Milliseconds of Genius!
Just a quickie - there are a couple videos I’ll be working on this week to get posted up to youtube. One of them is with cannibal and it’s about the defcamp challanges for this season, and the other is a video that was taken of my hacking reality presentation.
Stay tuned! :D
BCSD3 was flat out the biggest best BarCamp in San Diego ever.
I’d like to point out that I outgrew a subnet. That in of itself sort of makes me have to sit down. I heard word that we broke 200 attendees - we only had 150 badges and we ran out of them, and we went through 1.75 kegs of beer, and over the food budget by more than 500 dollars.
Holy shit, I’ll say that again for all the networking people out there: WE OUTGREW A SUBNET. Wow.
If we didn’t hit critical mass this time, then we’re certainly going to next time - but I’m fairly certain we hit critical mass this time around.
We had Chris Messina, one of the founders of BarCamp come visit as well! That was most excellent!
Defcamp went off AWESOME this time as well. The challenge boxes took a pretty fair amount of time, and so did the other challenges.
heres a quick rundown of the challenges:
1) 9 ‘trees’ of 2 challenges, each challenge being multi-staged. When contestants got to the end of a challenge tree they were given a letter, and when all the letters were combined they formed the word ‘izzard’. There were three dead ends.
2) Boxes - Just look at the pictures! They had magnetic ‘read’ switches in them so that we could ‘arm’ the boxes by removing a magnet, 37 nails (in a row :D) on top as ‘leads’, where 31 of them were not correct and 6 of them were. The contestants were supposed to take the aligator clip leads and connect them to the correct nails, and green lights would turn on, signaling them to cut the ‘breaker cable’ that was holding the box shut. Once inside, they had to pick a lock to remove the tray, then they were given a MiniPOV kit and a usb to serial converter.
3) Soldering - teams then were supposed to assemble a miniPOV kit and make it say something clever
It was glorious.
There was a twitter scavenger hunt put on by GirlGamer.com, a Wii Bowling contest and Boogah setup a four-square area and got a cherryball from the store across the street.
Best BarCamp Evar. Here are some pics!
This conference really reminded me of DefCon.
Reason being is that once noon rolled around, the twitters flying around were all about which parties to hit in what order that night. All the networking and all the real talk happened after the actual event, at the parties.
For example, Pete Casmore of mashable.com hired me to be his ‘personal’ photographer during the entire event. Nice little bonus: being able to add mashable.com to the Aten Syndicate list of clients!
The event overall was very enjoyable, except for the coming-home-with-the-plague part.
There was a very large Adobe/Flex presence, and most of the talks that I went to were almost flat out developer related. There were a few that I missed because too much awesome stuff was going on, but overall it was awesome. Here are some highlights!
SO much new stuff.
Startupsd.net - The place for all things startup-related
lightbending.net - IT LIVES! Finally! Anybody need a photographer?
atensyndicate.com - New look, New feel, same awesome guys.
barcampsd.org - New look, new feel, new contest, May 3rd and 4th
Defcamp - new, improved, you’re going to hate us. Bring a soldering iron, a multimeter, some whiskey, and a lockpick set.
I’ve gone freelance, under the atensyndicate name and I’ve landed my first contract. I’ll post more as more develops.
I’m heading up to the Web2.0 expo next week, so expect the usual writeup and pictures from that.
be excellent to eachother
– Bill and Ted
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