Sunday March 12, 2006 Conference Contrast
Well, I reached Austin on Friday night but somewhere in transit I got very sick - I blame the prawn in the appetiser on the flight from Paris. Consequently, I spent all day Saturday in my hotel room, missing all the good stuff on the first day of SXSWi. I did get out at the end of the afternoon, despite being a bit fragile, and attended a pretty poor panel.
Things got better after that though. BarCamp Austin was in full swing and I went over to see what was what. The place was packed with interesting people all itching to share their interests. As is the way of the Unconference, I was spotted (by Raven Zachary of 451) and invited to join a panel on open source. I had the privilege of speaking alongside Doc Searls, along with William Hurley (the ringleader of the BarCamp) and others (Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress and Chris Messina of Flock fame).
The contrast between the two events was striking. SXSWi is impersonal, controlling, somewhat sterile by comparison with the energy of BarCamp. I can't help thinking that Unconference is the model more and more of us will adopt for the transfer of knowledge.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 12 2006, 09:04:45 AM PST )
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