11 August 2007

liveblogging from barcampdc

I saw the technorati page over justin's shoulder so I should probably contribute. The conference is cool, it's a little presentation-heavy rather than interactive, I guess that's just because it's hard to get people comfortable with other participants when there are 9 sessions in 8 hours.

I was thinking about how attendees at this sort of conference are into scripting, web 2.0, design, user experience, "lightweight", fun stuff. There isn't much community forming around enterprise, Java stuff anymore. The NoVA JUG has been trying to recover from near-death, as far as I can tell from the mailing list. Maybe dynamic, smart people just want to spend their free time on the fun stuff that's hard to get paid for.

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