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The Mauritius Barcamp finally took place on the 20th and 21st of June 2008 at le hochet. Unfortunately I’ve missed the session of Friday but was able to attend the Saturday session. There were about 10 participant for this first session of the barcamp mauritius:

- Jean-François : Developer at Vinivi. Tags : Geek, hobbyist, web 2.0

- Malcom : Technician at Air Mauritius. Tags : hobbyist, bater-bis, Linux

- Julien : Student in marketing. Tags : commercial, web 2.0, game

- Antony : Developer dotnet. Tags : electro, gamer, dotnet

- Vincent : PHP Developer and Blogger. Tags : blogueur, passionne, humoriste

- Annabel :’ secretaire-receptioniste-standardiste’ at TopFM.

- Pascaline from Radio 1.

- Ashesh :Freelance Developer and Graphic designer .

- Georges our host : Director at BM. Tags : expressionweb, retraité, 33 ans

- Pierre : manager of HappyWebAgency. Tags : passionné, amoureux, curieux

We were able to have 3 presentations:

Ubuntu by Malcolm Madelon
Malcolm gave an overview of Ubuntu as well as some applications that came with that version of ubuntu.

Wordpress by Vincent L’Ecluse
I did a presentation on wordpress which was in 2 parts. The first part was with a brief history and features of wordpress. The second part was a live demonstration of installation and configuration on a local server.

OpenID by Pierre Bernard
Pierre did an introduction to OpenID and gave some advantages of using and implementing such systems on various websites.

In this photo: George, Pierre, Jean-François, Me, Malcolm

There was also a short presentation on the association in which Malcolm and I are members, SUD. The journey was rich with discussion and debates about various subjects related or not to the internet and open sources. During the Barcamp, we also had the chance to be involved in a flashmeeting with the Barcamp of Dijon. I was amazed by the video quality of the transmission.

For all those people that have missed the Mauritius Barcamp, you can have a chance to join for the BracampEarth in August (17 - 19). This would be an international event for the commemoration of the first Barcamp. This just remind me of the JOTA - JOTI events in october from all the scouts around the globe.

You can have more info on Bernard’s Blog with video’s and photos but the article is in french

What is a BarCamp ?

A BarCamp has nothing to do with any activities related to Bars nor alcoholic drinks. A BarCamp is simply an international network of user generated conferences. This mean that all the participants are free to provide a presentation on a topic related to informatics. Most of the topics are normally focused on one or a mixture of those things: web applications, open sources, social protocols and open data formats.

BarCamp in Mauritius

Mauritius network is organizing the first BarCamp hosted in Mauritius. The BarCamp Mauritius will start on Friday 20th of June 2008 at 10.00 am and will end on the Saturday 21st of June 2008 at 5.00pm. This activity will take place at the Domingue building, Le Hochet - Terre Rouge. There is going to have presentations of 30 to 45 minutes on different subjects in informatics and internet, brainstorming sessions, video conferencing and lot more. This is a free activity and there is no fee to pay for participation.

This experience is going to be unique and it is a must not to miss out. You will have the chance not only to share your knowledge in a rapidly evolving technology but to create potential contacts with other people in related fields as well. There are already many users of open sources in Mauritius, from a program such as notepad++ to operating systems such as Linux, but they do it in an isolated way. I think that is would be very important for the Mauritian community to build up and strengthen a network of open source users in order to be able to move with the informatics technology.

If you want to have further informations on the BarCamp or if you want to register, visit the official website:

BarCamp Mauritius

Don’t forget to also invite your friends. You can help by talking about this events over the internet in chats, forums, by posting on your blog or by using social bookmarking. The more people we have, the more knowledge we are going to share.

The entrecard contest has comes to its end. It was a first experience for me in organising online contest. The Idea came when I won such a contest and said to myself that it would be such a great fun to launch one myself. With the help of my sponsor from unconventional marketing, I was able to give up to 3000 entrecards credits. For the newbies this would be such a good thing. I hope that the 3 winner will be happy with their prizes.
here is the list of the 3 winners
1st : Christophe
2nd: danandmarsh
3rd: Louis Liem

and the other participant are indocontest and Rajaram S.

I hope that you enjoy it people.