MBC Rasta

Its back again this summer ti serve cool tech beverages to cut down the heat — “Barcamp Kerala 8”

BarCamp Kerala 8 is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on March 28^th, 2010 BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Venue

BCK 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. So far we have 55 attendees.

Sessions

So far we have 5 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions , you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

At the rock competition held in summer 2009 at Muenster, they were the unchallenged winners of the prestigious rock award of the city of Muenster.After touring several countries in Europe and hitting the best – seller charts throughout the year, the BLACK RUST is now going to blow over Kerala.

So all Rock freaks get ready to catch the show live on Friday, the 19th of February 2010 at 6.30pm at the Nishagandhi open air theatre, Trivandrum. This rockshow is being organized by the German language and cultural centre Goethe-zentrum with the friendly support from Allianz Technopark, Srilankan Airways and Rosebowl

There is no Entry Fee for this rock show

Stark Communications Pvt Limited a leading Advertising Agency with offices in Trivandrum, Cochin, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and Sharjah is looking for Freshers/Experienced for the following Posts.

• Account Supervisor
• Senior Client Servicing Executives (For Trivandrum Office)
• Client Servicing Executives (Trainees) (For Trivandrum Office)

Salary levels vary from Rs.10,000/- (for freshers) to Rs.30, 000/- per month based on numbers of years of experience. Also do note that Salary level wouldn’t be a constraint in case of very senior candidate.

Detailed Job Description :

Account Supervisor

• Four plus years of experience
• Should independently handle a basket of accounts
• Will be responsible for client interfacing, management and retention
• Should ensure quality service to the client in a day to day basis within the deadlines
• Should accurately provide client briefs, inputs and feedbacks to the internal team
• Should be able to generate more business from existing clients
• Excellent presentation skills
• Should be able to lead a team of 3 or 4 persons

Senior Client Servicing Executives

• Three plus years experience in advertising with good communication skills
• Should be capable of independently understanding the clients requirements including
  • Management of projects from signature to execution
  • Managing high profile client relationships
• Good interpersonal skills & a team player

· MBA’s preferred / graduates with more than 3 years experience

Client Servicing Executives (Trainees)

Campus Bloggers Meetup is scheduled to be conducted on Jan. 26, 2010 at Cochin. Many informative Session and robotics demo arranged. Every one is invited for the event. Limited seats available.!!!

21st December 2009, Kottayam: Yesterday was the day of yet another BarCamp in Kerala. Kerala has grabbed the title for conducting the most number of barcamps in India in a year in the last 2 years. The event which sees the community of entrepreneurs, IT professionals, students and business mentors come together in a platform and share their views on their favorite topics was conducted yesterday at the auditorium of Kristu Jyothi College in Chengnasherry, Kottyam.

The remote location of the BarCamp did not deter the 100 odd attendees who came in through interesting ways like carpooling from Trivandrum, Cochin and Calicut and hitchhiking from nearby places. “I cannot believe that this is a event which is organized online totally and even the organizers meet only on the day of the event.” said the first time barcamper Jobi John who is a student in USA currently on his vacation in Kerala.

The sessions of the morning were:

1. BARCAMP KERALA : Kevin Babu – An introduction to BarCamps and its history in Kerala.
2. 2. 3D GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING : Praseed Pai – Introduction to graphics programming and the mathematic equations involved.

3. Building Complex Website the Drupal Way : Fredrik Jonsson – An enlightening session by this Swedish programmer who explained the usage of Drupal for building websites easily and customizing them.
4. Media and Freedom-Kenney Jacob – A debate and argument filled session on how the Old Media is threatened by the New Media and how dangerous is the media corporates with a hidden agenda.

This was followed by a lunch break and a Christmas cake sponsored by the digital marketing firm ayruz web holdings was distributed. This added a special touch to the event in this festive seasion.

Noon sessions

5. Recycling Old Computers using LTSP- By VU2SWX – A thought provoking session which helped attendees to find out new ways of using their old powerless computers as nodes and utilizing it effectively.

6. Innovation-”The UST Global Way”-Harikrishnan Nair -  A session on the importance of events like barcamps and how UST Global encourages innovation in their work culture.

7. Multi Monitor Machines by Binny V A – The advantages of using more than one monitor with your desktop and its disadvantages was shown by Binny VA who uses 3 monitors at his home in Linux.

8. Device management in modern Linux system by Unnikrishnan

The day was winded up with a wonderful discussion led by Mr. Kenney Jacob on the existing conditions for a new startup to bloom in Kerala. This discussion saw entrepreneurs share their troubles, their reason for “starting-up” and about funding and investment.

The Principal  of the MACFAST college  Fr. Abraham Mulamoottil gave a mindblowing talk on startups and his personal appreciation to all entrepreneurs and his open invitation to mentor new business ideas.

In all, the event was an experience all student startups appreciated, an experience for them to learn from those who have been successful and those who have failed.

The next Barcamp got scheduled at MACFAST.The session winded up at 6.15 pm.