happy weekend / inspiration - Dabbawala : Master of Delivering

Each day in Mumbai more than 4000 Dabbawala in white outfits and matching hats deliver 175,000 lunch boxes by foot, train, bicycle and even carried on top of their heads to the respective office buildings. Despite the unsophisticated mode of transport, the lunches always gets delivered just in time.

Checkout the following video, which looks at the dabbawalla’s art of delivering in time with their relatively low-technology and but with a remarkably uninterrupted services.

Lesson to takeaway: They teach us to be staying focused, stick with the dead lines and keep shipping our products even with the minimal available infrastructure!

Coworkable.com proud to be part of BarCamp Bangalore 13

Coworkable.com is proud to be part of organizing BarCamp Bangalore 2013 unconference along with SAP India on 2nd March 2013 at SAP Labs, Whitefield, Bangalore. SAP Labs India is so generous and more supportive to open up their entire awesome cool campus for the event. Website: BarCamp Bangalore XIII

(For those of you who are new to BarCamp, BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences) primarily focused around technology and the Web. They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. More at Wikipedia.)

At the BarCamp Bangalore event, there were around 64 bunches of interesting, informative sessions. All the session are highly interactive and we had a loads of exciting networking, demos, discussions with versatile of quite interesting peoples. Full session lists.

In spite of being a weekend, the turnout for the BarCamp Bangalore XIII event was really very big. Just couple of snaps from the BarCamp Bangalore XIII event:

The volunteers did an amazing job in coordinating things well in every part and making the event one of the most successful versions of BarCamp Bangalore event.

Photo credits: Suhair liyakath, Ninad Pundalik, Santosh Ganjur, Sathyajith Bhat, Soham Mondal