I attended the Camp Icarus yesterday, a mini Barcamp of sorts at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology in Versova, Andheri, Mumbai. The event was organized as a part of their Icarus festival, which incidentally had a super-awesome LAN-Gaming competition the earlier day.

It was a good initiative and was backed by a decent amount of attendees pre-lunch. Even though most of the attendees were students of the same college, there were quite a few outsiders too. There was a substantial drop in the number of attendees after the FREE lunch session, but the spirit did not die down.

There were some interesting session taken at the event:

1. Funding your Startup by Mihir
2. Meri Bhi Website Hogi by Saumil Parekh
3. Promoting and Monetizing your Blog by Manan Kakkar
4. Podcasting by Dinesh Soni
5. Useless Talk by Neeraj Pattath

Unlike the usual Barcamps, this was slightly different in a way that one found himself as a part of the discussion. Everyone was involved in the sessions and there were quite a few questions asked by the viewers.

I carried along my MacBook Pro, my iPhone and my Canon S5IS along to cover the event. The photos taken, as usual, have been uploaded to my Flickr Stream.

I planned to cover the event live through the iPhone, but both Qik and Airtel’s EDGE had good plans to ruin the game for us. The videos were being half assedly uploaded to their servers and anyway, their online UI isn’t that good anyway. I resorted to recording the sessions through my prosumer camera and went on to record Dinesh’s and Manan’s sessions. Thanks to the room with less attendees, the audio isn’t that great.

Here’s Dinesh’s session on Podcasting:

And here’s manan, speaking on Promoting your Blog:

(The video begins half-way through his session)

[ Via TVIMH ]