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04 21st, 2010| 
I should probably get myself hit by the people who were around me when I lifted my hands for blogging on Barcamp3. Coincidentally, Kiruba’s words was so powerful to leave me without a internet connection for the past week, that I am posting this with such a delay. Better late than never and also i never wanted to miss out my experience at this years’ barcamp.
It was April 11,2010 - my 23rd birthday and it was a fair decision for me to go for a Barcamp3 to start this year with something useful. I reached there by 9.30 and rushed to the conference hall after skimming the wiki board. Had I written this post the next day, I would have mentioned the entire days’ happening with the list of sessions. But since, Harish and Syed have already made a fine list on them, I would rather write about the entire days’ most memorable happenings.
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Following a perfect unconference way of seating post lunch and removing the classroom kinda sessions - Kudos to Kiruba!
The session on the Calendar of TKF for 2010. I got the membership of TKF and came to know about similar minded people who work under Elements 5
The lightening session by Vivek(rvivek/interviewstreet.com) who really was my inspiration for the day! Of same age, now an successful entrepreneur, made me realize that I do nothing special
Session on the Internet Society(ISOC). Being completely addicted to internet, it was completely new to know that there is some special society which focuses on internet standards, education etc.
“Entrepreneurship and Love(Sex)” - Wow! No one in barcamp3 will forget that session forever. Ram took that session with appropriate double meaning photos :P. Sexy Session!!
Lunch - 10% for the food and 90% for the break time which gave space to make new friends and extend our network, which is ultimately the reason and purpose of unconferences!
Feedback session and points to improve discussion was really nice to get to know the views of everyone there. Few of the points which i remember are:
A better choice of venue to suit the unconferency style and crowd
Appreciations and blows to yuvi panda for leading the organizing team!
Suggestions to do live tweets and stick to hash tags
Spread the word across more interested audience in addition to the regular ones
Photoshoot where we had to maintain different poses for each snap taken by cameraman Kiruba!
The TEDx organizers meet where we got associated with. Really was amazed to hear about TED conferences all around the world and really charged up to put all efforts possible for it!
Altogether, it was a perfect knowledge treat for me on my birthday! And, i have really started hands on few new ventures after Barcamp2 like Photography classes and a small NGO - Peace and Happiness! This years’ inspirations will also drive me into new ventures very soon. Looking forward for many such events from the knowledge foundation! I bet anyone who comes to such camps, take lots of inspiration from other participants in addition to the knowledge which they get.
If you have missed out all camps of TKF so far, do make it a point to be on the next one! Share your knowledge, spread your network, inspire others and also get inspired!
Remainder: TEDx Chennai on October 10,2010 at IIT,M. For further details, check out http://www.tedxchennai.com/
“Let us meet just like that and discuss what each of us know and share our knowledge”. Had this been said a few years ago to anyone in chennai, the instant reply would be, “loosaapa nee?”. But, if the same statement is made today, people immediately turn up and readily participate. Gone are the days where people kept their professional secrets (thozhil ragasiyams) and it is really a healthy sign! 
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