This saturday I attended a daylong event known as BeaverBarCamp which was a blast.
Highlights of the trip included: * meeting Ward Cunningham, inventor of Wiki (the original WikiWiki is still at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki) Ward is working on http://www.aboutus.org/ these days, which is a wikified company directory. * learning about the Firefox Funnel Factor (retention rate) from Alex Polvi http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2007/11/02/firefox%E2%80%99s-funnel-factor/ Alex also gave a short course in debugging memory leaks in Firefox. * learning some new python idioms from Lars * Meeting several people from Eugene who were completely unknown to me, including John Abbe of wagn.org which is a pretty snazzy mashup of wiki/hypercard/semi-structured data * talking with Shannon Dealy about his Mud Hut w/ DSL * learning about the nickle programming language from one of it's authors http://nickle.org/name.html * presenting at the 5-minute demo session being wowed by some of the other presenters (http://ridewithgps.com was the coolest, but they were all good)' * Being exposed to the Ignite format http://ignite.oreilly.com/ (you get 5 minutes and 20 slides @1 per 15 seconds; what would you talk about?) which was fun, and focused, I think an ignite style event would be real fun and fairly straightforward to organize. A number of regulars on this list made it to this event. And in my opinion it was well worth the effort. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
