First pipesCamp :

The first pipesCamp was held on December 23, 2007 in Chennai, India. Big kudos to everyone for making this event a great success. Stay tuned for the photos and videos from the event.

Blog post on the first pipes camp with few photos- By Srinivasan

Next pipesCamp :

We promise you that the next pipesCamp event will be bigger and better. We are also in the process of launching a dedicated site at www.pipescamp.in. If you have time and patience to contribute, feel free to get in touch with us. Thanks to sudar for the domain registeration.

Links & Tags

Site............. : http://pipesCamp.pbwiki.com

Registration: http://pipescamp.pbwiki.com/Conference+Planning+Resources

Upcoming... : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/388488

Y! Groups... : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pipesCamp/

Tags............ : pipesCamp , pipesCampChennai

Instructions and HOW-TO

• Very new to pipe and want to know something about it? Then start here Pipes - FAQ.

Hackday Pipes

• MTC Mashup: Given a bus number, get the bus route and plot it on a map: http://pipes.yahoo.com/siddhi/mtcmashup
• Ego Search: Given your name and your most updated blog/web domain name, this pipe will show you how popular you are.. boost your egos!
• pipescamp iced - pipescamp indicator of content distrubution ( related content from technorati, y!search pipescamp y!group and flickr with graph from google charts)

Agenda

• Introduction to Yahoo! pipes
• History and evolution of Pipes
• Yahoo! pipes from a blogger's perspective
• Yahoo! pipes from a developer's perspective
• Experiments with pipes
• Workshops / Tutorials
• Building a community for collaborating with pipes
• Feature requests for Yahoo! Pipes? - api, import/export, more operators, support for 3rd party widgets?
• There will also be a contest running through out the day for the "Best Pipes" created / showcased at pipesCamp ,with prizes announced at the end of the day. So create times / check out the yahoo! pipes site or blog, and get started !

Talks

• End-user programming & Yahoo! pipes- Bhasker V Kode, CTO, Orange Cube
• Pipes Walkthrough (Courtesy: Yahoo! Pipes team), Bhasker V Kode
• Pipes- on your iPhone and your blogs, Prabhu
• "Pipes in SecondLife", Labsji
• "Mashups, Mindshare and Money" & an Introduction to Proto.in - Narain, Equvia Webservices 
  • Click on the above links to view the presentation in Slide Share
• Panel Discussion , Q & A ,

• Concluding talks

Pipes Showcase , "Best Pipes" Awards

• How could u have something to do with pipes without actually having a showcase around it ! :)
• So check out the yahoo! pipes site or blog, hackday , the pipes discussion board and get started !
• NOTE: Please do get your laptops if possible for the pipes hackday. The room is equipped with a wifi connection

In the news

• First pipesCamp unconference
• Desistartups : Camp for Yahoo! pipes
• Trak.in :hover.in organizing first pipesCamp event
• PipesCamp, Chennai
• Webyantra: writeup about pipesCamp
• Labnol.org : pipesCamp event info
• Unconference on Yahoo Pipes 
• PipesCamp in Chennai : A Mashup Unconference

Help out

• Get in touch with Bhasker V Kode(kode@hover.in) or Prabhu (prabhu@prabhu-s.com) to help organise the event
• Spread the word by tagging your post / bookmarks with tag pipesCamp or pipescampchennai1
• Join the pipesCamp group. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pipesCamp/
• Attend/Watch/Spread pipesCamp in upcoming events
• Design widgets and logo's (current logo designed by Sujanan )
• Help sponsor a dedicated site for pipesCamp, among other event expenses. Would your company like to particpate as a sponsor , use the contact form to get in touch with the organizers