At IT Kerala
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Allo to my friends from Kakkanad, Kochi. It’s a bright, sunny morning, and the love is strong, really strong in the air. Yesterday, after a closeted, stifling but fun trip down from Trivandrum, we went over to the IT Kerala ‘06. It’s a pretty small place - and very much less developed than at Technopark, but still decently nice. The stalls are sturdy, clean and squeakingly polished, and we had a corner at the IIITM-K stall.
I’ve also uploaded a photo set to Flickr which I’ll update as the days go by.
One of the things that’s pretty obvious about a fest like this is that regardless of the hype, I don’t think there’s a lot of business being transacted a the event. It’s more in the nature of a ‘fair’ where the public comes to gawk in wonder (or pretend wonder) at the stuff exhibited. The only tech marvel I saw for example, was a pretty decently made path-finding obstruction-overcoming robot with a cam built in. It was fun playing around with it so much so that the people who made it finally asked me to get out of the way ;-). Microsoft also had a stall, but sadly no Longhorn previews - just a Windows Media Center demo. I’ll probably investigate all the stalls more thoroughly at a later date.
Dear Vishnu,
More on IT Kerala please..
We are getting the tinted feeds from the Media and we expect some kind of hands-on experience feeds from participants like you.
Is there any News on Microsoft’s charted Kerala operations? Any new companies coming to Kerala? Any news / companies on localization front?
By the way, I saw your Resume. Quite interesting!
“…..heavily customized the Drupal CMS for efficient content-management.”
What was the customization? To make it compatible for Malayalam?
with regards, benny
Comment by Benny — Thursday, 02 February 2006 @ 11:07:30
The customization was mostly to aid Sig9’s deployment. See http://sig9.com/.
There’s a huge post pending on IT Kerala, hope that’ll whet your appetite.
Comment by vishnu — Monday, 06 February 2006 @ 00:12:06
[…] m the outset though, I’ll say that there’s not much to talk about. Like I said earlier, the tone set is more in the vein of a village fair than anything business-oriented […]
Pingback by Vysnu » IT Kerala 2006: In detail — Monday, 06 February 2006 @ 11:47:35
MS has started operations in Cochin
Comment by MS FAN — Monday, 10 December 2007 @ 21:58:49