Today was Failcamp.

The day started with an introduction from Kiruba. Kiruba gave an introduction for the whole event. And he also mentioned that this is the second Failcamp happening in the world. This was something great.

The first session was from Suresh who spoke on his venture he started when he was 19 years old. He made mention about why the venture failed.

Next to speak was Kalyan from Quads group. He spoke about his ventures and also spoke about How and Why his first venture failed.

Then we had a session from Deepak on his venture about Embedded Systems which he started in Erode. And the problems he faced when he moved to Chennai. And some of the problems he faced while running the business for the last 5 years. 

Then we had a session from Virupakshan who spoke about his venture and some of the failures he faced.

Then Mathangi started with the topic on why not people introducing themselves before we go about with the event. Thus we had a round of discussions.

Then it was a complete round of discussions rather than people speaking more at the event. Suresh and Kalyan joined the discussion for more topics. 

Then it was for LUNCH. Arul and Kumaran from Tenth Planet took us a tour of office and the Yoga Room at his office. He also gave us an introduction to the paintings that they have put up on office. A lot of paintings. The office was really great.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swamiclicks

Post lunch, we had some sessions which I was not interested in. Veena asked me to post the photos so that she can get the article for newspaper ready.

Uploaded the photos and then left the venue. Booked my tickets back to bangalore and reached home.

Guys,

I’m at Failcamp Chennai. Just had a very good breakfast….

All geared up for FailCamp. Failcamp  is a friendly unconference where people get-together to share and learn from failures. It is taking place on 16th November,2008 at Chennai. We all make mistakes and learn from it to become a better person. Won’t it be great to learn from other’s mistakes so that we don’t make the same ones! The focus is really not about the failure. It’s about why we failed and what lessons we learnt from it. Let’s not be ashamed about failing. Let’s celebrate failure. Let’s look straight into its eyes.

Details at : http://barcamp.org/failcamp

Date & Time :

Sunday, 16th November, 2008

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Venue :

Tenth Planet Technologies Pvt., Ltd.,

#807, P.T.Lee Building, 6th Floor, Anna Salai, (Opposite LIC building)

Chennai-600 002

Hi all,

I’m speaking at the STC India Annual Conference in Pune this year. I’m speaking on Tools for API Documentation this time.

Hi all,

The registrations for the STC Annual Conference is open. This conference is the largest gathering of Technical Writers from all over India.

To register for the event, visit the following link:

http://stc-india.org/conferences/2008/reg/registrationform.pdf

More details in the following link:

http://www.twin-india.org/index.php?q=node/1207