Pantnagar camp was initiated as a result of endeavor of students who visited the OSScamp Delhi September 2008 and got addicted with the idea behind these camps to propagate open source. Eventually the camp took place on 31st January and 1st February 2009 and saw convergence of geeks, uninitiated’s and enthusiasts from varied domains.

The first day at camp started with discussion on open source- codes and licensing issues by Kinshuk Sunil from OSSCube after campers got themselves registered. Manu Goel from Sapient talked and interacted on JavaScript, DOM and AJAX that followed a talk on OpenSolaris- features and technologies by Ajay Ahuja from SUN Microsystems. Students from college of technology, Toshendra Sharma explored prospects in 3D animation in Open Source with blender and Kanika Singhal explained PHP coding and PHP advantage over JavaScript, ASP etc. The day concluded with another talk on CSS by Manu Goel.