The MindTree Osmosis unconference is over.. Read the blogs to know how it was...
Shahnawaz Khan http://shahnawazkhan.wordpress.com/
Ujjwal Grover http://ujjwalgrover.blogspot.com
Prakasan http://www.trizit.blogspot.com/
An External Participant http://generally.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/mindtree-osmosis-2007-an-external-view/
Suresh http://iduvejeevana.blogspot.com/2007/12/osmosis-celebrating-innovation-mindtree.html
Balaji http://labsji.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/filmcampin-mindtree-osmosis-unconference-adaptations-to-watch/
Event details
| Date | Saturday 15th December 2007 |
| Time | Registration starts @ 9.00 am onwards. unconference sessions start @ 10.00 am |
| Location & Venue | MindTree Consulting Ltd. Global Village, RVCE Post, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059, Karnataka India. (directions/map below) |
| Phone | +91-80-26264000. Contact Shahnawaz Khan (+91-98801-28701) for assistance in reaching to the venue |
| Landmark | MindTree’s West Campus is located to the left of Mysore Road just before RVCE Engineering College |
What is Osmosis?
Osmosis is MindTree's annual technology festival -- the celebration of the nerd within all of us as we like to call it. It is MindTree's way of celebrating technology through showcasing achievements, through collaboration in form of discussions and various events & contests.
Osmosis, started in 2005, is into it's 3rd edition this year and has achieved great success in its first two editions in all aspects - scope, size, content quality, participation and excellence.
Osmosis runs for more than a quarter and consists of the following:
- Technical Paper Contest, weekly Community Quizzes, TechWorks Contest, Design Patterns Contest, Code War, Knowledge Safari stalls put up by various communities, practices, verticals within MindTree.
- Invited talks/events where our partners & technology leaders come and share their knowledge with us.
- Student Paper Contest, where we reach out to more than 50 Engineering colleges, MBA institutes for paper writing contests. This gives the undergraduate students an opportunity to exercise and improve technical, written and verbal communication skills
Osmosis culminates in a grand finale in mid-December with Key Notes, Panel Discussions, Invited talks and CTO sessions.
You can find more details about Osmosis here:
Osmosis 2007
Osmosis 2006
Osmosis 2005
What's different this year ?
This year Osmosis is being reinvented to make it it even more participative & self organized. For example:
- Osmosis final day will be an ‘unconference’ where participants will decide, organize and lead the discussions on the final day of Osmosis.
- For the various contests of Osmosis, e.g. the paper writing contest, photography contest etc. all MindTree Minds are part of the evaluation process and have a say in selecting the winners in addition to the formal evaluation. In past, the evaluation was only through a formal panel of experts. This year, MindTree Minds can rate & evaluate the papers, photograpgs, TechWorks on the same parameters as the formal panel of experts. The ratings from the open evaluation and formal evaluation will be collated to decide the winners of the various contests.
- For the CTO session on the final day, MindTree Minds will provide inputs & suggest topics to the CTO’s, and the CTO session will be in form of a discussion & debate rather than a uni-directional CTO talk.wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet
- Equivalent of Flickr, Blogger platforms have been created for MindTree Minds to share blogs, stories, pictures around Osmosis, capturing the unfolding of Osmosis through their eyes, as they see it -- effectively providing each MindTree Mind an opportunity to become an equivalent of a Citizen Journalist.
- MAG (MindTree Artists Guild) conducts a photography contest every year as part of Osmosis. This year, the best photographs will be decided by MindTree Minds through an internal equivalent of Flickr. These photographs would then form part of the picture gallery in the upcoming office buildings of MindTree.
Open to external participation
Keeping in line with the inclusive, participative & self organized spirit of Osmosis 2007, MindTree has decided to open up participation in the Osmosis unconference to the vibrant unconference community in India. This will enable sharing, learning & cross pollination of ideas and also spread the culture of 'unconferences', 'barcamps' to mainstream corporate India. This would also enable us to share our experiences with the world on how social & emergent concepts like unconferences can be weaved into the corporate culture and what adaptation, if any, is required in the unconference concept to make it work within an organization.
In the true spirit of an unconference, all campers are welcome to take sessions and speak on topics that they want to, apart from attending whichever sessions you want to. At the Osmosis unconference, there will be NO distinction between external participants & MindTree Minds (MindTree Employees)
If you want to propose a topic, add it in the Proposed Sessions section. If you are planning to present at the Osmosis unconference, also register yourself at the Campers section in addition to entering the relevant details in the Proposed Sessions section.
Map/Directions
Osmosis unconference will be held at MindTree's West Campus in Bangalore, sprawled over a 140-acre lush setting. The address is:
MindTree Consulting Ltd. Global Village, RVCE Post, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059, Karnataka India.
How to register?
This page is a Wiki page, which can be edited by anyone.
So, you can just edit this page and do the following:
* Add your name to the Campers' list ... This is the complete list of attendees
* Add a session to the Proposed Sessions list ... In case you would like to give a session on some topic
* Suggest a topic to the Discussion Topics ...
* Suggest what we can provide you with, apart from what we are already providing
* Add your name to the Bloggers list if you will blog about Osmosis
Instructions to do the above:
At the top of this page you will find a link called "Edit Page"
Click it and enter your Name and e-mail address
The universal password is c4mp
After you submit, you will be able to edit the text you are reading right now.
