On 6/25/2013 12:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I couldn't make it to the conference, but from what I heard, a lot of
hatchets were buried and a lot of issues were sorted out as a result of
meeting in person. That should never be underestimated. :) In this day
and age of online personae, it's all too easy to forget that there are
real, living, breathing people behind the personae. Meeting in person
has a way of sorting things out in a way no amount of email, forum, or
online chat could ever do.
+1
The conference was immensely valuable.
The presentations themselves are just the sparks. The real stuff happens in
discussions before and after.
It's like something a friend of mine told me. He realized after a few years that
the real business of the company he worked for happened at lunch, and that by
bringing his own and eating it at his desk he wound up sabotaging his career.
BTW, personally I'm a lot more free with my thoughts & opinions when I'm not
being recorded for posterity and data mining, as happens with all online
interactions. There's a lot to be said for meeting people off the record to get
those sausages made :-)
