Yesterday I went to the first Kerala BarCamp. It was held at Techno Park, Trivandrum. I had to travel 225 kilometers to attend it – and it was totally worth it!
Sessions
Open Social
By Kenney Jacob
About the new OpenSocial API provided by Google. The talk was concentrated on its application on Orkut – as it is the most popular social networking site here.
Game Development in Ruby
By Vishnu Gopal
This session was about creating small 2D games in Ruby using the ‘Gosu’ library. You can get a small sample game he created for this session at N3wton Google Code
Home Automation using Bluetooth
Using your mobile phone as an universal remote for all applications within your home.
Asterisk
By Bipin
Asterisk is a Open Source software PBX(Private branch exchange)
QT
By Dhaneesh and Dev
Using QT Designer to create GUI applications.
Computer Memory Based on Bacteriorhodopsin
By Jidhu
A new way of storing information – by changing the state of a protein. This is done by shining a different colour light on the protein. It is much faster and cheaper than the fastest RAMs available today. Also, it is non-volatile – so it can be as both the HardDisk and as the RAM. I found this the most interesting of all session.
Open Network Project
By Linoy Joseph
A implementation of a mesh style open network.
Android
by Renjith Ramachandran
Developing mobile application using the Android SDK provided by Google. The presentation showed us how to do it using Eclipse.
PHP Wiz
by Sreekanth G S
A small introduction to PHP and Web Application Development.
The People
The best part of the camp is the people you meet. I met a lot of people who I only knew only through the internet. Some of the people I met…