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3 Rules of Gnomedex 8.0

Started by micah · 10 months ago

Yesterday morning, I got home from Gnomedex 8.0 and after 24 hours, I have finally been able to distill the conference. It was my first time attending Gnomedex, but not the first time hearing about it.
In 2000, I worked at a startup in San Francisco Bay Area. One of the developers suggeste ... Continue reading »

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Stu Andrews
10 months ago

Micah,

Thanks for your thoughts. Good to hear about Gnomedex and that people are making it _real_. Sounds like it's a great community that gets together there.

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Mike Koss
10 months ago

It was a great conference. I'll disagree that there were no hallway conversations, though. I saw lots of networking in the hallways - I skipped out on a couple of sessions because I was finding it even more interesting to meet and talk with some of the other attendees. Great meeting you over dinner, BTW.

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micah
10 months ago

I guess my point was that the sessions seemed to hold everyone's
attention more so than other conferences. I agree there was a lot of
networking going on, but it seemed to be less important during Gnomedex.

Dinner was great! Looking forward to doing it again.

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Beth Kanter
10 months ago

enjoyed meeting you at gnomedex and hearing your geography story

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micah
10 months ago

It was great meeting you as well. Its always great to see someone put
their money where their mouth is. You are quite an inspiration to many
people.

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