Edit the Camper's list or add a topic for discussion
Drop in an email to Shahnawaz Khan if you are facing issues with editing this wiki (Messages like: Oops! It looks like PBwiki has the hiccups. There was an internal server error .... ) and would like to participate in Osmosis
Participants (aka Campers)
please add your name below if you plan on attending the osmosis unconference. NOTE: Do carry an ID proof on the 15th. This is to ensure that only Campers who register here on this wiki attend the event
Proposed Sessions
In the true spirit of an unconference, all campers are welcome to take sessions and speak on topics that they want to. In keeping with the technology focused nature of Osmosis, it is recommended that the suggested topics for the unconference be technology related (techno-business sessions are fine).
| S.No | Title | Speaker |
| 1 | Genetic Programming: Can we use it for developing software like they have done it for circuits in evolvable hardware? | Manikantan H |
| 2 | Friction between Testing and Development | Ananda Rao Ladi |
| 3 | Twitter for real time Micro Blogging | Ujjwal Singh Grover |
| 4 | Why is Testing the least understood phase in SDLC? | Ananda Rao Ladi |
| 5 | SAP ERP implementation complexity(Why success story percentage is very less) | Gangadharayya Virupakshayya Hiremath |
| 6 | BPM has arrived? | Venkataraghava P |
| 7 | Higher studies -- what's the right time & approach | Gangadharayya Virupakshayya Hiremath |
| 8 | Is there a future for IPTV? | Alex George |
| 9 | jumpstart Open Social -- use existing networks for your benefit | Ujjwal Singh Grover |
| 10 | User Experience Delivery | Afshan Kirmani |
| 11 | Innovation -- What's in it for me? | Prakasan Kappoth |
| 12 | The secret behind high performance websites | Shahnawaz Khan |
| 13 | Google's Android | Puneet Mehta |
| 14 | Will the dollar-rupee factor influence IT industry in a big way ? | Ahmed Mamsa |
| 15 | Identity and access management : does Spring Acegi fit? | Regunath Balasubramanian |
| 16 | Web 2.0 Transforms The Business Landscape ? | Sidharth Mohapatra |
| 17 | Value addition to customers & Quality of code/deliverables - An ongoing Improvement process | Sankaranarayanan KK |
| 18 | Leading Change | Anil Davuluri |
| 19 | IP for in-vehicle networking - will it lead to a revolution ? | Mangesh Khare |
| 20 | Architecture Style for Web Based Applications | Prashanth RS |
| 21 | Extreme Data Warehousing | Abhishek Tandon |
| 21 | Role of a Test Manager | Sylvia Veeraraghavan |
| 22 | Reinventing Mainframe: Mainframe 2.0 in a Web 2.0 world | Sunil Ram. Rao |
| 23 | Modernization of Mainframes: Is it a myth or a reality. | Suresh Murthy |
| 24 | I and my Project Manager | Prasad G S K |
| 25 | Software Engineers Are Extinct. Long Live Software :) How to Drop Your Tail & Stand Up | Srinivas Rao Bhagavatula and Babuji Abraham |
| 26 | A disabled-friendly usable world | Sagar Paul |
| 27 | Usability - Embedding it in the development process | Sagar Paul |
| 28 | Telematics: Set for Take-Off? | Adhish Anand |
| 29 | Frameworks: What's holding them back? | Krishna Kumar H |
| 30 | Complete/Turnkey Product Development – Can services companies ramp up to the challenge | Narendra Kumar Gopal |
| 31 | Is it better to be a Jack of all Trades or a Master of One? | Jayalakshmi S |
| 32 | Organisational Behaviour – Does workplace bonds strengthen a diverse democracy | Jayalakshmi S |
| 33 | Are we losing Indian tradition because of globalization? | Ramadurai R |
| 34 | Self Deception | Sajana V |
| 35 | what are the qualities a person need to have to become a great leader? | Naveen Garg |
| 36 | Manufacturing visioning the Factory of the Future – Manless Factory | Arun Nooli |
| 37 | Mac Vs Windows : Which is more User friendly? | Vijay Muthupalaniappan |
| 38 | Three Cheers to Crowd Sourcing! | Vishwanath Surendiran |
| 39 | Where do you learn more -- working in maintenance/enhancement project or new development project | Ambal Ramachandran |
| 40 | Java 5 EE in action | Sanjeeb Sahoo |
| 41 | Telecommuting - Technologies that can make it work | Jayesh Kapoor |
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag osmosis, osmosis-blr, osmosis-mindtree for content related to this event
Who's blogging?
Shahnawaz Khan http://shahnawazkhan.wordpress.com/
Ujjwal Grover http://ujjwalgrover.blogspot.com
Prakasan http://www.trizit.blogspot.com/
An External Participant http://generally.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/mindtree-osmosis-2007-an-external-view/
Suresh http://iduvejeevana.blogspot.com/2007/12/osmosis-celebrating-innovation-mindtree.html
Balaji http://labsji.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/filmcampin-mindtree-osmosis-unconference-adaptations-to-watch/
There would be music/jamming sessions during lunch & evening. Campers are welcome to join
