Cerebrate.in : An event not to be missed .. but you will!
And not just once. Year after year you will miss this event :)
I met a fellow blogger today and we were talking about the big bloggers of India and Kiruba Shankar’s name came up in the discussion. I had not visited his blog in a long time and decided to take a look. I found this interesting post on Cerebrate.in. The post describes the concept behind cerebrate.in
“In simple terms, it’s getting the very best minds from different fields together for three days of togetherness, ideating and sharing knowledge. These are folks from Law, Movies, Technology, Theatre, Sports, Management, Photography, Medicine, Journalism, Music…. The only connecting factor amongst the lot is the excellence. These are folks who are driven and have achieved in their own chosen fields.”
On some googling, I also found this interesting video about it
So basically cerebrate is a get together of the elite crowd who meet in a great resort (the primary sponsor of the event), drink, eat and ideate. What I am surprised at is that I have never ever met any of these people at Barcamp Bangalore. Considering this event was in Goa, I am sure travel is not a problem. So Is Barcamps for commoners only? I never see the venture funded startups or the celebrity bloggers (leaving out the few exceptions) there. I tried to find out about the discussions in cerebrate but unfortunately, the blog and wiki of cerebrate have not been updated with the details. All the discussions there are private knowledge not shared with the commoners yet.
I read some days back about how there is a FooCamp and then people who were not invited created barcamp. I am surprised that cerebrate is an effort to go from Barcamps to FooCamps. Also some of the people attending/organizing cerebrate are advocates of free knowledge and democratization of everything. The video also looks more like a commercial for Club Mahindra (as some people note in the comments to the original post), especially towards the end. In fact I read on this blog post that Kiruba Arun (according to a comment, its Arun and not Kiruba) had also participated in Club Mahindra’s Annual Sales Summit sometime back. May be I am just plain jealous that I could not and would never be able to sit with the best minds of the country and get to discuss stuff with them. I can email them but then I doubt if I would ever get a reply. I swear, I have tried it with a few of them in the past :)
I guess I better wait for BCB 7 :(
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I bet it was a failure. The guy in the video was so excited and spoke a lot of big words, but didn’t convey anyting concrete. What were they supposed to learn from each other, anyways ?
I think it was basically meant to be a Mahindra Resorts publicity stunt, o_O ?
Nothing to get worked up about. It’s just a private party.
You can be assured that some of the most interesting people around would rather put their efforts into making open events like Barcamp and its descendants more useful.
The BCB planners have had this debate several times over the last couple of years, and decided each time that despite our concerns with the growing crowd and the increasing difficulty of keeping discussions on track, we were not going to turn BCB into an exclusive event. The bar for entry would be straightforward, egalitarian and based on your promise to participate in the *forthcoming* event rather than what you did in the *past*.
The roots of this philosophy go back to smaller, private events ranging from 2005.
BCB7’s doors will be open for you.
yup..looks like a paid PR gimmick.
Just that, with the world hailing Kiruba and the like, I expected him to come up with a decent show unlike the shabby picture he painted of himself and the bunch he went out with!
Club Mahindra sponsored a joke of an event! And they plan to do it year after year:)
Hi Prateek,
I somewhat tend to disagree.Though Kiruba is famous because he is an old time blogger but his so called “fame” is also attached with the events that happen in Chennai( as well as Bangalore).He is around in most(if not all) BarCamps and has been a big contributor in that space.
As far this event goes, I would just say “We cannot compare everything with BCB,OCC etc etc.”, everything is in the right place.Imagine if Celebrate.in also becomes like a BCB, would BCB hold its importance.Secondly,many people in the video are AFAIK are quite good friends of Kiruba(like Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan of CNBC, Atul Chitnis of Geodesic and one person from Sulekha).So, sure this wouldn’t have been a BCB.
In fact as many people say “Fame/Name rises with negative criticism”, we are only making them more famous :)
-Himanshu Sheth
Hi.
Clarifications:
Kiruba didn’t participate in Club Mahindra’s annual sales summit. In my post I was referring to Arun Nair, a club mahindra executive…when I said “he recently returned from..”