Session Didn’t Make the Cut? No Worries

Seems that the dust from suggest a session has settled and the winners are frantically preparing their sessions.

Maybe your session didn’t make the cut, but don’t be sad or disheartened.
There is another way to present your session topic at OpenWorld.
Sign up for the Unconference.
Justin announced today that signups for this year’s Unconference have officially opened. [...]

My First BarCamp

I spent portions of this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday attending my very first BarCamp, held here in Portland at CubeSpace.
The origins of BarCamp are interesting; back in 2005, O’Reilly held a user-generated conference called Foo Camp that was invite only. Lots of people wanted an invite (kind of like Web 2.0 Summit, ahem), but [...]