Conferences
I recently spent just over a week down in the SF area attending conferences.
First up was the O’Reilly “Where 2.0” conference in San Jose.
Right after that was the Google Developer Day.
Last, but not least was WhereCamp, held at the Yahoo! campus.
The first one (Where 2.0) was a normal conference, and fairly expensive, but the other two were free. The Google Developer Day was paid for by Google (of course) but WhereCamp was done as a BarCamp, with no paid speakers and free admission and (even) free food. Interestingly enough, I enjoyed the two free conferences more than the paid one. The BarCamp model might be the wave of the future!
I gave a short (lightning) talk at WhereCamp, and also held a session on ZAT. Met several interesting people, and (finally) got a chance to talk to the Platial people, which is funny since they are located here in Portland.