It was a cloudy fine Sunday morning and around 100 techno junkies were present at IIM Ahmedabad’s new campus with their laptops, Ideas, experiences and knowledge.

The occassion was Ahmedabad Barcamp2. Ahmedabad had it’s first BarCamp in January 2008. Sunday’s BarCamp was second. Bar camps world wide follow ‘unconference’ model. ‘Unconference’ model is quite a much flexible, free structured and young kind of conference model.

In Barcamps, Anybody can announce his session on the notice board and can start addressing the available mass in a given classroom. Mass is free to choose the session and speakers are free to choose the subject of their expertise to speak on.

At one time three sessions on different subjects were going on in three different classrooms In Ahmedabad-BarCamps2. While Roshan Shah introduced his new website in one session, Abhishek Desai shared theme of his website in another session just a classroom away.

In the Barcamp, it is very usual that in one session if you are a speaker, in another session you may be sitting simply in audience and in lunch time(linch time was in fact announced as ‘networking linch’) you can do networking for your already running venture or some crazy popping idea in mind. If you want to skip all the sessions and want to talk with some one you find interesting, helpful or like-minded you can always do that on a cup of coffee outside the classroom.

Enthusiastic participants Ram and Smita were from Chennai while some others were from Mumbai also. They had specially came to the city of Ahmedabad to participate in Bar camp. Ram talked about his first online micro finance website of India, RangDe.Org. While Netra from Mumbai talked to the youths about ‘Startup Saturday’ initiative in Ahmedabad.

Netra is originally from Ahmedabad but she is settled in Mumbai for her profession. She works in Pinstrom and also owns her digitalmarketing venture. Netra had participated in earlier BarCamps organized at Mumbai and Pune last year. She then decided to take the challenge of organizing BarCamp in her own city Ahmedabad. She was instrumental in organizing first BarCamp in Ahmedabad in January 2008. After first BarCamp’s success she organized August 2008 BarCamp only via online registration and word of mouth publicity. She now intends to organize third BarCamp of Ahmedabad in next December or January.

Participation in Ahmedabad barcamp2 was free, thanks to the sponsor company Sun micro systems and infrastructure provider authority IIM Ahmedabad’s entrepreneurship center . Bar camp is helpful and exciting activity. Remember a day will come when there will be thousands of people participating in Barcamp-Ahmedabad, may be in BarCamp no. 20 or 36. For now it was just Ahmedabad-BarCamp no. 2.

IIM Ahmedabad related selected links on DeshGujarat
-How he got iim ahmedabads admission call(english-text)
-Harsha Bhogle’s IIM Ahmedabad speech(Video)
-P.Chidambaram’s convocation speech at IIM Ahmedabad
-Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s convocation speech at IIM Ahmedabad
-Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam will teach at IIM-Ahmedabad(DeshGujarat was first to report this)