This is exciting news! The first and foremost BarCamp is going to be held in Kerala, this November 24th. It’s probably going to be hosted at the Technopark Auditorium, Trivandrum, (actually the venue is not decided yet.) This is the first of it’s kind happening in Kerala, and I have mixed emotions regarding it.

I’m happy because it’s happening in the building, next to where I work.
Sad because, I’ll miss the usual travel and on-flight adventures.

Nevertheless, this sounds cool as this BarCamp had been in the planning for quite a long time, and if it materializes, that’s something to be happy about. (Psst..I had registered for this, an year ago.) :0

Here are the topics that are likely to be talked about.

1
Simple Game Development with Python Ruby
By Vishnu Gopal, MobME

2
OpenSocial - Mobshare Album inside orkut
ByKenney Jacob,Kenney Jacob, MobME

3
Achievable futures- Software Testing/QA
Robin Thomas, QA/Process Consulting

4
Bluetooth Remote Control Product Demo
By Hari Krishnan, Leads Technologies

5
Asterisk- Open Source Telephony Platform
By Bipin B,MobMe

6
PHP Wiz - The Easy Way!
By Sreekanth G S, Freelance Solutions Developer

7
ONP:Open Network Project
By Linoy Joseph, Angelsvista

8
Android - Google’s Open source Mobile Platform
Renjith Ramachandran

Join the Mailing List here - http://groups.google.com/group/barcampkerala

How the sessions are scheduled
24th November

• Morning: 9:30 A.M - 1:15 P.M
• Lunch 1:15 P.M - 2:00 P.M.
• Afternoon 2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Who’s blogging about it?
1. Vishnu Gopal, http://vysnu.com/log/tag/barcampkerala
2. The First BarCamp in Kerala, http://www.kenneyjacob.com/category/barcamp/
3. Renjith Ramachandran, BARCAMPKERALA, http://www.indianitforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1105#1105
4. Anith Gopal : http://www.anith.com/barcampkerala

The last camp I attended was at Chennai, Oct 6th-8th at TidelPark, where I had a session on “Blogging and SEO” and the memories are still lingering. Here are the pictures from SearchCamp Chennai if you missed it. register for Barcamp Kerala here. Photo courtesy - Shabbir Siraj