Harish Palaniappan's

What happens when you decide to meetup with fellow web identities, so far total strangers, for an informal technical seminar.. so aptly called a camp. That's what I think I gave myself time to findout today at the pipescamp.

I got interested after reading an invite email from GaneshAPP for the camp. While I don't understand why even when the sender himself said too many times in the email message that it is 'SPAM', Thunderbird or gmail didn't think it was spam...sometimes these google guys don't believe users ..at all. ha ha.

pipesCamp was about Yahoo Pipes! There was both formal and informal discussions on the Yahoo Pipes' technology, the features, what is possible, what is not, why it is not great business sense to do mash-ups like yahoo pipes, and, some more brainstorming like that.

The camp was well organized and attended at Hotel Shaan Royal near koyambedu, chennai.. and it was all planned and pulled off with blogger support with just 3 days notice.

The take-homes from the camp were:
1. All it takes to make a camp and have people brainstorm around is.. just a few humble modest friends who have the contacts, and one guy atleast with the money to sponsor it, and regular blog post readers.

2. 'Geeks' is an utterly butterly over-used, abused, word. Everybody is not a geek in my opinion.. and not definitely just because we attend such camps. Don't brand us geeks please.

3. Remember to have MONEY as an output when you do something.

4. I didn't get convinced that Yahoo Pipes is great, neither got bored that it was just about feed processing... but one thing that was obvious is.. Yahoo Pipes is giving people new ideas to use and present content differently... even on their blogs...so imagine what they will think of doing for their commercial web projects.