.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

Me and A were lucky enough to get places at BarCamp Leeds on Saturday, which was rather scary, but really good all the same. We were worried we weren't geek enough, but A managed to camouflage any perceived non-geekness (A?! ha!) by having the same laptop as everyone else* and making intelligent comments from time to time.

[* As predicted, almost everyone had a Mac, and most people who didn't had a Vaio, except me. I may have had the biggest laptop in the room - and big is not good, geekwise - BUT I need a big one because it helps me to translate from BSL to English. And I hate Apple. So there!]

So anyway, we had a fab time, watching presentations on TV3 (net based TV with bells on), how to make a company grow via 2.0 marketing, and edocr. There was also meant to be a live joint presentation with the guys at BarCamp Ottowa, but it didn't work out, despite much effort on both sides. Oh well. Finally, we accidently found ourselves watching a really hardcore tech presentation on human-computer interraction (HCI for those in the know(!!)) given by a very enthusiastic fast talking man who managed to squeeze just about all of the remaining energy out of C and Jacks, who were terping like their lives depended on it. Round of applause to them - they did a fab job, even impressing the geeks, especially the one who admired Jacks' sign for algorithm. Wow.

Other good things included:
1) The fact that it was an 'unconference', and really informal.
2) Everyone was proper nice.
3) The food was great and very generous.
4) The organisation was also fantastic.
5) It was free. Did I mention that? It was all free. Including a free mug each.

And here are some bad webcam shots.

Better pictures (i.e. other people's) here. Big thanks to the BarCamp Leeds people!