Last week was a quite busy week in London. Many events were planned around the hype that is FOWA (Future of Web Apps conference). I met quite alot of people at BarCampLondon2 that was 2 days before FOWA and stayed in contact with some of the people that went to FOWA afterwords. What I managed to understand about the FOWA experience is that I am happy that I didn’t pay 200 pounds to go there.
The problems where numerous. First of all the organisation was rubish for a payed event. According to Jeremy Keith there was no free WiFi and no free beverages. The atmosphere was therefore kindof below standard which led to many of the FOWA people to be found at other events in the evenings. This is how I met Andre Ribeirinho from Portugal who escaped to the Girl Geel Dinner at Wednesday.
I stayed tuned to all the interesting talks at FOWA with the help of Colin Schlueter and the use of Twitter. I was amazed that most of the interesting speeches where also given at BarCampLondon2 (for example Simon Willison’s OpenID speech), and all the others were regarded as salesmen-talk. I wonder what Dan thought of the event as he was actually not paying but working.
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