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Bambi 2.0

Bambi is a small coding-fest that we organise in our group at GE Healthcare. It was inspired by Yahoo Hackday after I heard about it at BarCamp Bangalore last year. I still remember, I came back all charged up after BarCamp and with some help from Arun B, we put together the first version of Bambi. Ours was a small team, roughly about 60 people, so spreading the news was not much of a problem. Getting people out of their workload was a bigger problem. The load is high and the work is, I guess, somewhat exciting ;-) 

It is sometimes tough to lure people out of writing indexing algorithms for proprietary image databases or mitral-valve plane adjusters for segmentation of the human heart.

 

 

Today we had the demos for Bambi 2.0

The quality of demos were much improved and people came on the last day with some utterly cool demos. Unfortunately, I do not think I can write about them in detail owing to Intellectual Property issues but a mash of  Biometrics, Bluetooth, MRI scanners and Yahoo widgets 4 can be quite a potent combination !

 

Software programmers and art do not always go together.

 

A bunch of people had questions about the name and the etymology. The rest were clueless and could not allow such things to bother their memory allocation. Today it is better; I recall with mild amusement and shudder how I had to remind people it is not "Bumbee".

 

And the butterfly is not  "Bum - bee".

 

Comments

  1. AnonymousMon Apr 02, 01:21:00 AM CST

    hi Shourya,

    Looks like BCB has been a source of ideas to you as well. I took back " SCRUM your development " back to my company from the first edition. This time i made a lot of friends. Bambi looks great!
    Syed Nazir Razik

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  2. vibMon Apr 02, 02:06:00 PM CST

    Hie Shourya,

    Your presentation was very good, and i learned a lot from it...i will really appriciate if you can put those slides on slideshare...or somewhere!

    And I really liked that Road Ahead slide: Sustain, Spread, Measure, Evolve.

    And this particular slide is really going to help me a lot in my project BforBlogs.com...

    Allthough I have lots of strategies, for development, & marketing of BforBlogs.com , but after Barcamp I've started re-evaluating them.

    regards.
    vib.

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