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Folks

I have been working on this idea and concept for some time now. Since, my early open source game-dev days (early 2004), I have felt the need for having a pan-india indie game development community. Me and Yadu kept discussing it for so long, its hard to even recall. This all happened while we kept jumping projects on Sourceforge.net and then Launchpad.net.

November 2008, saw the setting up of a mailing list on Google Groups. I called it Indie Game Developers India (InGDIn) community. With no active promotion taking place, the community kept growing at a snail’s pace to the present day 32. That was until yesterday.

On September 2, 2009, Yadu and I, we have finally come up with the InGDIn Community formally. Currently, the website is under development – so we have an active presence on Facebook. See the InGDIn Page on facebook and become a fan as well (just to stay updated). InGDIn is also on twitter now! Follow us!

To propel the whole idea forward, and give us momentum, we have also come up with the idea of DiningCamps (organised by InGDIn). The objectives of DiningCamps are three-folds:

1. Create a platform to interact and network with people interested in game development – create a talent pool
2. Create a platform to showcase one’s work, find team members, investors and publishers – create an indie marketplace
3. Have loads of fun while doing the above both

A lot of stuff has still to be planned. Check out the event page on facebook – DiningCamp 04.10

A lot more will follow… keep your fingers crossed!

Have fun!

A compilation of some statistics about my domain: kinshuksunil.com for 2009, First Half.
These are very small and insignificant numbers, but at least they are milestones I am progressing forward from :)

The Source for these statistics is Awstats. I have started using Google Analytics, absolutely, from June 20th only. All subsequent stats will come from it.

VISITORS

Unique: 12991 (6 Month Average: 2165)
Page Views: 35655 (6 Month Average: 5942.5)
Hits: 361009 (6 Month Average: 60169)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows (All Versions): 60.8 %
Linux (All Distributions): 33.6 %
Mac OS (All Versions): 5.3 %
Symbian (All Versions): 0.3 %

BROWSERS

Firefox (All Versions): 49.1 %
Internet Explorer (All Versions): 26.5 %
Opera (All Versions): 8.9 %
Chrome (1.0.x): 5 %
Safari (All Versions): 3.6 %
Nokia Mobile : 1.6 %
Sony Mobile: 1 %

SOURCE COUNTRY

India: 56.4 %
USA: 23.7 %
Brazil: 5.2 %
Phillipines: 4 %
Russia: 3.6 %
UK: 3.6 %
Canada: 2.7 %

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MozillaCamp Delhi is being organised on February 10th, 2009 at the Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road New Delhi.

MozillaCamp Delhi
http://barcamp.org/MozillaCamp
February 10th, 2009 10am to 5pm
Indian Social Institute, near Sai Baba Mandir, Lodi Road

MozillaCamp Delhi will see web developers, designers, media and students coming together to celebrate emerging web technologies, localisation, internationalisation, and standardisation of web the Mozilla way.

Highligts of the event are:

• Discussion led by Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localisation (Mozilla)
• Discussion led by Arun Ranganathan, Standards Evangelist (Mozilla)
• A Talk by Mozilla Labs on Open-Web Development (through conferencing)
• An open Hack session led by Mozilla Labs through Conferencing.
• The event will also be live streamed on Mozilla AIR.

Registerations are beign made at the Barcamp wiki (link mentioned above) and if you use any Mozilla Toolie or are a Mozilla Loyalist, you wouldn’t want to miss the event. Over 80 regsiterations have been made. We know teh event is on tuesday but since Seth and Arun will be in Delhi only on Tuesday, so we cant be flexible about it.

Mohak has been doing a lot of hard work for organising the event. I have done my best to aide him. My company (OSSCube) has gladly sponsored us and is meetign all the expenses of the camp.

Organising and Sponsorship details include:
Unorganisers (its an unconference afterall!): Mohak Prince and Kinshuk Sunil
Organising Sponsor: OSSCube (My Company, Yay!)
Organising Partners: Routeguru, Pringoo, Innobuzz, Pictualize, Innovation R&D
Online Media Partners: BlogAdda.com
Youth Media Partners: YouthV.com
SMS Channel Partners: Indyarocks
TV Media Partners: Sahara Samay, NDTV, CNBC, IBN Live
Print Media Partners: Linux For You, Indian Express

For any more details, you can contact:
Mohak Prince, +91-9868669175,+91-9811230042
mohak.prince@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/mozcampdel
Kinshuk Sunil, +91 9910024895
kinshuk@osscamp.in
http://twitter.com/kinshuksunil

Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/mozillacampdelhi

Graphics for the event were made by the talented Kitty aka ‘Yadu’. Check some samples. In my attempt to show them in a cool way, I ended up showing them in a weird sideline way. Have a look at them, click on the image for a full view. connect with Yadu at his blog.You can also follow him at his Twitter.

MozillaCamp Delhi Banner by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Standee by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Web Gfx by Yadu

MozillaCamp Delhi Poster by Yadu

If you have trouble seeing the pictures, check them out at Picasa.