DBM XXI (4th Anniversary celebrations)
On 13th Jan 2004, a group of bloggers in Delhi decided to get together and meet offline for the first time. The excitement, apprehension, curiosity of meeting total strangers – all culminated in a rather successful meet and the formation of a community which has lasted all this while. It’s the 4th birthday of our beloved community. It’s great to have lasted this long in the online world, certainly no mean feat this one! 20 official meets, a couple of unofficial meets, history walks, photography gyaan, book reading, kite flying, link-ups, print/tele coverage (BBCRadio/ Delhi Times/HT City/TodayPlus), flame wars, exercises in blogging outreach and endeavours with NGO’s ……….we’ve come a long way together.
The group has had as its members, people from all walks of life..techies, journos, students, activists, photographers, lawyers, doctors, guys who make their living off blogs!!..and we’ve walked a few steps together. A few in our group have moved on, relocated to other cities, but are still a part in spirit, and try and stay in touch. As the old saying goes “Once a DelhiBlogger, always a DelhiBlogger!!”
We are celebrating our 4 years in this online world and keeping a simple meet this time with no frills and fancies – only fun unlimited, which includes shooting a video of delhi bloggers. If you wish to join in on the fun, please append your name at the meet registration link or write to twilightfairy at gmail dot com (mobile # nine eight one one five one one seven one nine). Please keep your calendars blocked for 13th Jan 2008, 4:30-11pm, Blues, Outer circle, CP, New delhi 
. You can drop in any time at your convenience.
DBM XX
Date: 10 Nov 2007 (Saturday)
Time: 6 pm 3pm onwards…
Venue: Barista, outer circle, CP, Delhi
Organisers:
1. Twilight Fairy (Priyanka) (Contact No. +91-9811511719 )
2. Saurabh garg
For further details and confirmation of attendance, please edit this wiki (password delBM).
DBM XIX
Another history walk! Here are the details :
Date: 07 Oct 2007 (Sunday)
Time: 4 pm onwards…
Venue: Jamali Kamali masjid, Near Qutub minar comlpex, Mehrauli Gurgaon Rd, Delhi
Organisers:
1. Twilight Fairy (Priyanka) (Contact No. +91-9811511719 )
For further details and confirmation of attendance, please edit this wiki (password delBM).
DBM XVII
Finally we have the “history walk DBM” happening. Following are the details -
Venue : Safdarjung tomb (please read up on it, if possible get printouts or illustrations along – we’ll be in knowledge sharing mode)
Date : 10 June (sunday)
Time : 5pm (sharp as the venue probably closes by 6pm)
Equipment – cameras/tripods/ for the photography enthusiasts, notepads for the history enthusiasts and perhaps canvas for some painting enthusiasts? :p (Am i getting too imaginative here )
For confirmations please respond in comments or write to twilightfairy[@]gmail[.]com
DBM XVI
Venue : Cha Bar, located at Oxford Bookstore,
The Statesman House, First Floor,
148, Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi – 110001
Phone number : 011- 23766084 / 083 (Cha bar), Twilight Fairy
Date : 12th May 2007
Time : 6 pm onwards (till ~8-8:30pm as the cha bar closes by then.)
RSVP in comments please.
DBM XV
On 13th Jan 2004, a group of bloggers in Delhi decided to get together and meet offline for the first time. The excitement, apprehension, curiosity of meeting total strangers – all culminated in a rather successful meet. Three years and several meets later, this group has grown bigger and has managed to make its presence felt not just in Delhi or India but also with BBC. The group has gone through all that a dynamic group connected together online goes through, be it the ups or the downs. DBM XV is the third anniversary of the first ever meet that this group had. A lot of oldies and a lot of newbies are expected in the meet.
The details -
Venue : Lodhi Garden
Date : 13th Jan 2007
Time : 2pm onwards
The tentative plan is to shift to IHC when it gets too cold, approximately 5-ish.
