Taking a break

When I signed in to Barcamp this morning, I decided to earn some karma points (since I haven't actually been helping with the planning or financing or anything) and sign up to volunteer. So, now I'm manning the greeting table from 1 - 2 pm. Of course, my metal-clad laptop can't get a wireless signal out in Microsoft's lobby, so this is giving me a break from the web to summarize my experience so far.

I guess it is a little bit what I expected, in that the discussions are really hard to blog about. I think I was expecting to be really "blown away" buy a bunch of smart people talking about really smart things. And granted, I haven't been here too long (yet), but so far it has been just a bunch of nice, smart people talking about things. Which is cool.

In the opening intro, the thing that really struck me was when Tantek said "you get out Barcamp of what you put into it". So, as long as I stay social and engaged, I am sure that I'm going to get something great out of this experience.

-Andy.

Technorati Tags: Barcamp