Mid-Feb update

Like I told someone the other day, I am regularly irregular. I post once a month. On trivial things. Like websites and marriages.

February has been quite eventful so far. Good events and bad events.

Bad first. Of course. Increased pressure at work. The “recession” or “econamageddon” as someone called it on NPR’s Planet Money podcast isn’t exactly easy on capital equipment sales. And there are other issues too.

Then Voteyatra had to be put in the cold storage. This is all that’s left of it now.

Voteyatra in hibernation

So we’ll have to wait for another day, for it to rise like the phoenix. (pardon the exaggeration). That’s been the most startup-y thing I’ve ever done in my life.

Now for the good. Late January was a visit to Pondicherry (on work). There wasn’t any time for sight seeing, the way the whole thing was planned, but we sneaked in a detour at Mahabalipuram to take in the Shore Temple.

Shore temple at Mahabalipuram

Three weeks later, I was back in the south, this time to Chennai to attend a good friend’s wedding. More on that here.

The week following that was Startup Saturday Delhi #2 which was not as great a success as the first one, but quite decent enough. The networking session seemed quite a busy one. Surely a few things to be learnt from that experience. Ritesh has a more detailed post here.

Last weekend was wordcamp. With Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and Om Malik, of GigaOM as honoured guests. Quite a lot of interesting (and boring) topics. Met a number of friends there, put some faces to twitter ids, and got acquainted with some new people. Wordcamp was trending on twitter, with the tag #wci. Of course there were a lot of non-specific tweets with that tag, but it gave a good account of the whole event along with all the happenings on the sidelines. A few people have blogged (and live blogged the event) and a google search for WordCamp India will throw them up. For me it was just an inspiration to start blogging again.

Next week is BarCamp Delhi at MDI Gurgaon. So its a trip back to the alma mater. Hope to meet old friends there. Not the twittering type.

Been quite a long post by my standards, and its been a good day.

A December update

A very eventful December happened.

First there was the first edition of Startup Saturday, Delhi, which I believe, was quite a success. Ritesh has a post up here on the happenings. He also has an interview with Narendra Nag who gave the very first presentation that day, on why startups don’t need HR departments.

The live tweets from the event can be found here. (mostly from me).  And according to tweetstats, the tag #ssd1 trended for 30 mins.

#ssd1 trending on twitter

For VoteYatra, things got cracking before Christmas and there was a lot of activity when it came to the website. We got it up finally, but there’s a lot lacking in the layout. So we’re looking for Drupal/Joomla developers who’d work pro-bono or for very less. Sadly that hasn’t happened so far.

The year at work was satisfactory too. Sales closed as per targets, which is good news.

New Year’s eve celebrations were great too!

January doesn’t seem too good, so far. Hoping for better things to happen.

Mid-Week update

Work continues as usual. Org changes happening.

Interesting things outside of work.

The first edition of Startup Saturday Delhi, happens on Saturday, 13th December. Will post more on that.

VoteYatra work is going on full swing. We have a facebook group up with around 170 members and the website should be ready soon. Will have a separate post on that too. As the elections draw near things will keep getting busier.

Have been meaning to write about the Mumbai terror attacks, but can’t think of anything different from what’s been spoken about. So its still in a draft mode.