I am here at the CodeCampMumbai and we are hitting our keyboards real hard at this time in the night(2:00am). It’s 8 of us here still remaining and the enthusiasm is contagious. Me and Pavan are sitting in the balcony with our laptops while Deepak, Kurund, Ankur, Fenil, Latesh and Varun are sitting inside. It’s chilly out here and you have the balmy breeze making us feel comfortable all the time. We can hear birds chirping even at this time in the night.
It feels sublime and I feel I should enjoy the moment and the code and not blog about it now ;)
‘Jaagte raho’ is hindi for ‘Keep Awake’
We would be blogging live from CodeCampMumbai. You can follow us Live@ CodeCampMumbai. Looking forward for the event tomorrow.
Which reminds me I need to have a good night’s sleep before the event. It will be an all nighter at IIT Bombay. Join the fun or do pay us a visit ;)
Oh! did I tell you all about the Paintathon I had taken part in? No. « wondering how could I forget of blogging about it » Shame me :|
Remember I was in Ahmedabad in August? There I spent most of my time at Prayas’ place. Some of his paintings adorned his walls and there were others lying in his studio. We also took time out to visit School of Architecture and hang around the campus for lunch. Laxmikant had also come down for the post-production of his film. So art was the flavour of the month. I have always been curious about various forms of art because of the obvious influence of my bro. Painting on a canvas was something completely new for me and I was game for it.
A couple of days before I was supposed to leave for Mumbai, I asked Prayas if we could paint. Felt like he was all ready for it and he was just waiting for me to prompt. He hadn’t had a brush with painting for a long time now. He said lets take part in a Paintathon. “Wow Paintathon sounds cool,” I exclaimed. I was thinking, Marathon… Hackathon and now Paintathon. Next I remember we went out to get a some canvases and extra colors and brushes.
For the Paintathon, we reserved the morning of the day I was supposed to leave for Mumbai. You can read up on how the events unfolded at Manjushree’s blog.
Here are some of the pics:
Here are the finished paintings:
Prayas:
Manjushree:
Akshay (my):
For inquiries to buy and order use the contact form. Offer till stocks last. ;)
Look at the complete album here:
Updated the links to the pictures
[FlashBack-Cut-1] Little less than a month back Ankur and me had a couple of mail exchanges over how we should try and bring the hacker/developer community together.
[FlashBack-Cut-2] During the closing session of BarCampMumbai2 there were some participants who were not satisfied with the technical depth of the sessions at the BarCamp. I took this opportunity and quickly created a simple CodeCampMumbai page on the barcamp wiki and announced the event on the stage.
[Present-Cut-3] Thus, emerged CodeCampMumbai and a format which is heavily influenced by some popular philosophies.
Here is what we have taken from other popular manifestos/cultures:
CodeCamps:
- By and For the Developer Community
- No Fluff – only Code
Read more: CodeCamp Manifesto
Hackathons:
- Race against time (24 hours)
- Do something cool/complex/brainy
Read more here, here and here.
BarCamps:
- Share and learn in a open environment
- No Spectators. Only Participants.
Read more here.
In short:
CodeCampMumbai caters to the community of CodeCampers, bound by the culture of Hackathons and is based upon open participative and collaborative nature of BarCamps.
Date:: 17th - 18th Nov 2007
Register here:: http://barcamp.org/CodeCampMumbai
Venue:: IIT-B Mumbai
Mailing list:: http://groups.google.com/group/codecampmumbai
If you love to code and code for the love of it you ought to be present. See you there ;)
