If I wasn't working on other stuff, I might be interested... maybe I'll take a peek at what they have tomorrow.
8:04:02 PM    

The Starkiller one was really really good - translating the dynamic nature of Python into the static-ness of C++ ('cause static, compile-time decisions are faster than runtime decisions) - the project seemed very promising, the creator was very excited about his work - so it turned into one of the fastest paced talks so far at the conference.

The Data Extraction and Analysis talk was also interesting - this Python newbie built something in 3 months that was amazingly complex (well, to me - any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic), in a language (and using a framework) that she had just started using.

Tomorrow looks like a full day: Zope sessions in morning, 2 hour long sessions in the afternoon, and sessions right up until "close". (Today for me had 1 or 2 dead spots where I didn't have any particular talk I wanted to go to - not so tomorrow.)

While I'm at a conference I like to poke at personal projects. Today I got the documentation, infrastructure, and general organization of files working (or at least planned out), so I feel I made good progress on that as well.

So very profitable day. No Internet for the rest of the night, so don't expect any more posts...

(and yay, fighting Radio to get this to post. w00t. (Maybe this will work)
5:12:35 PM    

So far participating in this group-notetaking has been a great experience - instead of everybody taking their own notes (like has happened at MacHack the 2 years I've been there).
12:50:22 PM    

• About the same size, maybe a bit larger. I'm guessing 200-300 people here, although I haven't looked at the offical numbers at all
• A fair number of Macs, but mostly Win2K/XP machines
• Stranger humor
• Working (read: normal people) hours
• GWU conference center is fairly nice
• Note to self: bring camera
• Organized group notetaking (thank you SubEthaEdit)
• Nice (printed, laminated) schedule
• A dozen contributers to notes (via SubEthaEdit) is interesting (side points/questions, references, many-hands-make-light-work)

More impressions throughout the day
8:59:09 AM