Blog Entry

BarCamp notes

Alright, the dust has settled and I think I've gotten up the energy to toss up my thoughts.

• It was great to meet a bunch of the local Vancouver tech community. I've followed a number of people around town for a while and it was nice to either see them again, or meet them for the first time.
• I was slightly disappointed at the fact that Vancouver tech community is apparently a synonym for Vancouver web startup community. This city has a large variety number of companies involved other areas, including active video game and film/television production fields. It would have good to have a more diverse representation, but I'm not sure how much we can do to suit everyone in 24 hours.
• Helping with organization and running the show introduced me to a whole new selection of people, who I'm quite pleased to have met.
• People mentioned having closing remarks, instead of the gradual fading out like we did, which I agree would have been a nice wrap up.
• Spreading the action over another day, and doing everything at less intensity would have caused a bit less burnout on a lot of people's parts.

I also added two new domains to my collection this weekend, and figure its only fair to give credit to who thought them up:

• MyUrlIsTooLong.com -- Boris after hearing me mention my UBC site is too long to say. This was also the URL I stuck on my talk slides, so chances are that's how most peolpe have found their way here.
• MyLastNameIsTooLong.com -- Cathy complaining about my last name being too hard to remember when tagging Flickr photos