Bar Camp in Jan 2007?
elfgoh
My name is Goh Lu Feng. You can call me from Lu Feng. I'm part of the
Students' Interest Group, linuxNUS.
I was chatting with Chandra and we are toying with the idea of getting
a Bar Camp going next year (less than a month away). Will 20 Jan 2007
(2nd saturday of the semester) be a good day?
Do advise on details that need to be taken care of.
Regards,
Lu Feng
Steve Ming Yeow Ng
that is a good idea! Think december was too packed. I can get a
venue in town, big open room, and with refreshments. At ntuc center.
:) otherwise, smu or nus could be good too!
M
--
Mobile: +65 82880494
MSN: nm...@hotmail.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mingyeow
Globalization and SAAS Blog: http://www.mingyeow.com
Chandra Raghavan
>
> Hi folks!
>
> that is a good idea! Think december was too packed. I can get a
> venue in town, big open room, and with refreshments. At ntuc center.
> :) otherwise, smu or nus could be good too!
>
NTUC Centre sounds good! About the refreshments... Will NTUC sponsor 'em?
On a related note, lets ask the p&g/yahoo follks (from the digital
movement event) to sponsor the event!
> M
>
> On 12/14/06, elfgoh <elf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > My name is Goh Lu Feng. You can call me from Lu Feng. I'm part of the
> > Students' Interest Group, linuxNUS.
> >
> > I was chatting with Chandra and we are toying with the idea of getting
> > a Bar Camp going next year (less than a month away). Will 20 Jan 2007
> > (2nd saturday of the semester) be a good day?
> >
> > Do advise on details that need to be taken care of.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Lu Feng
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Mobile: +65 82880494
> MSN: nm...@hotmail.com
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mingyeow
> Globalization and SAAS Blog: http://www.mingyeow.com
>
> >
>
--
And why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Singapore cell : +65-90701459
Harish Mallipeddi
On 12/14/06, Steve Ming Yeow Ng <ming...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> that is a good idea! Think december was too packed. I can get a
> venue in town, big open room, and with refreshments. At ntuc center.
> :) otherwise, smu or nus could be good too!
>
NTUC Centre sounds good! About the refreshments... Will NTUC sponsor 'em?
On a related note, lets ask the p&g/yahoo follks (from the digital
movement event) to sponsor the event!
It would be nice to have industry folks participating in the event. Seriously no one wants to listen to 20 amateur geeks like me :)
Chandra Raghavan
> It would be nice to have industry folks participating in the event.
> Seriously no one wants to listen to 20 amateur geeks like me :)
True. I'll check if the Yahoo folks can send some developers over.
Btw, Julius, a game developer from EA should be attending and
presenting!
Julius: welcome to the group! do email us about topics you'd like to
hear about and talk about and please bring your Wii along for the
event ;)
Chandrashekar
P.S: If you know someone who'll find this interesting, please do get
them on-board.
Steve Ming Yeow Ng
funding from p&g a bit hard ah, yahoo possible. I can prob. get Ntuc
to do the refreshments. Put that down as tentative!!
redhat might be supportive - will check w em.
On 12/14/06, Harish Mallipeddi <harish.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> --
> Harish Mallipeddi
> http://poundbang.in/
Justin Lee
Chandra Raghavan
> jan 20 sounds good.. let's go... where's the wiki link?
>
http://barcamp.org/BarCampSingapore
Steve Ming Yeow Ng
"Su Yuen, Chin" <suy...@gmail.com>, "jiahui cai" <jiahu...@gmail.com>,
into the mailing list?
M
Steve Ming Yeow Ng
Julius
Great to be onboard! Count me in for the january thingy.
If any of you guys are interested in the current status of the game
industry in Singapore, or how do you get into it whatever, I will be
glad to share whatever I know to you guys.
Julius
Harish Mallipeddi
Out of curiosity, do you work in the Singapore gaming industry?
Cheers,
Harish
Arpit Rai
i love technology but unfortunately don't have the same feelings towards programming so if its going to be another discourse on programming, i think i'm gonna give it a miss.
chandra?
Chandra Raghavan
> guys, is this going to be a very technical conference? or are we discussing
> technology/trends in general?
It will be technical for sure. We're looking at discussing topics like
Ruby on Rails, Django, .NET on Linux and so on. A fair amount of
programming WILL happen at the event. That said, the event will not be
focused only on programming.
General discussions/presentations on technology trends will happen
too. We'll talk about stuff like Pinko Marketing, the Cluetrain
manifesto, internet marketing in general, blogging, blogging trends,
gaming, PR and advertising within games and so on.
One final note: Creative programming is not about creating mundane,
repetitive outsource-able code. It is like creating a painting with
the right tools...an art. I believe Barcamps are about collaborative,
creative programming.
Julius
Yes, I am acutually a software engineer in a game company called
Electronic Arts Asia Pacific, which is based in Singapore.
