Camping in the clouds #cloudcampsyd
Went along to Cloud Camp in Sydney tonight, hosted by the kind folks at Google in their extremely funky offices. Cloud Camp is yet another riff on the un-conference theme (inspired by BarCamps and Foo Camps).
What was good? The unconference sessions at the end were good. Lots of interesting ideas & discussions. Our industry needs more of this kind of dialogue. I also got a lot out of the lightning talks by Alan Noble (Google), Milinda Kotelawele (LongScale), and Dr. Anna Liu (UNSW). There was a lot of information there that could have done with (at least) another five minutes each.
What made me go meh? A couple of the lightning talks at the beginning made me sigh. A few of them turned out to be fairly routine vendor sales pitches that really fell flat. Also doing an event that is so dense with information, networking opportunities and geeky goodness on a school night was not helpful for those of us who have early meetings the following day.
Would I go again? Probably - especially if we can get to the unconference section of proceedings without wasting too much time on irrelevant stuff.
