Yep.

See you there ;)

Wow. What a great event. Gregg, Jason, and everyone else (update: larry!) who put in the time and effort to pull this thing off -- massive props.

Taste was packed. Not just packed, but standing room only packed, but in a not all that uncomfortable way. The presentations were of great quality and entertaining. There is a massive amount of talent around here, and it's a true joy to see everyone come out of the woodwork for something like this. Can't wait for the next one.

I gave a brief presentation on coworking, or as Chris Scott suggested, "cow orking", which I used for the title (and it still makes me giggle -- thanks chris!) It was sort of a local-centric warm up for Friday's blogOrlando local session track. I tried to show the co-working video with Brad/Chris/Tara talking it up, but couldn't get sound working (thats what I get for trying to be fancy). For those interested, here's a link to a Florida Creatives post with the embed of the video. Also, here is the direct link to the Coworking-Orlando google group.

Suggestions for future barcamps:

• Probably going to need a bigger venue ;) More space for side chats would be nice. Side room worked well, but there were a lot of us.
• More interactive presentations, less talk-at-you presentations. It's barcamp. Joke around, interact, ask questions of the speakers and from the audience. Heckle. If I had any complaint, it'd probably be that. I can only take so much powerpoint.
  
• Might want to break up the lightning talks/full on presentations and intermix them. Change the pace around to keep people active.

Overall though, a very successful first barcamp.

But wait, there's more! The week is not done yet.

Registration ends Monday at 10pm for blogOrlando. A bunch of great speakers from all over the country are coming here this week for an unconference Friday at Rollins College. It'll be a great time. I'll be leading a session on the local scene. Things I plan on discussing -- likemind, Florida Creatives, coworking, user groups, barcamp, local tech startups, community building/expanding, general Orlando/Central Florida/Middle Florida discussion. My buddy Alex Hillman will by flying down, which gives us a great opportunity to ask coworking related questions. I'd love it if you could join us :)

12:30pm out at Taste. Bring a couple cans of food for donation :)

Everyone's favorite monthly Monday happy hour is tonight over at Crooked Bayou in downtown Orlando. You can expect a handful of us creative types drinking some beer and eating some tater tots.

6pm-ish until whenever people peace out.

Our monthly coffee meetup is tomorrow morning at 8am. This time, instead of Panera, we're meeting at a new shop near Magnolia and Robinson, next door to Kinko's, called B&S Daily Market. Great little place, cool owner, and free wifi. Here's a map There's all sorts of cheap metered parking in the area, more so than what's available over by Panera. Shouldn't cause as many parking tickets ;)

Our monthly Likemind meet up is this Friday,July 20th, at 8am over at the Downtown Panera. :)

Typically, us work-from-home folks stick around afterwards for an informal "co-working" type scenerio. If you're up for it, plan on hanging out until early afternoon. It's a great location with decent food, free internet and fun company!