Roland Tanglao's Weblog

Really enjoyed my chats with Miriam at the very productive :-) after DrupalCamp session at Tortilla Flats (our conversation about design, art, etc. was much better than the food!) and the dialogue and perspective that Miriam brought to the BlogHerCon and Designing for Novice Users sessions at BarCamp. Check out Miriam's notes on the 2 camps for something more insightful! See you in Vancouver, Miriam!

Despite his fondness for hanging with Boris until odd hours, it was great to meet BarCamp and DemoCamp organizer David Crow (I learned alot from him that we will apply to forthcoming BarCamp Vancouver which will be in August (got a space? let me know!) and Bar Camp Whistler in Winter 2007 which Andre Charland will be organizing and I'll be doing a wee bit of help) and even nicer to hear him come on board as Executive Director of the Innovation Commons. Go David go!

BarCamp Tdot was a blast. This is the 1st of a bunch of stream of consciousness raves (as opposed to rants) for the cool people I met.

Thank-you Jay for taking over the running of BarCamp Tdot from the partying and participating David Crow (I am sorry David that teh Boris forced you to stay up all hours :-) ! ) Great organization and great venue (well except for the noise from loud talkers like Boris and myself, next time we need a side track/loud talkers room!)

I'd really like to go to BarCamp TDot and the Mesh Conference in Toronto since I could slip in a visit to my brother and his family as well as learn lots and meet some very smart people from the rest of Canada (since most of the people I know in Web 2.0 are on the West Coast of North America) who get things done in the Web 2.0 space.

BarCamp TDot is more my style (and the organizers think :-) I am coming because I sort of suggested it in my CanadaCamp post) so I am trying to see if I can find a way for me to go to BarCAmp TDot (and money permitting the Mesh Conference) that makes sense to my family and Bryght.

While I love "normal" conferences (and Gnomedex is definitely one of the best and hopefully I will be there this year again as well!), I personally get more out of unconferences like Northern Voice Moosecamp and BarCamp Amsterdam (to gratuitously name drop the unconferences I have helped organize).

Net net as they say, Mesh has lots of great people so I am sure it will turn out great regardless of what myself and Boris pontificate online about it :-) !