{"id":124,"date":"2006-06-25T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/bar-camping-at-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2006-06-25T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T16:20:35","slug":"bar-camping-at-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/bar-camping-at-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Camping at San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 150 geeks got together this weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mscorp\/info\/usaoffices\/northernca\/sanfrancisco.mspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s San Francisco<\/a> office for sleeping bagging. Free food, drinks,  plenty of booze and schwag. This was a free event (not even a single dime!). I was able to have better offline discussions with peers than I had at ETech. The food, drinks, booze etc. were quietly delivered by the sponsors without a single marketing pitch.  Remember those blah-blah sessions from the sponsors of the &#8220;paid&#8221; events!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nimad.wordpress.com\/\">Nima Dilmaghani<\/a>  who is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft was the host of the event. Hats off to him for standing up and getting this place for us! I&#8217;m impressed; Microsoft allowing 150 unknown people, with unknown &#8220;police&#8221; credentials, to use their facilities, conference rooms, showers, etc. etc. for 48 hours.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Left-to-Right: Chris Bauman of Sproutit.com, Indus(me) and Nima at Microsoft's San Francisco location during Barcamp 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/mt\/archives\/174316013_f8af1171b9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nLeft-to-Right: Chris Bauman of Sproutit.com, Indus(me) and Nima at Microsoft during BarCamp<br \/>\n<strong>Tag:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BarCampSF\" rel=\"tag\">BarCampSF<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BarCamp\" rel=\"tag\">BarCamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 150 geeks got together this weekend at Microsoft&#8217;s San Francisco office for sleeping bagging. Free food, drinks, plenty of booze and schwag. This was a free event (not even a single dime!). I was able to have better offline discussions with peers than I had at ETech. The food, drinks, booze etc. were quietly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}