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BCB4 Collectives
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These collectives propose to get together at Barcamp. Follow the links to read more or join one. If you're not sure you want to spend your time at BCB4 with any of them, you may start a new collective -- just add to the bottom of the list.
Available space at the venue will be allocated to collectives based on the collective's size and the resources required.
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Technology Collectives
Mobile Collective
The Mobile Collective will spend two days geeking out on portable connectivity and its implications, hopefully with lots of input from the Mobile Mondays folks. Topics of interest include: Mobile Search Shootout - Yahoo vs Google vs Zook.in vs who else? What's a dev to target? SMS vs GPRS/WAP vs mobile apps. Mobile payments - when will they be ubiquitous and by whom? Indian Twitter competitors? Mobiles and bottom of the pyramid users - how are they making a difference?
Internet Collective
Adobe AIR, Google Gears, Web 3.0, Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaFX, Dojo (Moved to AJAX), Microformats, SOA, REST, JSON, Javascript ... duhhhhh! All of these are gonna be there... Where are you going to be?
Are you the "Geek GOD" everyone has been seeking for their salvation? Or are you the "Know-it-all Guru" ? Come prove your self to be the "UberGeek", share your knowledge and enlighten everybody. Be there.
You are invited even if you are a very simple internet loving chap, or just wanna learn more about the latest in the internet world. :P
Search engines as the most important tool while navigating through the 3w should also be a focus within these collective?! - Yes exactly. We can discuss about a evolving open source alternative search engine here.
Free and Open Source Software
Lets discuss about Free and Open Source Software in India and its improvement and awareness among the people
Read more or register for Free and Open Source Software »
Content Management Systems Collective
This collective is for all those who want to explore the world of content management systems. Whether you are programmer working on a CMS or you are a manager/webmaster struggling with loads of docs on your website. This collective is for you. Even if you are not sure whether to use CMS or not, you can still drop in.
Programming Languages and Compiler Design
This is a sub-collective for all the geeks who are passionate about design and evolution of programming languages. So if you are into this business or if it is you hobby, this forum is for you all. Lets all discuss our ideas of current languages, how we can enrich them with more libraries or is there any new way of profiling. Its a place to share all. We can discuss about how can contribute for language development and compilers by bangalore community and simultaneously learn more about them.
Read more or register for Programming language and Compiler design»
Developer Collectives
BangPypers
The BangPypers propose to hold their BangPyCon within BCB4. This will be a single track on both days exclusively dealing with the Python programming language.
Bangalore Open Java User Group
We are a group of Java developers in Bangalore, engineers (to say the least) we hope to create a thriving Java community in Bangalore. Java being open sourced is easily one of the greatest piece of news in recent memory for us developers. Now, Java will be adopted even more widely than it was. Part of being open source means to build communities. Communities of developers,users, experts and beginners, which are needed for the greater adoption of Java. These communities are the life-line of any open source product, and as users, it is our responsibility to strengthen Java's life-line.
Ruby Collective
The Bangalore Ruby User Group is getting together at BCB4 to discuss the Ruby programming language and related topics like JRuby, IronRuby and Ruby on Rails. What's cool, what's not and why most people in the software industry can expect to work on at least one (and probably much more than one) Ruby project in the next two years.
BangAJAX Collective
BangAJAX is a collective which aims to share, learn and teach ajax programming language. It requires NO prior knowledge or experience, we would start from scratch.
The aim to give a big picture as well as indept knowledge about how to use ajax, what ajax can do for you and how can you application benefit from AJAX.
We would have tracks keeping in mind all sets of people from begineers to experts to Non-techies. It is more of a workshop, where you get to see and get things done.
For rest of the interesting notes, please attend BangAJAX collective!!!!