Contact details : Twilight Fairy
Amit Ken
Update on DBM XIV
It was quite an interesting DBM this time with a LOT of brainstorming and eventually a conclusion (which is the most essential part). The few basics we discussed : (a) What kind of event we are looking at – a huge affair with lots of sponsors and propaganda OR simple like our meets are. We all agreed to make it big this time. But that requires a lot of homework obviously. (b) What do we call it – a seminar / blog camp / a workshop / a meet etc.? Most of us don’t want to call it blog camp and its not just about the nomenclature, we don’t want to repeat the chennai thing….we’ve got to do something different and new. something that hasn’t already been dealt with. It’s also to do with not setting expectations simply by avoiding using a name which has some associated with it. (c) What kind of audience/participation are we expecting? We can either try to reach out to people who are net literate, but not into blogging. This can be done by discussing some basic things like : what’s a blog..its uses, handyness and effectiveness; OR we can keep it amongst the circle of those who are already blogging but focus more on issues they still would want to know about. We understand that the two groups are mutually exclusive and we can’t expect an event to be attended by both kinds..(unless specifically organised so). So we have to promote the event accordingly. We haven’t really reached to a conclusion on how to do this. (d) What are we going to do in the event? After a lot of brainstorming we have more or less short listed two kinds of activities.. some sort of case studies where a presenter researches, substantiates with examples and presents a conclusion AND a group discussion where we have 2-3 panelists presenting their own POV. The audience could be allowed to ask questions/comment and eventually the conclusion is left to the audience. Now the content: We asked ourselves, what topics would draw *us* to a seminar kind of event. We came up with the following options. Following are topics for research, anybody can volunteer to take part in conducting these researches. 1. Personality of the blogger v. the blogger [suggested by Lijo, Prashant, Sanjukta] a more flashy name for this is Identity Management through Blog or the Psychology of the blog. A case study on this cannot be done unless a guineapig has volunteered for it. 2. Education, Abroad studies and blogging – A students perspective. [Mayank] 3. Shall we censor | Darker side of blogging [Sanjukta] She wants to know how reliable is the information on the blog, given the fact that blog owner can control and tamper everything..date of publishing the post, comments on it etc. Should we then really have absolutely free flow of all kinds of contents. Shall we allow inflammatory blogs in the name of freedom of speech. 4. Blogging trends accross nations – interaction / comparison with Indian Blogsphere. [Twilight Fairy] Suitable country for case study – Pakistan. We are similar yet different. We have a common cultural background and the same issues. At times even natural calamities strike us together. At times a hand of friendship has been extended across the border. We can research more on this though there is doubt as to how much certain blogs reflect the country and its people. But we can at least compare the general blogosphere as we perceive it. Following are topics for a group discussion. 1. Raveena Tandon – why are you not blogging? [Harneet, Yogesh, Nikhil]. I think these guys are just being plain mischievous. But we could definitely discuss something about celebrity bloggers. 2. Blogs, a threat to certain Industries [Prashant] – How a job of travel consultant is being replaced by travel blogs, and something about a different model of banking. Prashant can explain this more. 3. Horizontal Blog [Prashant] where one person is blogging about everything under the sun. It’s “perpendicular” to a topical blog. 4. Frequency of Posting – does it effect the quality of blogging [Prashant]. Special focus on the ppl who post 5 times a day. 5. Blogging Syndicates (groups in this context) and their impact on freedom of expression [Nikhil] : a celeb/popular blogger expresses a PoV on something and everybody else in his group tends to agree and only agree..even if they think otherwise. Let us ask ourselves are we really exercising our Freedom of Expression. 6. Sun V. Microsoft – The technical art of Blogsphere [Yogesh] He would have to explain this. 7. Business Blogging [Lijo] : An oft repeated subject. However one can speak on any breakthrough changes in it. 8. Blogging in Regional languages – Support and technology [Lijo, Amit gupta ] Lijo knows farmers in Kerala who blog in regional language. It might be interesting to find out about all the available technical and other support for regional blogging. 9. Ways of improving aggregation of blogs to better reflect quality of content. [Nikhil] He would have to explain this. 10. Usability issues with mobile blogging [Nikhil] as its gonna come up big time in the next couple of years this is the right time to start talking bout it. Besides these topics there’s general expectation from the event, common between Sanjukta, Harneet, Twilight Fairy, Mayank, Lijo (pls add ur name if someone’s left out), to reach out to those sections who are part of the same frame and yet unaware of blogs. – Media that reports on blogs – Govt. agencies, they have access to internet, power to regulate but don’t understand blogs. – Students, teachers, doctors – Creative minds at home..the home makers, retired persons etc. got access to net but not utilising – social activists, a lot of them have faintly heard about it and wanna know more about it. – Basically Anybody and everybody…as Amit Gupta said anybody can blog. The road ahead : So we really had a fruitful discussion on 7th. Now the next step. As of now we have somewhat decided to blog exhaustively about the topics we have suggested. Let’s first have a reality check on how easy it is to conduct these studies. We decided that we would come up with a group blog or a wiki for this discussion.
DBM XIV details
DBM XIV will be held on
7th Oct’06, 4:30 pm,
(steps near stein auditorium), India habitat Centre,
Lodhi road, New Delhi
Agenda : discussion for a seminar/workshop style meet, which could
itself be a starting step for a blogcamp
Please confirm your attendance in the comments.
