I signed up for O'Reilly's EuroOSCON conference on a whim, but ended up having a really great time there. Well, I got a lot out of the conference sessions. Not being a supercelebrity internet personality like Erik, I mostly just sulked in the hallways like a lost puppy instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to network with some of the great names in the open source community. But there were a lot of excellent presentations and I left with a lot of things to think about.
Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeir Hansson recognized me and we spent a little time chatting--when he wasn't interrupted by others wanting to talk to him--about the soon to be released 1.0 version of Rails and some ideas of things that I could contribute to the framework if I ever stopped being lazy and decided to do something positive with my life.
David was nice enough to feature screenshots of our three websites as part of his keynote presentation on Thursday. I wonder if we got any traffic from the mention.
I attended the conference as a sort of post modern geek. While everyone else seemed to be crammed in the halls, leaching off the free wi-fi or exchanging snide comments about the presenters over IRC, I came without electronics of any kind. Not even my watch was digital.
I really intended to write a series of blog entries about the sessions, and kept pretty detailed notes for the first day or so. But then I just got lazy and gave up. So this is all you will get.
