<p>This is my side of the story about the <a href="http://fct.enses.org/barcamp/app/">BarCampFCT</a> event.</p> <p>First of all, congratulations to the organization for selecting a great place to make the Barcamp. I never went to the <a href="http://www.fct.unl.pt/">FCT <span class="caps">UNL</span></a> before, but I loved the peace, the view and the weather. However, next time try not to do a Barcamp on a amphitheater.. it kills networking!</p> <p>The day began with a slow start&#8230; The poor guy talking about <a href="http://firehol.sourceforge.net/">FireHOL</a> had the duty of waking people and do the kick off. Next talk about technique presentations by João Rico started well, but quickly became boring. I had to get out of the room and search for some coffee&#8230;</p> <p>This was actually a good idea, because at the coffee break room, it was happening a lot of networking! Kudos for the cookies and the coffee, they were great! This happens to be the first time to know people and mingle around.</p> <p>Next it was the lunch&#8230; the lunch was <strong>perfect</strong>. <strong>Perfect</strong>. <strong>Perfect</strong>. Congratulations for this!</p> <p><a href="http://wizi.com/">Wizi</a> arrived late, and managed twice to almost kill the barcamp. On their first talk, they asked for 5 minutes, and delivered some 20+ boring talk&#8230; Can&#8217;t help it&#8230;</p> <p>But then there was <a href="http://artofsystems.blogspot.com/2007/01/halfbakedcom-entrepreneurial-improv.html">halfbaked</a>! Lot&#8217;s of great ideas about creating a new company, and lots of laughing too. Great time! <a href="http://www.tarpipe.com">TarPipe&#8217;s</a> didn&#8217;t disappoint, although I was expecting a more practical talk about the service (/platform/product).</p> <p>After more coffee and cookies, it was time to <span class="caps">IGNITE</span>! First I have to say that ignite sessions should have been done earlier, and the organization should be more fair and respect the speakers. Some got 10 or 15 minutes, some got 5 with auto rotating slides (killing the presentation), and then Wizi destroyed all the ignite spirit.</p> <p>I managed to get 5 minutes auto-rotating slides and talked about &#8220;Debian Sucks&#8221; (it doesn&#8217;t, really!) and the OpenSSL fiasco.</p> <p>Overall it was a great day, the organization deserve a great applause! I&#8217;ve got some good conversations, new ideas, met new people, and learned how a company (Wizi) can easily generate some bad buzz at an event.</p> 106 barcampfct-my-side-of-the-story 2008-05-26T01:13:00-07:00