Barcamp Portland 3

This weekend is BarCamp Portland, where we get a whole bunch of people interested in technology, and a few people who aren’t. (I swing back and forth depending on how awake I am.)

However, I am still amazed by what happens when you get folks in a space to be able to talk about community, both in the technology sense and the physical sense. It’s a tremendous amount of work to put on, I’m not going to lie. The Legion of Tech and assorted Sponsors really pull together to put everyone in the same space, feed everyone, build the scheduling tools, and hundreds of other little things that no one ever talks about.

That being said, there are lots of tech events that happen in Portland, and it’s entirely possible that you could spend every single day, all year long, interacting with the same group of people who love to get together and talk about technologies. This is fun. But there are plenty of other neat things that happen here in Portland that we aren’t always aware of.

Stephanie El Haj and I put a session together this morning (notes are here): Fun in PDX (And I Don’t Mean Tech): A Thinly Disguised Intervention.

So don’t say we never gave you anything. There’s also plenty of other great stuff going on, I’m sitting in a session about encouraging women in technology and there are so many people here that are listening too. Today’s not even half over yet.