BlogCamp 2006

It was more than a 100 days ago, when a bunch of us got together to spend an evening reminiscent of the BarCamp days, the idea for BlogCamp was born. BlogCamp was intended to be a forum for any Tom, Dick and Harry to learn about blogging – the who’s, why’s and how’s. Initially there was skepticism on why we should have such a forum in the first place. But considering the fact that Chennai happens to be the Indian city with the largest number of bloggers amongst other things, we thought why not.

Then on, there was no looking back. We had meetings almost every weekend to discuss the progress. Things started picking up when interest started brewing amognst some corporate biggies in sponsoring the event. People poured in from all over the country to help organize the event. BlogCamp in some sense is an open source event with people helping in every little way they can and that something truly fantastic!

Ironically, my blog went down for the 2 days that BlogCamp was held due to server maintenance, which by the way was really pathetic. Instead of having to deal with it, I decided to use that as an opportunity to meet folks who had come down from all over the country. These included Dina, Peter, Neha, Jace, Om, Ravages, etc. It was fun catching up with Abhinav, Amit, Shyam, Sathish and a few others (whose names I dont know) from the BarCamp days.

‘How do you feeel now?’ was all that we had to ask in the end.

Analysis of the event to follow. Stay tuned.