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I wish I did go to the first Barcamp in KL but unfortunately I couldn’t make it for some reason. However, I will be attending Barcamp in Johor Bahru(JB) in 6th-7th December 2008.

For those who don’t know much about Malaysia, the capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur(KL). And Johor Bahru is like 5 hours drive from KL. Yeah, so for me that’ll be another journey to that side of the country. Lately I’ve traveled to Singapore twice and Singapore is just opposite of JB.

Barcamp Johor Baru 2008

So I went to their website and checked out the sessions. Here’s the ones I liked:

• Azure, Cloud computing from Microsoft.
• MSC Malaysia pre-seed fund.
• Microfinancing(?) from Kiva
• Drupal
• Enterprise PHP

For the final sessions and tracks please check back at their website http://barcamp.org/BarCampJB

So see you at Barcamp JB 2008!

Update:
It’s Johor Bahru. New Johor

What I have really missed is getting up early, I guess that’s what you get when you live right in front of your office, literally. So to get myself register(registration at 8am) and attend early tracks(9am) I had to wake up at 6.30am. Travelled in LRT until Bangsar and took a cab to Midvalley Megamall.

Getting through registration and writing my name on a sticker and sticking it on my T-Shirt, I went into the lift where I meet Daniel CerVentus. Upstairs at level 7 early comers were getting their startup camp T-Shirts and already getting social.

I attended Social Entrepreneurship & its Challenges: Aceh – The Case Study – Ellynita Hazlina Lamin, CEO, ACSB, Profiling: Picking The Right Partners – Michael Reyes (Co-founder, Money Tree), The Entrepreneur Myth – Khailee Ng, Shaking Today, Shaping Tomorrow - Michael Tan, Founder of www.yourparttime.com

Ellyn was quite emotional, her startup involved a lot more then just making big bucks. I believe she is contributing to the society and she is really dedicated to it. It was quite different and informative for me.

The next track was Michael’s from Money Tree. He was very experienced in giving speeches and did quite a interesting one. He made a lot of related jokes and interacted with the audience. His track was about how to read people and choose the right partner for your startup. It was fun.

Khailee started off quite in unusual way, he didn’t have any slides to show(I’m sure it is not because he didn’t have time to prepare it was his style) unlike others. He talked, very fast and very interestingly. All the audience was listening carefully to him. He mentioned his life experiences, mistakes and pitfalls of getting to where he is. And he is at TheYouthIntelligence. It was surprise for me to hear him mentioning about Phang, my boss over at Innity.

In between these sessions I met a lot new faces: Carmen and Jules from Creative Paramedics, Boon from Gotka Technologies and Steven from Brilliant Resources.

We had really nice chat with Carmen and Jules, they are sweet ladies that started 4Play magazine for kids and teens.

With Boon we couldn’t chat much since the track was already begining. But I guess will have time tomorrow.

Steven and I did exchange some thoughts of SEO and local web hosting companies and also business in general. His office turns out is not too far away from mine. This is yet another sucessful example of a startup.

Then we had lunch, it was quite long queue for the lunch. I waited a bit then I headed off to Midvalley shopping, I couldn’t miss a chance to eat outside once I’m out of PJ.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the tracks after lunch.

Right now I’m at my sisters place, will be going off to my place in a while. I’ll be posting Startup Camp, Day 2 post tomorrow.

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