We work on playstations, xbox and pc etc and deliver games for the
Asian market.
With regards to meetings, I do think that technical meetings will be a
bit on the boring side. Sharing of personal experiences seems more
interesting!
Julius
> --
> Harish Mallipeddi
> http://poundbang.in/
>
> ------=_Part_98237_518792.1166267802140
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> X-Google-AttachSize: 1501
>
> Hi Julius,<br><br>Out of curiosity, do you work in the Singapore gaming industry? <br><br>Cheers,<br>Harish<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julius</b> <<a href="mailto:juli...@gmail.com">
> juli...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Hi guys,<br><br>Great to be onboard! Count me in for the january thingy.
> <br>If any of you guys are interested in the current status of the game<br>industry in Singapore, or how do you get into it whatever, I will be<br>glad to share whatever I know to you guys.<br><br>Julius<br><br>Chandra Raghavan wrote:
> <br>> On 12/14/06, Harish Mallipeddi <<a href="mailto:harish.m...@gmail.com">harish.m...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > It would be nice to have industry folks participating in the event.<br>> > Seriously no one wants to listen to 20 amateur geeks like me :)
> <br>><br>> True. I'll check if the Yahoo folks can send some developers over.<br>> Btw, Julius, a game developer from EA should be attending and<br>> presenting!<br>><br>> Julius: welcome to the group! do email us about topics you'd like to
> <br>> hear about and talk about and please bring your Wii along for the<br>> event ;)<br>> Chandrashekar<br>> P.S: If you know someone who'll find this interesting, please do get<br>> them on-board.<br><br>
> <br></a>
>
> ------=_Part_98237_518792.1166267802140--
Arpit Rai
Steve Ming Yeow Ng
M
Harish Mallipeddi
The people who will be attending are listed in the wiki (atleast that's the idea!).
Cheers,
Harish
Arpit Rai
Harish Mallipeddi
Hi Harish,
Yes, I am acutually a software engineer in a game company called
Electronic Arts Asia Pacific, which is based in Singapore.
yup I know EA - who doesn't! :)
We work on playstations, xbox and pc etc and deliver games for the
Asian market.
But people tell me that EA Singapore doesn't really do any game development here except for some localization/internationalization?
With regards to meetings, I do think that technical meetings will be a
bit on the boring side. Sharing of personal experiences seems more
interesting!
Julius
You can certainly do that. Tell us about what you work on at EA Singapore (whatever you're allowed to disclose to the public). But Barcamps have traditionally been about code. So when you share stuff, you're normally expected to dig into the technical bits and cool hacks (if any). For instance, instead of just showing pictures and demos of the games which EA Singapore had produced (I have seen people do this to a CS crowd and I think it is such a waste talking to a techie audience), you can tell us how the EA gaming engine pipeline looks like, any cool tricks that you do for performance on a particular game, yada yada :)
Julius
So you guys are into gaming? That's really cool! And I can tell you
that EA is a pretty cool place to work in if you guys are interested!
I am sure I cannot tell you guys about code and pipelines used in the
game building process, but I can sure share with you how cool the PS3,
Xbox360 devkits are;) (and of course how a jerk Sony is). In terms of
game design whatever, you are right that engineers (especially those
based in Singapore) don't really get to decide what goes into the game,
but you still get to build pipelines and codes that help the game
development:)
Let's talk more when we meet!
Julius
> ------=_Part_7353_16192876.1166433489757
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> X-Google-AttachSize: 1952
>
> On 12/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julius</b> <<a href="mailto:juli...@gmail.com">juli...@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> <br>Hi Harish,<br><br>Yes, I am acutually a software engineer in a game company called<br>Electronic Arts Asia Pacific, which is based in Singapore.</blockquote><div><br>yup I know EA - who doesn't! :) <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> We work on playstations, xbox and pc etc and deliver games for the<br>Asian market.</blockquote><div><br>But people tell me that EA Singapore doesn't really do any game development here except for some localization/internationalization?
> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">With regards to meetings, I do think that technical meetings will be a<br>bit on the boring side. Sharing of personal experiences seems more
> <br>interesting!<br>Julius</blockquote><div><br>You can certainly do that. Tell us about what you work on at EA Singapore (whatever you're allowed to disclose to the public). But Barcamps have traditionally been about code. So when you share stuff, you're normally expected to dig into the technical bits and cool hacks (if any). For instance, instead of just showing pictures and demos of the games which EA Singapore had produced (I have seen people do this to a CS crowd and I think it is such a waste talking to a techie audience), you can tell us how the EA gaming engine pipeline looks like, any cool tricks that you do for performance on a particular game, yada yada :)
> <br> </div></div>-- <br>Harish Mallipeddi<br><a href="http://poundbang.in/">http://poundbang.in/</a>
>
> ------=_Part_7353_16192876.1166433489757--