BarCamp Kerala 9 - Sessions

[Kenney Jacob]

Friends,

BarCamp Kerala is an ad-hoc gathering rooted in the desire to share and learn in an open & friendly environment. It is an intense yet cool, event with discussions, demos, and strong interactions. The 9th edition of BarCamp Kerala (BCK9), will be held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus at Karunagapally on 14th November 2010

Registered sessions so far are listed below. If you are interested in either attending or taking a session, please register at http://www.barcampkerala.org/blog/

If you are from the media please write about this event. 

•    FOSS in Kerala - A case of inmates are running the asylum ?

  by Praseed Pai K.T.
  

  Free and Open Source Movement (FOSS) is a force to reckon with, in the modern Software Engineering world. The FOSS developers have created thousands of open source tools,libraries and applications which helps the software industry to ship their products. In Kerala , people who do not know much about software engineering are running the show and they are "irrittatingly assertive" about Free aspect of FOSS movement. This boils down to talks about Licensing , Philosophy and Advocacy. The presentation will talk about the state of the art as the presenter sees it (as of now). Then he will narrate about how relaxation of freedom component can bring wealth to our state. . The session also talk about how the presenter made some money and a change in career by bringing "dreaded" Windows programming knowlege into the GNU Linux operating system (Do not worry , i won't show any source code !) . The other title of this talk would have been "how to make a living from FOSS ?" As Amitabh Bachan said in a movie , "Meim ye nehi jantha Woh acha hai , ye acha hai. Mujh jaise vyapari sabh ko apna lethe hai ".

•    Silverlight 4

  by Shalvin P D
  

  Technology for creating cross browser, cross platform, Rich Interactive Application.

•    STUDENTREPRENEURS - the all new breed of young and exciting entrepreneurs !

  by Jibin Samuel (alias crazyjibin)
  

  While recession was taking away the jobs of many, a bunch of students yet to pass-out from college, were busy employing themselves and providing employment to a lot many others. The session focuses on a few such young turks and the businesses that made them transform lives across India. The session also sheds light into the startup situation, the way to go about it and how you can use the situation to your benefit and probably end up as the next studentrepreneur.

•    Importance of Internet Marketing

  by Ajith Sam John (AJ)
  

  The Internet has brought media to a global audience. With this media's nature of allowing consumers to research and purchase products and services at their own convenience, businesses have the advantage of appealing them, and bringing quick and better results. Will be briefing the advantages (for Corporates, Start-Ups, Freelancers, ...) and the common practices used today to market products and services online.

•    Introduction to OpenStreetMap

  by Sajjad Anwar
  

  OpenStreetMap.org is a project like wikipedia to create free maps of the entire planet. The project is totally driven by a strong community of people from all spheres of life. I found OSM in the late 2008 and we started hacking. We have been running several mapping parties to gather more people and spread the message. This would be an introduction to the project and how everyone can get contributing into it. Outline: 1. What? 2. Why? 3. How to get involved? 4. What can you do with OSM?

•    Blogging For Dollars

  by Sujith Bhakthan
  

  I would like to talk something regarding the topics which may helpful for each and every person who is doing a blog. Let us discuss and share some ideas regarding the following topics: Blogging for Dollars, Business Blogging, Case Studies, Blog promotion etc.

•    Why(i) Fi? - a Winged Wend to the World Without Weird Wires

  by Gokul C Gopinath and Abhi M Balakrishnan
  

  A sneak peek into various wireless encryption protocols, security mechanisms, analysis, hacks, attacks, attack prevention methodologies, recent security breaches cases studies etc. with live demonstrations to add spices.

•    Introduction to NLTK

  by Sreejith.S
  

  Natural Language Processing is a sub field of Artificial Intelligence.Its a research field.NLTK -- the Natural Language Toolkit -- is a suite of open source Python modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and development in natural language processing.

•    Machine Learning in Practice

  by Jaganadh G
  

  The talk aims to give an introduction to some of the concepts in Machine Learning; like document classification, recommendation, page ranking etc...

•    Quadcopter Demo

  by Prasanth P S
  

  Demo of a Quadcopter.

•    An Introduction to Wordpress Plugin Development

  by Binny V A
  

  A small introduction to plugin development in WordPress. I'll be creating a small plugin on stage and will walk everyone through the basics of how to do it themselves.

•    Web Tomorrow

  by Aravind Ajith
  

  A brief talk about HTML5/CSS3. - An overview on some of the exciting features of HTML5 which you can start using from today(Basics, The new tags) and some advanced stuff (Geo location, Offline Storage, Canvas, Video and Audio). - An introduction to HTML5 Boilerplate - Overview and some demos of CSS3, right from border radius to cool flash-like animations. If time allows, a five minute talk on Browser Wars: Current statics and predictions. (..and why IE sucks and will continue to suck even in future!)

•    E-governance

  by Jayakrishnan J Unnithan
  

  E-governance . The need to open up data in the public doamin and the power of the crowd.

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