BarCamp Boston 4
Apr. 27th, 2009 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progHighlight of the weekend was a last-minute decision to attend BarCamp Boston 4. This was the second "Unconference" I'd attended, after last year's GameLoop (which was, in turn, inspired by BarCamp Boston 3). I had a great time, learned a lot and met lots of cool people. Inspired to try proposing some talks myself, next time I attend something like this.
All attendees were asked to identify themselves with three info-tags. I chose Perl, Consulting, and DIY Television. I ended up leaning most heavily on the latter, unsurprisingly, as TV production's what currently on the upswing in my personal obsessionery. And lo, serendipity smiled upon me: I found myself talking to people who work with NPR and WGBH (Boston's PBS affiliate), just a day after deciding that public broadcasting represents a good first place to start my little research project into up-marketing The Gameshelf. Sent out a passel of followup email this morning, and have high hopes that it will lead to some interesting conversations.
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dariusk for helping these introductions along; a natural facilitator, he was a force of nature Saturday morning, all but bodily dragging people around the room in order to arrange them into ideal conversational pods.
I handed out lots of Appleseed cards, but usually with a sheepish well-heh-heh-this-is-my-day-job, and the scribbled addition of "jmac.org" onto it. It's time for me to design a personal card again, something I can use when I am not introducing myself primarily as a software expert, or Volity's president. My last design, pictured here, is nine years old, drawn while I was still living in Maine. While I still have a bunch left, it's been a while since I've carried any around. It tries to bespeak creativity and cleverness while being vague and jokey about it, which describes my 2000 self to a tee. I'd like to think I've earned a little more definition since then, and need a card that suggests it.
All attendees were asked to identify themselves with three info-tags. I chose Perl, Consulting, and DIY Television. I ended up leaning most heavily on the latter, unsurprisingly, as TV production's what currently on the upswing in my personal obsessionery. And lo, serendipity smiled upon me: I found myself talking to people who work with NPR and WGBH (Boston's PBS affiliate), just a day after deciding that public broadcasting represents a good first place to start my little research project into up-marketing The Gameshelf. Sent out a passel of followup email this morning, and have high hopes that it will lead to some interesting conversations.
Props to
dariusk for helping these introductions along; a natural facilitator, he was a force of nature Saturday morning, all but bodily dragging people around the room in order to arrange them into ideal conversational pods.I handed out lots of Appleseed cards, but usually with a sheepish well-heh-heh-this-is-my-day-job, and the scribbled addition of "jmac.org" onto it. It's time for me to design a personal card again, something I can use when I am not introducing myself primarily as a software expert, or Volity's president. My last design, pictured here, is nine years old, drawn while I was still living in Maine. While I still have a bunch left, it's been a while since I've carried any around. It tries to bespeak creativity and cleverness while being vague and jokey about it, which describes my 2000 self to a tee. I'd like to think I've earned a little more definition since then, and need a card that suggests it.