TechYob

Barcampsydney is here to stay - an un-conference dedicated to exchanging ideas and knowledge around all things geekery.  Fantastic effort by Mick Liubinskas, Christy Dena, Jason Yip, Rich Buggy and Russ Weakley.  Stand out presentations for me were ex-Microsoft Joel Pobar’s discussion of google-style scale out programming models, which got me reading the MapReduce paper over breakfast this morning, and Marty and Mike’s boot-strapping-a-business presentation.  As ever, it was great to catch-up with Phil Morle and hear the interesting work he is doing with Yoick and P2P virtual worlds. Welcome also goes to Mike Perrow who has just moved to Oz to start with Google. 

The event was free, and I got a free t-shirt, so an acknowledgement to the sponsors: 

My only suggestion is that next year there actually be a bar to camp at.