Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
I wasn't being flippant when I mentioned Barcamp Bangalore earlier in this thread. The event has evolved significantly in its four iterations, turning into an incubator of sorts -- we're going to have two spin-off events later this year, focusing on e-governance and startups, in addition to Barcamp Bangalore 5. As far as I can tell, there's no other place like Barcamp Bangalore in India to test a new idea for an event. On 02-Aug-07, at 4:18 PM, Mahesh Murthy wrote: Who would we like to have as speakers? What would set this apart? There's a Demo-like thing called Proto that happens every 6 months and another on Innovation that's happening in Blr soon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sriram balasubramaniam Sent: 02 August 2007 15:43 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India I'm a huge fan of the TED conferences. (www.ted.com) I've been thinking of an event similar to TED that could be held in India. I contacted Udhay about this, since a guy who collects people is probably the most suited for this endeavor. Here are some thoughts: The conference lasts for 3 days All the Silksters meet in India. We invite 20 to 30 speakers from our networks Focus on folks from technology, life sciences, arts, music... Gives speakers and silksters to interact and discuss issues of interest Open only to silksters Sponsors fund the event, and pony up $$$ for speaker travel and stay In other words, a closed conference for Silksters. We could think of an invite-only list too, like TED, and charge a nominal fee to cover costs. Udhay felt that this could be a good addition to FOU camp. Thoughts? Sriram
Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
On 8/2/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right-ho! Finest minds by whose standards? Another example: www.tallbergfoundation.org. -- The future is here; it's just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson
Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
On 02-Aug-07, at 8:02 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof that runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and not in good spirit. That did put me off TED. Where did you see that? The videos I've seen all start with Once a year... 1000 remarkable people gather in Monterrey, California. What's wrong with that? The only quibble I have is about whether having paid to attend qualifies one as among the thousand remarkable. J.
Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
On 02-Aug-07, at 4:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: We call it a FOU camp out here Actually, we call it a Barcamp around here. J.
Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
sriram balasubramaniam wrote: All the Silksters meet in India. Two things... 1. We are known as Silk-listers, methinks. 2. We already do FOU except for the big hoo-haa and sponsors. But seriously, I think a TED-like conference would really not be silk-like. FoU, I would attend... Venkat
Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof that Right-ho! Finest minds by whose standards?
Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
On 8/2/07, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof that runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and not in good spirit. That did put me off TED. Isnt TED synonymous with the Bono guy ?
Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India
On 8/2/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sriram balasubramaniam wrote: All the Silksters meet in India. Two things... 1. We are known as Silk-listers, methinks. 2. We already do FOU except for the big hoo-haa and sponsors. But seriously, I think a TED-like conference would really not be silk-like. FoU, I would attend... And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof that runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and not in good spirit. That did put me off TED. Cheeni
