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I have been thinking a lot about how to blog about this, without being a total asshole.
The event was a Saturday and the first snow had just arrived. It was really cold and I had to bike across Copenhagen in order to get to the venue.
I got there a bit late because of family coordination prior to leaving, but the schedule seemed a bit loose, so I was not worried about arriving a bit late.
When I got there everybody was heading out.
I greeted a few people, got my name tag and spotted the name tag of somebody I wanted to meet. So the person had not arrived yet.
I joined one of the teams and we headed out on a treasure hunt.
I really, really tried to keep and open mind, but running around on snowy and icy sidewalks, colliding with Saturday shopping and a treasure hunt, which was seriously buggy (error prone map and persons not being where they where supposed to be) I got a bit fed up. So when we finally got back I heard the welcome words and decided to go home, sorry I had wasted 1 and half our, which I could have spent with my kids on some play ground instead.
The guys on my team where really nice, but I think the concept of a BarCamp with the theme of just geek, is perhaps a but too loose for me. I have a long story of attending all sort of Perl and Open Source events and conferences. Since we organized YAPC::Europe 2008 I have decided to get some impressions for other sorts of events.
So my conclusion is that the BarCamp was not really for me, I am sure the attendees staying around had a marvelous time. Now I am on the look out for other local events to attend, the local Ruby community seem to be quite active perhaps I should pay them a visit to see what they do and what their format is.
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Thank you for your feedback, there no such thing as bad feedback, and it's perfectly ok to be an asshole, we need to hear everything, and there is some amount of self-praise among the organisers that isn't objective.
If you visit http://barcamp.dk, it's possible that you might change your mind about not attending again, I think there was quite a lot of interesting things for everyone.
I agree that the game was somewhat (understatement) buggy, that it was too long, that the weather was bad, that my agents failed me etc. etc.
I've done quite a lot of reflection about the game, and I've blogged about it in great lengths at http://kimbach.org, and I'll include your comments in part II of my blogpost, where I'll talk about how the game unfolded etc. This is something we stack up to experience, and we're (me at least ;-)) is not going to repeat it.
The fact that we've received so little feedback, at least that's what I think, might mean that you're not alone in your critism.
Hope to see sometime in the future, and thanks for the feedback, we need that to improve. BarCamp is about sharing, and we don't want to scare ANYONE away.
BTW. There are other communities around that might be of you interest. I'd recommend CopenhagenCocoa.com, PHP MeetUp and DrupalDanmark, where you can meet me again, and I promiss that I'm not sending you on a secret mission in those communities ;-)