Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
I’ve been racking my brains over this blog post ever since Bloglines picked it up for me (come on, who else has an RSS Search Criteria on their name). I think it was the Irish couple next to me during Dan Gilmour’s talk, but I’m not 100% sure. It’s the typical conference trick from Ewan – I can bump into this person in two years and not recognise them, but I’ll still be instantly recognisable to them in my kilt.
And after the welcome distraction of ConConUK and OPL, let’s get back to looking at some more of the memorable sessions (for me) at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference 2004 (sometimes called Etcon, sometimes called Etech, always mentioned on IRC…)
ConConUK Rocked! Okay I paraphrased Danny O’Brien there, but his contribution to ConConUK shouldn’t be ignored. He’s blogged the origins of ConConUSA (but as usual, they drop the USA as we’ll naturally assume the world defaults to America), and thanks to that, and everyone moaning “why don’t we have something like that,” ConConUK was born, wiki’ed as an idea, solidified, and “organised” in just under a week. Okay the Dover Castle wasn’t the perfect location for 95 people to turn up and find out what they missed at O’Reilly’s San Diego holiday, but I think we all overcame the adversities
…and it seemed to have gone quite well. More later, like after I sleep.
Just like they promised last week NTK plugs ConConUK… We have no idea how this happened, but it does appear to be happening. After an engagingly shambolic West Coast debut, ETCon catchup CONCON comes to the UK this Monday evening, at the Dover Castle pub in Weymouth Mews, London W1. Unless someone zips back from this weekend’s CodeCon, it’ll mostly be a speedy Emerging Tech deconstruction (because you surely haven’t heard enough of that), with extra status reports promised from Mr MySociety, Tom Steinberg, and perhaps some late chocolate news from Dave. If ConCon US is anything to go by,
Slight delay in getting some more Etech reports up – from picking up the poisioned chalice of organising ConConUK (big thumbs up to Danny O’Brien for some helpful “here’s how I attempted to cock up ConConUSA and failed” email todo.txt files), through getting some (lots!) of code checked out for something new next week (can I drop any more hints on this?), and hacking an electronic Go board under OPL for some people I met at Etech. If you’re around on Monday at ConConUK, say hi. If not, then say hi anyway through the mystic power of comments. And the
