BaaCamp, Madness up in Warkworth

February 8, 2007 7:49 am General

So BaaCamp, the equivalent of an O’Reilly organized Kiwi Foo Camp, was great fun, and juding by the blogs on Planet NZTech everyone who attended had similar experiences – thanks heaps Nat! Although I have to admit enjoying the conference overall, I was a bit knocked out by the travel to Sydney for LCA, and suspect I’m still carrying a bit of Glandular Fever around. From my perspective it probably wasn’t as productive as some of the other conferences I’ve been too. Don’t get me wrong, having the chance to meet a whole bunch of New Zealander’s doing cool stuff was a wonderful opportunity that I’ll treasure, but the focus of the conference was very Web 2.0 based (unstandable given the current climate for the IT space in NZ right now). It was cool to see Seth demoing his Firefox extension, awesome to meet Damien Bateman for the first time (the man behind Bens), great to catch up more with Jeff and Pia some more, play some Werewolf with a host of people while Chris and Artur narrated the plot, cool to see Phil hardware hacking controlling the car with his Nokia 770 widget hack, and wonderful to see and meet a whole bunch of new people and ideas coming out of the webspace like PlanHQ, Xero, throng, and a host of other wonderful ideas. Including Jayne. I was so impressed and proud of her participation during the conference, and delighted she felt comfortable talking to people about her awesome web idea – hopefully she’s been motivated by being there, and got some good advice about where to take it. Ideas like that don’t come around so often, so I’m rooting to see it live one day.

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