It has been a while since I made my last post. I posted here for a while, then lost the interest and the energy...
Well, that changed last Sunday - Thanks to the BarCamp at Technopark, Kerala. Around 100 attendees - techies and non-techies alike, gathered for a day of presentations, sessions and discussions that were interesting throughout and at times brilliantly stimulating.
I saw lots of very smart people, people with lots of energy and passion in them. And you had college students who were already running a company or two, hotshot entreprenuers, a guy who builds compilers for fun, another who led the development at Slideshare, another guy who set up a succesful venture after a lot of struggle and is now trying to bring in social change, and an evangelist from Opera. Plus there was a 70 year old farmer tuned blogger about whom a participant said- "I loved for e.g. the farmer dude who asked about iframes and its legal basis to a largely technical audience - that is a story I'll probably tell my grandchildren :-) "
If this weren't enough, you had linux fans singgering whenever somebody made the mistake of mentioning 'microsoft' :) , others happily live twittering the full event, and people (like me) who were just content with taking in everything.
The whole thing kind of rejuvenated me - almost enough to make me quit my job and go build a startup....you know the kind of moment when all sorts of grand plans rush into your head, you think revolution... (But then you wake up and find it's monday and you're late for office...)
Please visit the site to see the full list of sessions (a few of them didnt take place) and more about the event.
Of all the sessions, the one that really caught my attention was the calculation of Pi through distributed computing. While calculating Pi was an admirable end in itself, the fact that the distributed computing thing ran entirely on the browser ( in an elegant, simple way) just blew me away. I'm still thinking about how you could take that model and implement it elsewhere, but I'm pretty sure there are huge possibilities in it.
More on all this very soon.....
Btw, this is the presentation on calculating Pi
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