Buffer OverFlows & Code Injection
It can be done in any language, but let's stick to C coz it's the simplest. It's about one basic statement in computer's ---> It doesn't understand the difference between data & code. All who want to understand the vulnerabilities reported by g33ks around the around about stack / heap overflows and want to try it out practically. It's one of those topics where you can't get a ready made program, copy and paste and run it. No every time you find something on the net, it might have already been fixed. So each time you are able to run a successful overflow, it's pure pleasure in itself :). That's what makes it different from all other stuff on programming languages. So I believe this should a new collective. It's not language specific. Same can be done with JavaScrpit too :).
BandFun Collective
How about a collective for all those functional language lovers? Talks related to Lisp, Smalltalk, Haskell, Erlang, Oz, ML, Scheme, etc. and other functional languages hold a place here.
Sysadmins Collective
In here we gather to swap practices deemed best at ensuring a peaceful nap in the afternoon. Who wants to go around having to fix things all the time anyway?
PHP collective
A collective dedicated to PHP for the PHP users, by the PHP users. For the uninitiated drop by to understand the HOWs and WHYs of PHP being the driving force behind some of the worlds most trafficked sites, some of the worlds best wikis, CMSes, forums, etc.
Startups Collective
A collective for all people interested in startups, people working for startups, people interested in starting startups and people interested in helping startups start up. (Of course VC's too to keep a tab on whats hot).
Enterprise Collectives
FOSS in the Enterprise Collective
This collective intends to bring together folks who are trying to apply FOSS tools in the corporate world. The idea is to get people together to share experiences and possibilities. The focus for this collective is applied technology and the possibilities, than purely the techy side of it.
Special interests collectives
Gizmofreaks collective
Own a latest Gizmo and want to show it off? Came across a cool gizmo that left you drooling? Head to straight to the Gizmo freaks collective where we discuss what's hot and what's not in the gadget/gizmo space. The emphasis is on showcasing how you can exploit your gadget. The gadget doesn't have to be the latest. You can even showcase how you exploit your aging Palm III or even a Nokia 3310!!! Cell phones, MP3 players, Cameras, Digital Cameras, Portables, Camcorders, USB devices, laptops and anything else. Come and be shocked by the passions and the learning you will take away! You don't necessarily need to be a gadget guru, you only need to be in excited gizmos.
Photo Collective
Based on discussions at BCB3, we're having a photo collective aimed at making the most of your cameraphones and point and shoot cameras (SLRs also welcome, but digital only). This collective will spend a few hours on the first morning on an interactive discussion and the rest of both days on actual photography, whether within other sessions or outside. The collective will meet again the second evening to discuss results. We'll also have an exhibition and photo contest going.
Bloggers Collective
Blogging has become part of everyone's life today.
There are various kinds of Blogs:
Personal - Writings on personal interests/life etc. Collective - Group Blogs for a common purpose Corporate - Writings on Corporate happenings/new product or service launch etc. Topical - Specific interest Blogs (Photography, Music, Technology, Society etc) Spam - Created by computer programs automatically to advertise products/services.
Blog'A'loreans are group of Passionate Bangalore Bloggers (Students, Lawyers, Advertising Professionals, Social Enthusiasts, Technology Professionals etc) who are marking a difference to the idea of Blogging. We have met for the first time on the 7 July 2007 and we are meeting again on the 21 July 2007 to bring our thoughts together with mutual interests.
During BarCamp 4 we will be spending two days to brainstorm our interests and come out with a common agenda to make blogging more productive and meaningful.
If you want to learn, write and share our passion (can be in any topic), come to BarCamp and add spice to Blog'A'loreans :)
Few theam's which would definitely be addressed during the camp are:
1) Discuss and learn about technology that are a must for blogger's - particularly complete non techie bloggers.
2) We'd try to find answers to Qs like, "What topics we could blog about;" How to reach out to non blogging community, helping unheard voices be heard;"
3) We'd also be doing live blogging of the event right from the venue. Blogger's interested in doing this please get in touch with the Collective lead.
User Interface Design & Usability Collective
This collective focuses clearly on how to build/evolve UI & Usability. Objective is to share and discuss practical tips, tricks, code, tutorials.
