The Techකතා Big Meetup
After participating in some of the recent tech meetups around Colombo, This seems to be more of a success. It was held in DHPL Building on 14th July 2014 with a participation of over 100 Geeks from around the country.
With a well organized agenda, interesting topics and discussions about Mobile App Development and 3D Printing, and a great Q & A Session.
I was actually a little bit late when i reached the place, and the Mobile App Development Session by Microsoft Sri lanka was already in progress. It was about the Windows App Studio . It uses a Wizard based navigation to let users easily create a fully featured application, which then can be downloaded and published on the store, or can use the source code to further develop the app using Visual Studio.
Next session was an in depth Development Session about Windows mobile applications using Visual Studio. Which covered details about the latest Windows 8.1 development and its new features, including the ability to develop a single application to be compatible with both the Window 8.1 and Windows Mobile 8.1 with only a slight modification to the code.
Then comes the Q & A Session which consisted of a panel of 3 people to answer the questions from the Audience. Everyone came up with questions regarding Mobile Development until they were told that the Q & A Session was for any technology related question. That’s when the interesting questions came up and made an really interesting session with lots of knowledge on different areas of technologies, and not to forget the fun of joking around of some of the well known big companies and there services.
Next was the most awaited 3D printing session by Nissanga Warnapura of 3D Concept Studio. While explaining how 3D printing works and details about the methods and materials and the real world usage of 3D printing, that became a very interesting session for everyone, specially with the live printing demonstration with an Ultimaker2 3D printer. Look what it printed! [ LINK HERE ]
After that it was the time for Leap Motion and Hackernest. Leapmotion demo was conducted by Redline Technologies, while explaining the current limitations of input devices for some of the practical situations, and the usage of a handsfree device like Leapmotion in such cases, which is why its becoming popular nowadays.
The last session, HackerNest was about a new Social meetup starting up in Sri lanka. Its where people from different areas in technology get together and have a casual talk and get to know each other.
Everyone had an interesting and a useful time. It wasn’t just a “Listen to the speakers” type event, but more of a fun event for all the geeks. also, Good Snacks and Lunch made everyone focus better without being hungry 
Thanks Kalinga and Techkatha and everyone else who organized the great event and looking forward for the next meetup!