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b"As luck has it, we had our Webcamp during Diwali: a festival of lights celebrated by the Indian community. While we do miss our fair share of murukku, we have a great lineup of speakers who were kind enough to spend time with us and share their expertise:\\n\\n\\tYam Tong Woo \\u2013\\xa0My Blind Sight: How Technology Empowers The Visually Impaired\\n\\tPatrick Lim, Founder of Greenroom136 \\u2013\\xa010 Lessons I've Learned From Project ConcreteJungle Interviewees\\n\\tMats Engstrom, CTO of ViA International \\u2013\\xa0Tweet In, Tweet Out\\n\\tTristan Gomez, MindValley \\u2013\\xa0Meaningful Metrics\\n\\tMilad Rastian \\u2013\\xa0Configure and Manage Your Servers in a FLASH with Puppet\\n\\nSummary\\nThe event kicked off with Yam Tong Woo, a visually impaired automative engineer who lost his sight due to a bacterial infection. With brimming positive energy and enthusiasm, he shared how the Internet and the mobile web transformed and empowered his daily life. During this talk, he presented a live demo on how the visually impaired access the Internet and offers his advice on the current state of assistive technology and issues he faced. As a bonus, he shared his passion for golf and how he's able to continue to play the sport. He currently maintains a blog called My Blind Sight.\\n\\nThe Webcampers were in for a treat as Patrick Lim recorded episode 10 of Project ConcreteJungle podcast live. Check out his talk with lessons he'd learned from the nine highly entrepreneurial guests he had on Project ConcreteJungle, closing with one bonus lesson that involved the common trait he observed from all interviewees. What's the common traits that they had in common? You have to listen in to find out!\\n\\nArmed with a credit card terminal, Mats Engstrom presented his geeky little side project to make a credit card terminal print live tweets from Twitter. Dig into his adventures of exploring and using the Twitter API and the journey of making the tweet printing credit card terminal. For electronic junkies out there, you know you'd want to make one of these ;).\\n\\nFor business owners out there who's looking into seeing their ROI of their campaigns, we have the perfect talk for you: Tristan Gomez was in the house talking about meaningful metrics \\u2013 and in 26 minutes he shared about what makes certain data and numbers in your report meaningful, how to craft your metrics and even a case study on how Mindvalley is able to harness its power to track sales and conversions.\\n\\nClosing the event is Milad Rastian, a sysadmin talking about the importance of tools to automate the heck out of thankless jobs of configuring and managing your servers. In the talk, he shared his experiences in performing the task, open source tools available and specifically talks about he used Puppet to do his job. After all, it great to have fun back in the sysadmin world ;).\\nHelp Wanted\\nThe WCKL team is looking for awesome volunteers to bring Webcamp beyond the confinements of Kuala Lumpur! \\xa0If you love what we are doing, ping our Papa Smurf, Wu Han and we'll bring awesomeness to the world!\\n\\nHelp that #WCKL needed:\\n\\n\\tNetworkers to make #WCKL newcomers at home during events :)\\n\\tEvent photographers\\n\\tGraphic designers to spice up our site (and other promotional swag)\\n\\tAudio/video editors to make our recordings awesome!\\n\\tEvent planners to organize more *Camps in Malaysia\\n\\nPhoto credit: Anil Wadghule\\xa0[Source]"