Orange Hues: Reviewing BarCampDelhi: Verdict

About Me

Manu Sharma
New Delhi / Gurgaon, India

Since mid 2006 I have grappled with climate change and what it means for us. As an activist and campaigner, I sought to learn and simultaneously, attempted to influence the issues surrounding it - in technology and policy advocacy. As a consultant, I studied markets and created portfolios in sustainability services and renewable energy investment.

After thousands of hours of research, tenacious activism, working up-close with NGOs as well as the industry, delivering about two dozen public talks, countless conferences, hundreds of online discussions, a few media appearances (including Reuters, News Television, and BBC radio), and continuous evolution of my own ideas about what ought to be done - I may have found some answers but the issue remains far from being addressed.

In the despair filled world of climate change the only place I've found real and lasting hope is in a beautiful vision inspired by "The Ringing Cedars of Russia" book series by Vladimir Megre. The books have triggered a transition movement in Russia and have profoundly influenced me. I am now working towards the vision.

Climate Revolution Initiative, an RTI campaign I founded and ran for a few years is now retired. I no longer deliver talks. I still consider myself an activist though and occasionally post on Green-India group started over nine years ago.

Older entries in this blog relate to my former occupation in user experience design; long time interest in business innovation, strategy, ethics; and venture creation.

Image on top of this bar is courtesy book covers of The Ringing Cedars series published under Croatian translation. (Source)

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Delhi's own BarCamp held at Adobe last Saturday was a big success by any measure. I had a great time listening to some very smart people talking about the latest in "Web2.0". There were close to 80 people who attended some 26 sessions in all. The atmosphere was electric with several sessions seeing exciting Q&A and each break witnessing enthusiastic discussions and networking.

I'm going to write a bunch of small posts instead of single big one. ~~I'll update this entry as I write them.~~

UPDATE: Other posts on BarCamp Delhi:

BarCampDelhi: Web2.0 Spills Over to the Real World

BarCampDelhi: Day of Revelations - Smart People, Entrepreneurship and Cutting Edge Tech

BarCampDelhi Session: Making AJAX applications faster - Jonathan Boutelle

BarCampDelhi Session: Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails - Manik Juneja

BarCampDelhi Session: Knowledge Management 2.0: Applying Structured Blogging to Knowledge Management - Manish Dhingra

BarCampDelhi Session: Web 2.0 and the Power of Default - Prashant

BarCampDelhi Session: Elements of Web 2.0: Micro-content, Mobiles and Communities - VeerChand Bothra

BarCampDelhi Session: Re-Inventing the Wheel of Personal Information Management With a New TWIST - Mir Nazim, Dipankar Sarkar

BarCampDelhi: On Adobe - "They Said Yes in 24 Hours"

Gaurav's post live from the conference

All of Jon's posts on the conference

All Flickr Photos! The audience (I'm in the third row on right), the t-shirt and "a semi-flattering photo" of Jon.