Posted by Scott Laird
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:29:52 GMT
I’m in Vancouver for Bar Camp this weekend. We started off this afternoon with a barbecue at Bryght’s new offices and then moved on to Workspace. It’s been a couple years since I was last in Vancouver, and I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to make it back–considering how active Vancouver’s startup and open-source scene is, I really should drive up more frequently.
Anyway, if you’re at Barcamp and interested in Typo (or Rails, or Google, or whatever), then stop by and say hi.
Tags barcamp, bryght, geekcamp, vancouver | 1 comment
Posted by Scott Laird
Sun, 06 Nov 2005 02:21:12 GMT
I’m spending the day at the Seattle Mind Camp. The network has been a bit flaky for most of the day, but I think it’s finally under control, so I’m taking the chance to upload a couple dozen shots to Flickr.
I’m kind of overwhelmed with content right now, and I’m not sure that I’ve been making the right choices when it comes to which sessions to attend, but I’m enjoying myself one way or another. On the cool hardware front, I finally had a chance to try out a head-mounted display from Microvision. Cool, but the model that I tried was a bit old and hard to read. I think I would have had a nasty headache if I’d used it for more then 5 minutes, but the owner said that he’d felt the same way at first and was able to use it for 5 hours without ill effect. I also got to drive the Titan Robotics Club’s robot a bit. I’m still waiting to use the Segway.
Later tonight, I’m going to run a “what do you wish that you could do with your blog that you can’t right now” session. If you’re here and you’re able to get enough connectivity to read this, then please stop by at 11:00 tonight. I’d love to find new ideas to snarf into Typo, although I’m really more interested in getting a better grip on how people use blogs and where we’re heading. I’ve talked with several people who are interested in discussing various aspects of Typo and directed one towards the Typo Theme Contest.
Tags geekcamp, mindcamp, mindcamp1.0, seattle | 1 comment
Posted by Scott Laird
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:42:57 GMT
Apparently I need to track more local blogs, because I missed the original announcement of the Seattle MindCamp. Fortunately, Ted Leung pointed it out to me, or I probably would have missed it entirely. This should be interesting–it’s essentially a local version of Foo Camp (or Bar Camp), held in an office building over a 26-hour span during the first weekend in November.
From the MindCamp website:
Seattle Mind Camp is a self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab. What happens when you put 150 of Seattle’s smartest geeks in an empty office building for 24 hours? We’re not sure either, but we’d like to find out. It’s time to meet and connect with those involved in the interesting projects going on in Seattle in a relaxed environment.
What: A weekend, 24-hour, multi-track event. Think huge space with breakout rooms, broadband Wi-Fi, projectors, white boards - and you.
Who: 150 of Seattle’s forward thinkers: techies, entrepreneurs, executives, gamers, musicians, and anyone else with a great idea.
When: Mind Camp will take place on November 5-6
Why?: You know all those hallway conversations that never get to flourish during a “normal” conference? Now they will.
Seattle Mind Camp is completely free of charge, and registration will begin very soon. In the meantime, check out the About page for a little more information.
It looks like there are still a few spots left, but I doubt they’ll last very long.
Update: In the spirit of information spreading, I should probably mention Seattle Code Camp, which is happening this weekend. From looking at the code camp website, it looks a bit more organized, with pre-scheduled talks, and there seems to be a big Microsoft/C#/.NET focus on a lot of the events. There are a couple Perl/Linux sessions and an introduction to Ruby, as well as a pair of Cocoa/Objective C talks, but most of the content seems to be “cool new stuff in C#.” Which is fine, but it’s not really my sort of conference. MindCamp, on the other hand, seems to be drawing a more diverse crowd, with a number of open source people on the roster.
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