Ignite Boston
Tonight I attended Ignite Boston. This was the first "the attendees make the conference" conferences I'd been to. From a single stage, a wide variety of short (5 minute) technology focused talks were given (full speaker list from the above link). The majority of speakers had their talks geared towards the format. Taking place at a bar was good for the social aspects, but the resulting background chatter overwhelmed some speakers that were not as adapt at speaking into the microphone.
From all the talks, I found these the most interesting:
- A wiki-like programming contest
- Ending Gerrymandering Through Automatic Redistricting
- http://www.booktour.com/
O’Reilly did a good job with the organization and thanks to Google for the free beer.