Entries tagged “event”

Monday, November 15, 2010

HasGeek

In August this year, I started working on a conference around HTML5. DocType HTML5 went live on October 9 with 200 participants, out of over 450 applicants. The event was the first coming out of a concept I had been toying with since the middle Barcamp Bangalore period in 2007. DocType HTML5 was an unexpected success. None of us thought it would go off as well as it did. Until two weeks before the event, we weren’t even sure it would happen.

The event helped shape the startup I had long wanted to do, to fix a personal problem: the lack of spaces in which to have in-depth technical conversations. HasGeek was named over a dinner conversation in one of the DocType HTML5 planning meetings, and our first act as a registered entity is to take DocType HTML5 across India. Registrations are now open for the Chennai (Nov 27) and Pune (Dec 4) editions, with upcoming editions in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi scheduled for Jan and Feb 2011.

I expect that this event series will point to some aspect of the modern web that deserves a deep examination in the March-May 2011 period. Early feedback is pointing to the canvas tag.

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Info-Activism Camp

My friends at the Tactical Technology Collective are organising Info-Activism Camp in February 2009. From their description:

The Info-Activism camp will bring together 120 rights advocates from the global South with technologists, designers and activists for a week long hands-on workshop to share skills, tools and tactics in digital advocacy.

Info-Activism is an approach to advocacy that recognises the artful use of information and communications as a primary tactic in successful campaigns.

The camp provides a space for intensive learning and doing, a structured 'skill-share' environment for experienced advocates that will give them the confidence and know-how to leverage the limited resources they have to create greater impact. During the week, participants will learn how to creatively integrate new technologies in to their advocacy and create long lasting connections with other advocates and tech-activists.

The camp will give rights advocates the practical skills, tools and techniques to use technology to:

  • Gather and analyse information and facilitate evidence-based campaigning
  • Create and disseminate targeted, accessible and engaging information for advocacy efforts that have impact on targets and mobilise support
  • Increase participation from affected communities
  • Enable cooperation and coordination with allies
  • Minimise security and privacy vulnerabilities

If you’ve been to any of TTC’s earlier Source camps, you’ll know them to be true camps, held away from urbanity in a full time week-long camp, technology driven, and yet focused on practical applications for the activist. These events are great places to meet folks who care about changing society for the better.

The venue is yet to be decided. It is likely to be near Bangalore. Application forms will be available later this month. More information here: Info-Activism Camp - February 2009, India.

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