BarcampMalaysia Day 2 Round Up
I started the second day of BarCamp by attending Saha’s session on digital photography.
He gave out various tips on how to take better pictures like focusing on contrasting colors and using doors to frame images, and is the official photographer for Barcamp.
While I think the dude captures excellent pictures, I ain’t ever hiring this guy as my wedding photographer. He captured possibility some of the ugliest, most unflattering pictures of myself at the event which have since spurred me to sign up for 30 sessions of personal training at Fitness First starting tonight.
Breathe Cheryl, breathe!
Moving on… I also attended Vyasa’s Journey of a startup – Silicon Valley Style where he shared his experience searching for investors for his Microchip start up. He and his partner Sara started the business fresh out of school and spoke to more than 200 VCs before securing RM3.5 from a private investor and a further 4 million from grants. Eventually the business failed last year due to lack of cash flow but Vyasa shared with us his believe that “For every door closes that closes, there is a new one which opens”.
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Lunch was Subway, generously sponsored by Zoecity. We love our sponsors!
Daniel and Vico’s session on recruitment and social networking reminds us all that what we put on our facebook, friendster, and blogs are being monitored and mined by recruitment consultants and potential employers.
They both however felt that we should not modify or adjust our online personas as it is our individualism which makes us unique and a good recruitment consultant like Daniel (plug) would be able to match not just your qualifications but your personality with the right employer.
Lastly I walked into Lighting Talks where everyone has a chance to share about anything for 5 minutes.
It was very informal and people where really just chilling out, talking and sharing stuff which interest them. Some of the topics ranged from hardware hacking, open source, individuals sharing their experience of Barcamp, and a call for hackers and developers to assist and educate social workers on the use of IT in promoting their cause. I was also put on the spot and babbled something about winning the Nokia E90 Communicator.
The day ended for me with some group photos - after which many volunteers stayed back to clean up the mess. Once again, thank you itrain for generously allowing us to use the venue.
