Though I had another commitment so left a bit early, I attended 60% of today’s Barcamp:Minnebar. Our fearless facilitators are shown at left: Ben Edwards, Dan Grigsby and Luke Francl locally here in Minnesota. This unconference drew >350 signups and I don’t know how many people ended up attending…but it was more than I’ve ever seen at a Minnesota geekfest.
Thankfully there were great sponsors including Dow Jones Online, SplitRock Partners, Electric Pulp, IconNicholson and New Counsel, with reasonably speedy Wifi provided by ipHouse. It made this a seamless event with all needs met and, with our fearless facilitators Luke, Dan and Ben scrambling to ensure it ran smoothly, I was stunned it flowed as well as it did.
The event kicked off with William Gurstelle who I originally saw on TechTV’s The Screen Savers with his backyard potato gun project. Here he is showing it off:
Read on to see a brief snippet video of the opening introduction by our fearless facilitators and a few more pictures…
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