{"id":781,"date":"2010-08-22T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2010-08-22T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T03:47:46","slug":"why-a-java-meetup-in-bangalore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/why-a-java-meetup-in-bangalore\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Java meetup in Bangalore?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Silicon valley, pick a day of the week and a topic and you’ll find an event<\/a> for the evening along with 20-odd like-minded folks to hangout with.<\/p>\n

This is missing in India (esp. Bangalore). There is a lot of top level chatter about startups, entrepreneurship, innovation. There is a huge momentum around events related to entrepreneurship. Just last 2 weeks saw 2 of them. But, the events around fundamentals of building a business are hard to find. To the surprise, there are events around social media marketing but few are talking about ‘building a sales pipeline’ or ‘ABCs of channel marketing’ or even deeper into core technical areas like ‘Building a distributed memcache’! Is it given that we know it all?<\/p>\n

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Beyond entrepreneurship, Bangalore sees maybe a handful of events which covers other areas of sales, marketing, technology, intellectual property, cloud computing and such. Even if there is once such event, it is meant to price out a general crowd.<\/p>\n

When I moved to Bangalore around 18 months ago — I could not find a place to hang out with fellow geeks but then met a lot of them at a startup event! This was nagging in the back of mind for a long time. Barcamp happens maybe once every 9-12 months. Slowly, things have started coming together.<\/p>\n

I was happy<\/a> to see that PHP Meetup found a place at Microsoft and they have been meeting regularly. Repeated the same thing with Java Meetup<\/a> earlier this weekend with a similar footing at Google where they have agreed to host the monthly melee.<\/p>\n

The whole idea is to get people bumping into each other and hopefully something new comes out of it. Maybe a new startup, a next job, or a solution for a problem or simple plain learning.<\/p>\n

Need more of such events, happening at a regular frequency. If you have ideas, drop a line, I can at least get you connected.<\/p>\n

And yeah, most of the silicon valley events come with a free pizza, soda and beer at times. Feed them well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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