[OT]Opensocial Developer Garage'08 - Pune

[Rohan Dighe]

Dear All,

After PHPCamp, a few of us have been planning on an event
specifically
focused on Content Management Systems (CMS Camp) and also an event
focused on Opensocial (building apps for orkut/myspace/hi5, etc).

The Opensocial Event is named "Opensocial Developer Garage"

We at Social Web Factory have been planning long to host an event
like
this specifically focused on social web apps and current web2.0 trends
and looks like our dreams are coming true.

So, Opensocial Developer Garage'08 - Pune has a tentative date of
(20th
December'08, it's a saturday!)

Now, the idea of the event is to unite all the social web apps
developers from all over the country and just share/code/have fun and
maybe inspire a few wannabee..

The idea is not to duplicate PHPCamp (get 750+ people) but to focus
on
the genuine/interested crowd, opensocial enthusiasts or app
developers.
I really have no estimate now of how many people would come or how
everything would fall in place but i just have a feeling that this
can
be done.

The event is a free event but is an invitation only event, we will
call
for speakers as well as delegates as soon as our website is up.

My plan is to invite people from Google/MySpace/BigAdda/20 other
social
networking website owners and their developers.
We really need people to have the "WoW!!" feeling when they are at
the
event.

Venue/Sponsors are yet to be decided. I am preparing an email which
we
will send to multiple groups including expert opensocial developers
across the country and big SNS groups.

I guess that all i have for now,

The kickoff meeting to plan and organize those events is happening
this
Saturday (tomorow) , at the Level 9 Cafe, at ICC towers on S.B. Road.

Agenda for the meet would be
1) To finalize goals for both the camps
2) un-conference/ conference
3) Budgets
4) Organizers/ Volunteers
5) Strategy/Game Plan
6) Resource Allocations
7) Venue.

I am setting up the website DeveloperGarage.in and should be up soon.

Google Groups have been setup.

All the discussions regarding Opensocial Developer Garage will happen
here.

Join Up.

Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/developergarage
Group email: develop...@googlegroups.com

Thank you all for your time.

Rohan.