Well, here it is: the first post on a brand-spanking new blog. Why am I subjecting myself (and others!) to my individual brand of schizophrenic writings...
The main reason I decided to join the masses (by creating a blog) is the people I met at BarCampMilwaukee last weekend (Sept 30-Oct 1).
BarCampMilwaukee (BCM) was graciously hosted by the folks at BucketWorks. Bucketworks is a great space, a physical wiki of sorts. I'm jealous we don't have something similar in Madison (at least that I'm aware of). I led two session at BCM:
- An Intro to Drupal
- Drupal Development Basics
In addition I attended sessions on Ruby on Rails, VOIP on Asterisk, Network Packet Analysis, First Robotics, Non-Profit Technology, Played some Werewolf, A Mini-Mash Pit, Microformats, Adventures in Web Publishing, Virtual Government, ending with more Non-Profit Tech talk.
Some of the people I met, or I saw at multiple sessions:
For those of you who like pictures there are photos on Flickr.
Needless to say it was an exhausting weekend. I'm still decompressing in some ways... I (among others) have committed to organizing a BarCamp in Madison. Apparently we've got a site (!) already. Hopefully we'll have a wiki and mailing list setup by the end of next week to get the ball rolling.
