This is getting more and more exciting, feels like our Tech crowd is coming to life. Thanks to Google & Blogger.com there is an upcoming get together at Lahore called “Lahore Blogger Meet up”. Historically speaking this is the second blogger get together in Lahore, the first one was arranged by BuzzVines on 14th August 2007 with a controversial “I still love Pakistan” campaign (yeh it was me :P )  and this one organized by Google Pakistan and you are invited if you:

• Want to learn what blogging is?
• Have a blog but how can I earn from it?
• Am earning by blogging but very little; how can I increase my earnings?
• Am a pro-bloggers and want to share my secrets on how to setup & earn from blogging…
• Want to see what kind of ppl are bloggers ;)
• Networking & socializing…
• Other:

So who is coming up, well i am going to drop by as its on Sunday so i ll probably utilize my lay around tv time to a more productive socialize & pro-bloggers meet up, apart from that i have heard Pakistan’s pro bloggers are going to make a keynote on their success story :

1. Sizlopedia.com (Saad Hamid)
2. PinkWool.com (Maryam Nasim)
3. Sizzledcore.com (Haris Nadeem)
4. For Beginners: Blogging & how to start earning from it? (Badar Khushnood)
5. For Advanced Users: Tools for professional blogging! (Badar Khushnood)

Time & Venue:

• Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008
• Time: 3:00pm – 6:00pm
• Location: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
• Town: DHA
• City/Country: Lahore, Pakistan
• Registration: Registration is FREE but the seats are limited.

Blogger Meetup Imp Links

1. Facebook Event Page
2. Registration for Bloggers Meet up

What others are saying

• BuzzVines Lahore Blogger Meetup
• Lahore Met Blogs – Lahore Blogger Meetup
• Light Within – Lahore Bloggers Meetup

Seems like a really positive movement in our tech crowd, recently ‘The Interaction Design Center’ organized ‘World Usability Day’ at the UMT campus here in Lahore. When i heard about the event i was a bit surprised as i never expected “A World Usability day” here in Pakistan, but really happy to know that it did.

I reached the event at around 10:20, expected start time was 10am but it started a little late so i was technically not a late comer. There was a tremendous energy and excitement in the people who organized it and the people who came to attended it. Imran hussain started off the event with a welcome note and Adnan was the official host and i guess the brains behind the event. Google sponsored the event along with a live international video link with the creator of Google MapMaker (Lalit Ktaragadda at Google India), quite interesting and well prepared presentation. The biggest turn off was the speech by the Dr. Tanvir Iqbal from UET lahore, seemed like he wasn’t prepared or was not well guided on what the actual event was about.

I couldn’t hang around to attend the complete event so i skipped off during the tea break as i had a bunch of tickets to resolve and work to look after but over all i really appreciate the effort, it a positive movement and i hope in future we get to see and attend many such tech conferences in Lahore.

• Facebook Event Link
• Interaction Design Center
  
• University of Management Sciences