I have been doing a bit of driving these days in the Bay Area - going from one corner to another, meeting with clients and friends. Here are some links to share - I will write in details about few of these.
Attended BloggerCon and BarCamp, San Francisco: Verdict - Not impressed! BarCamp was particularly unimpressive - there hardly was any direction and the sessions got over by the time there was a potential of those getting interesting. 1st day at BloggerCon had some boring sessions - the 2nd half was much better though. It’s amazing to see so many ‘thinkers’ in one room. Meeting and listening to those people - I feel more and more that I am more of an executioner than a thinker. You just need to be in a different mode to cross the line and be qualified to call yourself a ‘thinker’. For BloggerCon audio, click here.
GoingOn sponsored 25th June breakfast at BarCamp. There were more than 10 sponsors for BarCamp but nobody sponsored T-Shirts. That is weird - we at BarCamp, Delhi were one of the sponsors for the T-Shirts and it was free for anybody who was there.
PeopleAggregator release announcement will happen at Gnomedex - I will also get a chance to be at the conference in Seattle.
My cousin, Siddhartha, have also started a blog. He has just gone through a few engineering exams and will be joining an engineering school in a couple of months. He talks about his experiences while preparing for the exams and the life during it and plans to talk about the life during engineering. Siddhartha - keep it up and continue blogging. You write much better than I had imagined.
Paavani had written a post on Tops a while back - I wanted to link this earlier but just forgot. Girl - it’s time to write another post - I love your posts. You write about things that not many people write about.
One of my close friend from IIT got married last week - I regret missing the ceremony. Animesh captures the mood there. Congrats Ajit and congrats Vijeta! One line that I really liked is: ‘Ajit’ means somebody who can’t be won and Vijeta means somebody who won. So, looks like ‘Vijeta’ won ‘Ajit’ - nice! I look forward to see you guys sometime soon.
I badly want to go visit Las Vegas again - I know that I won’t be able to go there this time. May be next time - or probably a client will invite me over for a conference there sometime soon 
Making a pleasure trip doesn’t seem to happen - anytime in the future.
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June 26, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Hey Ashish,
Thanks for your feedback. Did you come down today (Sunday)? If so, I agree, we were pretty relaxed and a little too loose. That’s because most of us had been ‘going’ since Friday night and had been sleeping on the floors of Microsoft for two nights. We were all pretty beat.
Saturday was a good deal livelier, yes, the sessions were still fairly short, but people carried on those interesting conversations in the hallway afterwards. Probabably a lesson learnt…but the trade off from being tired is that you bond that much more after spending the weekend with a crew than just one day. I guess those that weren’t in for the ‘whole experience’ don’t really get to see it.
Chris and I (two of the organizers of SF) also went to Bangalore, where we were impressed with the whole event - but once again, it was only a day long. How long was Delhi?
Thanks for stopping by, though. Feedback is great.
Tara
June 26, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Yes, I am supposed to write more frequently. Somehow I couldn’t write. Few posts are still in my mind.
Not too much of computer screen as I am having real time networking.
June 26, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Thanks for appreciating my writing. Surely will continue blogging.
Well so many regrets-not visiting Las Vegas and unable to attend your friend’s marriage.I think you should find time for yourself as well.
June 28, 2006 at 5:18 am
Tara - I understand that if you commit to spending the entire weekend, you will see a lot of benefit - particularly outside the sessions.
I attended just 1 day and it didn’t appeal to me that much. I appreciate the effort you put in organizing these conferences. Delhi was for a day this time - may be we will do for a couple of days next time
I think I missed meeting you this time but I hope to run into you at Gnomedex.