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Day 1 of GHC India 2014


It’s super exciting to attend Grace Hopper Conference India 2014.

The first day had 2 parallel day-long events – a hackathon and a bootcamp on Ruby on Rails. Since I didn’t pre-register for the hackahon, I attended the Bootcamp during the first half and some time in the second half. But most of the second half I sat through the Hackathon presentations! And they were amazing. Women from Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore teamed up and built amazing stuff over a period of 2 months. There were students and as well as working professionals who took time out of their professional and personal commitments and worked on their ideas to create a product with value to the society.

One of them was a mobile app which connects people who have stuffs which they want to give away with the people who needs that stuff and there’s no money involved in the transaction. Coincidentally, a few days back a friend was looking for just the same thing after he faced the problem of loads of not-being-used-anymore stuffs that he had bought for his baby.

Then there was another app which converted voice to sign languages which can be used to communicate with a differently abled people. Another app made it easy to lodge complaints related to civic amenities and that complaint gets registered to the BBMP website. It was amazing to learn about every one of the presentations!

The presenters at the bootcamp were good too. And Ruby on Rails being a framework where you can actually make your app online in just a couple of minutes it was a good choice. But there were a few technical glitches. But I think it was good enough to invoke interest among those who wish to implement their ideas quickly or pursue learning more about Rails framework.