PHPCamp: 700 attend
By Suneetha B

It was a day to remember! If you have always had the opinion that Java was hogging the limelight at the Bar Camps and PHP has had step-motherly treatment doled out, here is your chance to get another opinion. It really happened, a PHPCamp, and at Pune. And it was an Unconference!

You have the blogs buzzing with the camp reports, and judging by the response and the enthusiasm the camp was a runaway success! There was Abhishek Nagar, who was a volunteer at the camp as well as one who gave a talk on "Websites in Moments” and surprised the audience when he said he was just a student. Then there was Pravin Nirmal who held a session on Open Social and feels good about the session as well as the number of friends he made at the camp. Priyank Kapadia, Rahul Bansal, Navin Kapra, Priyanka Parekh, Tarun Chandel, Amit Singh, Rishi Agarwal, Varun Arora, the list of the bloggers are many and all speak in glowing terms of their camp experience.

A whopping 1212 registrations and more than 700 attendees from Mumbai, Ahmadnagar, Nasik, Pune and Bangalore assembled at Persistent Systems Private Limited, Pune, braving the heavy rains on September 20th. This was incidentally the first Unconference of its kind in India and is a precursor to many such camps hopefully. Amit who organized the camp records his experiences in this blog. Check it out!

Techgoss note:  more photos of the PHPCamp can be seen at the Techgoss Pictures/Video photo gallery.