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August 23, 2004
EuroFoo summary
After my first day back at work I feel I am now able to give a short summary of EuroFoo. In all it was a great experience listening to all the bright people talk about the interesting stuff they do. It certainly started some neurons firing in my brain thinking about what it is I want to "get into" in the future. Unfortunately the typical problem with conferences (or similar venues) is that you can only be in one place at a time - and so miss a good portion of the sessions. Another problem is actually getting to talk to all the interesting people there. You often see someone you want to speak to while speaking to someone else. When you've finished your chat the other person has gone or is engaged in some other deep discussion. Anyway I got to talk to quite a few people I've only emailed before - so I can put a face to an email address now :-).
Some improvements I would suggest for the next EuroFoo are: More sessions that are set up as "discussions/brainstorming", more "geeky sessions", sessions in the evenings too and a perhaps slightly longer venue. The setting at the University of Twente was ideal (for me especially - only 2 hours away).
It was a weekend well spent!
Posted by Matthew at August 23, 2004 07:13 PM