About Seattle Mind Camp 1.0

Too much has been post already about this in spite of only finish two days ago so I will be brief (see the Seattle PI article for a good summary or search for mindcamp10 in technorati). It was a very cool gathering, I had a lot of fun and I want to attend again in six months when Andru organizes this again (big thanks Andru!!). I went there with Jim, Michael and Kirk from my company (and yes, we also got lost by looking at Google Maps, more on this on a separate post). I really like the format (a self-organizing event) and how that facilitated the free flow of discussion. Some of the meetings were more structured (Jeff Barr even had pretty slides in his Amazon’s Mechanical Turk presentation) while other where more like everyone talking at the same time and going totally off topic in the middle but both styles were good in their own terms. The dinner was even better than I expected from a geek gathering (no microwaved pizza). I met a lot of interesting people as well which was my initial goal and I even hooked up again with a person I met two years ago in Tokyo and I had not seen since. I will be posting about some of the topics separately.

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