to be aware of so many things at once and not only that he should be ready to work with newer things as early as they happen. It is not easy to keep pace with the speed of innovation and ever changing world of technology, how much time do you guys get out of your project work? The pressure is enormous to deliver, where is the time for other things?

Barcamp Pune or similar events are the place that gives you a present snapshot of the world around you (or let me put it this way gives you a heavy dose of all the technology related things that you missed or are still missing). There is a learning curve in all the places so is there a leaning curve in Barcamp Pune as well. You come here and get excited about new things technologies, you go back and whenever you get time, say the code repository server is down or your manger has fallen ill you can read in details about what you learned here. You come back for the next time and you attend a workshop on the same got to learn how to code or use the technology. You go back home and run some code get your hands dirty learn few new things. You again come here and this time you share with other campers what you have learned and they will share what they learned and you will improve yourself. Isn't that great!!! I read somewhere that you retain 95% of what you share with others.

We have a very experienced Barcamp crowd in Pune but just for those who were there for the first time, let me repeat what I said at the starting session of the event that, the onus of getting best out of camp lies with you. There is a famous rule of Barcamp "Law of 2 feet" that is, you will have to use your 2 feet to walk to a place where you can learn, if you are not learning walk out of that place (no one will mind) and go to a place where you can learn or share. Meet as many people as you can and network and use this gathering of intelligent people wisely.

Barcamp Pune is greatly thankful to the people who made this camp possible first of all I would like to thank TW for their support, it is the second time that they have sponsored barcamp Pune and our experience has been really wonderful with these guys, they understand the concept and they support it whole heartedly. I hope they feel the same about us. Seriously guys it has been a very good association and we hope to continue the same in future. Our other sponsor SUN, this is the first time that they are at the Barcamp Pune, I whole heartily welcome you. I hope you had a good day and you must have noticed that Barcamp Pune is little different than other camps in India, we are more technology oriented bunch. I hope that we will continue to see you around in future camps as well. We have another sponsor Clubhack and the guys behind this have been with us from start. We can take pride that though we don't focus on Startups or Entrepreneurship we still are able to produce startups like Clubhack. I would also like to express my deep hearted thanks to my teammates who made the Barcamp a reality all those who are here and even those who were there with us in past camps. In the end I would like to thank the most important person without whom this would not have been possible and that is "you". I thank you warm heartily to make Barcamp Pune what it is and I hope you will continue to be with us.

Tags: barcamp, barcamppune, barcamppune4

Tarun Chandel
Life, Learning and Technology

Cross posted on Barcamps @ Pune blog