We are holding BarCamp Kerala 8 on March 28^th, 2010! Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages - its Barcamp time.

Hearing the word ‘barcamp’ for the first time?

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Wikipedia

Venue

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. When this post was written we have 55 attendees.

Sessions

As of yet we have 5 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still hesitant about coming to BarCamp Kerala, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• BarCamp Kerala on May 3
• First ever BarCamp in Kerala on November 24th, 2007
• Kerala BarCamp 2 – In Cochin
• BarCamp Kerala 6 : A Report
• BarCamp Time for Kerala

Campus Bloggers Meetup is scheduled to be conducted on Jan. 26, 2010 at Cochin. Many informative Session and robotics demo arranged. Every one is invited for the event. Limited seats available.!!!

Barcamp is back. Barcamp kerala 6 will happen at the serene campus of Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kakkanad on the 11th of October 2009. Barcamp is not new to Cochin, Barcamp Kerala 2& 3 were hosted by the Cochin University Campus.

For those who raise their eye brows on hearing the word bar.. Barcamp has nothing to do with drinking or bars.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There are no registration fees or any charges for a barcamp as this is a user-generated conference. You are invited to volunteer for various activities for putting up a successful camp.

BarCamp Kerala is your best chance to meetup all the coolest techies from Kerala. If you are a techie of any scale, do make it to BarCampKerala!

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Please do blog about the event and let maximum people know

ExNoRa, a non-government Chennai-based voluntary environmental service organisation, has launched a a massive Cool the Globe campaign by name, “99999 lights out” to create awareness on global warming, its causes, consequences and solutions. The campaign carries the message - switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month on the 9th year of the millennium. The aim of the 99999 Lights Out Campaign is to combat Global warming, to make people more conscious about the environment, to motivate people to reduce their respective carbon footprint, to mitigate climate change and to teach people Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness techniques.

How can you contribute?

Grow more trees. Use Energy efficient equipments. Practice transport simplicity, Switch on lights only when it is necessary, Turn off your lights when not in use. Adapt an eco-friendly lifestyle. Reduce waste & Conserve water. Trap methane and convert it as fuel.

Metro Manorama with Asian School Of business is organising WizQuiz a General Quiz competition for the degree students on the 26th of July 2009 at Tagore theatre Thiruvanathapuram.

Wiz Quiz is a Mega Quiz event in kerala which offers prizes worth Rs 3.5lakhs…

Fresh graduates can also apply for the competition..so get ready and form a team with your Quiz partner and register yourself by sending a mail in the following format to pauljoseph@mm.co.in or hashimjr@mm.co.in

Member- A- Name,class/course,Institution,contact no,Full Address

Member- B- Name,class/course,Institution,contact no,Full Address

Team mates need not be from the same college,any number of teams from a college is allowed.

wizquiz poster

Asian School of business is a prominent Business School located in Technopark Thiruvananthapuram led by prominent faculties from IIM Ahammedabad,Kolkatta,Bangalore,Calicut,university of michigan,kansas,manitoba.The board members of the business school includes prominent figures like Chris Gopalakrishnan,Dr. S Ramadorai,Prof. Samuel Paul,Prof. Prakash G Apte,G.Vijayaraghavan.

The d’day is arriving……The farewell committee has been formed with Mr.Johnson(eng dept)as the coordinator.Eleventh-ies in full action to make it a grand success!!!!!!