My pix are below, but I certainly wasn’t alone in taking pix for the conference. There are lots more here and here.
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Wordcamp SF 2008 Follow Up
Had a great time at this year’s Wordcamp in San Francisco. I met a lot of great people and had a lot of great conversations and I think, got some pretty decent photographs of the event.
I did have some mixed feelings about the event, but I recognize that creating a low cost, high quality confernce a is a series of trade-offs and I think the Wordcamp organizers made a lot of good decisions.
- Two tracks, one for users and one for devs.
This was smart as it got everyone together in the same facility on the same day, and I’m not a dev, so there were no decisions to make :-). - The UCSF facility is awesome.
Plenty of space to run the two track event and let people spread out, take notes, Twitter, blog, process photos etc. The only problem with this place is, it’s out in the middle of nowhere. I suspect those that drove were pretty happy with parking. - The WiFi was great!
(But I still used my EVDO card to let other folks use the bandwidth). This is a pretty common complaint at events and the UCSF folks clearly had some bandwidth and a well managed network. - It felt big.
This is both a point for and against the conference. I miss the intimacy of the Swedish American Hall, but I’m excited for WordPress’ explosive growth. I didn’t get to talk to everyone I wanted to, but there is always the Internets.
I didn’t take many notes, but I did take a lot of pictures. Here are some links to folks who did blog.
- Top 10 WordPress plugins
- All day coverage – The Web Life
- All Things D
- Lorelle on WordPress
- Ma.tt’s list of photographs
Finally, a huge thanks to Matt and all the folks who helped with the conference.
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Wordcamp SF 2008 Pictures
Here are my pix from this year’s Wordcamp.
After a brief shut down in the extra curricular activities, I’ll be out and about in the real world (errr…. echo chamber) real soon now.
Here are a couple of events you can spot me at in the next couple of weeks.
Wordcamp 2008
While I haven’t blogged as much in the last year as I would have like to, the crowd that Wordcamp attracts is a great one. Great presentations of the past have included Jeremy Wright, Rashmi Sinha, Om Malik and John C. Dvorak.
This year’s lineup looks to be just as promising.
Wordcamp SF 2008 takes place this Saturday, August 16, 2008 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in in San Francisco, CA.
Here are some of my pictures from last year’s Wordcamp.
Gnomedex 2008
It’s kind of funny, for all the years I’ve spent in tech, Gnomedex 2006 was really my first tech conference. Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex conference always has good presentations up front and even better conversations in the hallway.
Hell, if nothing else, I like going to see who is going to get obliterated by Dave Winer (last year was Jason Calacanis).
Gnomedex 2008 takes place August 21st through 23rd, 2008 at Bell Harbor Conference Center here in Seattle, WA.
Here are some pictures I took at Gnomedex 2007.
Meet up?
Drop me a line if you’re planning on attending and would like to meet up.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
I’ve been taking pictures of events for almost a year now and SXSWi was clearly the biggest event that I had undertaken. South by Southwest is both rewarding and grueling in the sense that meeting great folks, learning new things, trying to upload photos in somewhat real time while trying to get sleep is pretty difficult. You can sleep when you’re dead…
I’m not taking pictures for anything other than fun and personal enrichment (and to give something back to the folks who give so much of themselves to putting on these events). I really enjoy the work that Kris Krug [kk+] and Scott Beale [Laughing Squid] have been doing for years and hope to be as good as they are some day. I’m really thankful for all the tips and tricks that they have shared with me in the last year.
Not all the photos are gems, but I cut this group of pictures down from 700 pictures that I took down to about 160. If you want to see with folks on Flickr like best, go here for my 12 most “interesting” photos from South by Southwest Interactive 2008.
FYI – I’m shooting on a Canon Rebel XTi
You can view the rest of my Flickr stream here.
My pals Lee and Sachi LeFever of CommonCraft have done it again, just in time for SXSW. These guys do a really great job of explaining difficult topics in “plain english.” These videos are really great if you are just starting out trying to figure out this strange online world.
At last year’s SXSWi in Austin, TX, Twitter broke for the first time, err, um, was a break through product that helped people quickly figure out where the cool parties were and helped them track down their friends without calling them.
Since then, Twitter has been quickly adopted (and broken) by at least some of the masses (myself included).
I didn’t really get Twitter at first and I thought that it represented all the worst things about blogging (navel gazing, echo chamber). Here is a link to the day I spent talking about my cat in protest of Twitter. I even annoyed myself.
Eventually, I came around…
So, what the heck is Twitter? If you follow me on Facebook, you’ve probably seen my rapidly changing status. That’s coming from Twitter. And while I do kid about the Twitter uptime, by and large, they’ve created an incredible service based on something very simple.
Here’s CommonCraft on Twitter in Plain English.
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SXSW Bound
I’m excited to be heading down to Austin once again for the yearly SXSWi Festival in Austin, Texas from Friday March 7th until Tuesday March 11. That little “i” next to SXSW means I’m not going to the film thing or the the music thing, I’m going to the nerd thing.
From last year’s SXSWi, here’s Ze Frank explaining SXSWi.
[thanks for the pointer/embed code, Scott Beale]
One day, when the kids are older, I’ll drag my wife out to Austin and we’ll do both Music and Interactive. Music, in particular, looks to be amazing.
Anyhow, if you are heading down and want to say hi, you can get in touch with me on my phone (if you have it), email me at randy@boxbe.com, direct message me on Twitter or turn up near me at one of the panels or parties I’m planning on attending.
Hope to see you there.
Start your browsers and whip out your credit card, our kind neighbors to the north have activated registration.
To quote the website –
Northern Voice is a two-day, non-profit personal blogging and social media conference that’s being held at the Forestry Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall, UBC main campus, Vancouver, Canada on February 22-23, 2008. This is the 4th annual incarnation of this event, see the 2005, 2006 and 2007 websites for previous information.
The thing that makes Northern Voice great is the people. Last year, both the speakers and the attendees were incredible and I can’t wait to catch up with some of those folks again this year. I learned a lot, shared a lot and made some new friends and acquaintances.
Hope to see you there.
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Pix from Gnomedex
Not sure why I didn’t think of this before, but thanks Paul Stamatiou for reminding me of this lovely tool.
Here is a slideshow of my Flickr pictures from Gnomedex 2007.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
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Gnomedexmen ’07 comic book cover
Ah Comic Life, how I’ve wanted to use you for some time. Gnomedex ’07 was full of comic book characters so it only seems appropriate to create a comic to summarize the experience.
I had a great time at the conference and met a lot of great people. Now, to go get some social network fatigue…
A larger image is on Flickr. Please share.