Ask yourself a few questions:
1. Dont know what Usability or UI means to an application?
2. Always wanted to effectively use SEO, crawlers, lisitngs..
3. Have you ever wondered what is a perfect CSS or color or layout?
4. Have you ever thought if the design of your application was brilliant it would take off?
5. Thought Architecting Interfaces was just relative to a person?
6. What the heck are WEB Standards?
7. And yes the best one : Mozilla and IE design & compatibility issues!
Most of all 'Do you believe that a USER is most imp part of your application'?
If answer to any of the above is yes please proceed!
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Wikis Collective
This collective intends to bring together folks who are interested in Wikis or are experienced in them.The collective would focus on Wikis - personal, corporate. The discussion would also cover the popular wiki sites - wikipedia, wikia etc.
UnBand Collective
For all you musicians out there.. Come off lets jam!
Gaming Collective
Unlike the above two, we're going to have structured fun! Join us for an hour of three of fragging and respawning at the end of day one. BZFlag or OpenArena. Bring your own mouse.
And for those who want to get started with coding and/or design of their own game ideas catch the session on 2d and 3d game design tools.
Investor$ Collective
Topics around investment options (Share market, IPO, MF, Insurance), Tax planning and tips & tricks for new and inexperienced guys. Guys feel free to add up any other related topics as well in this collective.
Bicycling in Bangalore Collective
A collective to discuss various aspects of Bicycling. Current ideas for discussion include : practicalities of riding a bike to office, choosing the "right" bike, weekend riding, touring, and designing your own bike.
Society and Government Collectives
SocialTech Collective
Picking up from where we left last time, continuing discussions towards having a full fledged event by December.
Can someone write about what is SocialTech collective is all about ? Thanks Lavanya
E-governance Collective
This Collective is being formed to discuss a specific conference on e-governance tentatively scheduled for December this year. The goal of the conference is to look at the design of E-Governance systems from the point of view of information architectures, specifications, and standards, and not just the economics and administration of the e-governance processes in place. The conference is also interested in examining the role of technologies, the infrastructure in place and the socio-political implications -- specially in the Indian context -- on the architecture and implementation of e-governance systems.
A co-conference on Science and Technology Studies in South Asia is also planned.
Other Collectives / Non-Collective sessions
BCB4 Hack night
Find more information here...
Speed Geeking
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Board of Collectives Collective
How about now and Board of Collectives? Perhaps coffee and snacks might be sponsored?!?!?!?!
Bored of Collectives Collective
It is obvious why people will want to attend this collective. If it is not obvious, then this collective will end up discussing language, semantics, grammar, punctuation, etc. If it is obvious why this collective has been formed, then we will collect and individually and collectively decide what will spontaneously happen. This collective will meet at the Cafe Coffee Day. It is hereby rumored that one of the organizers will sponsor the coffees.
Psychics Collective
It's all mysterious. Let there be candles, crystal balls, and incense sticks. Drain your cups and look at the tea leaves. Hop on one foot on a full moon night, over grass; drink water out of a brass cup, dented by a black knife. Hold a silver candle on your nose till the wax melts and you will know the answer if you are psychically tuned into us, you shall know where to find us. You don't need to register. Just apparate.
PS: Cauldrons and wands optional.
Eating out in Bangalore Collective
Lets meet up to discuss our favourite eating/hogging joints in Bangalore. Right from road side masala puri to midnight buffet on M G Road what is the place to visit and when? what is the speciality of whom? how much does it cost where? Can we break free of this monotonous sagar's and boring pizzerias?
Weekend getaways collective
Is escaping the concrete jungle on a weekend trip your mantra to start afresh the next monday? Be it to escape the boredom of work or a team building exercise with your colleagues, which are the destination where you can head to on a weekend and let your hair down? Be it Wonderla or Hogenakal falls or the good old Nandi hills lets share our experiences of having fun.
