So, Barcamp Brighton 3: absolutely fantastic. I'll scratch down a few thoughts before they evaporate:

• Really annoyed I missed Paul Silver talk on social networks and death: he brought it up at Tuttle last week and it sounded really great;
• Saw 2 talks on Selenium: I am going to be force-feeding this to our QAs until they burst;
• The last afternoon was appropriate New Age, given that we were in Brighton. Sunday closed for me with a yoga session with Jenny, meditation and GTD with Michael Rose, then a retrospective on the whole of Barcamp ably facilitated by Joh;
• The highlight was Rebecca talking on typography and design, which seemed to be the best-attended of the whole event (necessitating a mid-point shift in venue) and generated some really good debate afterwards. No Tantek, there is no repository of mobile typography. Yes Tantek, mobile fragmentation really *is* that bad.
• I also really enjoyed James' skit on Derrida and XKCD (so much that I forgot my promise of a good kicking if he ever mentioned Big D again), and the session which combined Thai OCR, DNA sequencing and minority African languages... but ended up being a database optimisation back-and-forth with the audience :)
• We decamped to a dark corner for the warts and all of Scrum - my talk on the last year at FP, which I may be repeating locally in the near future...

The only low point for me was the university food - but hey, out of everything that had to be organised and put together to bring an event of this scale to fruition, that's quite properly a long way down the list.

Already looking forward to the next one :)

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[Michael Rose]

Hi Tom

I'm looking forward to the next one too... it was a great w/end.

I've put some notes, mindmap, and links up on http://conscio.us.com/

You've heard it all before but I thought I'd share the podcast links which are excellent.

Wasn't Tantek the guy doing the climbing?

[Paul Silver]

Hullo,

Sorry you missed my talk, I moved to a start of day slot as there was only one talk booked when everything was near starting. Sort of thing you should do as a helper to kick start things.

Anyhoo, I've written up everything and stuck it in to a new blog on my site, my name should link to it. There are a few other scraps to write about thinking about long term issues with sites, but I haven't sorted those out yet.

Cheers

Paul