Note to self: I need a Nikon SLR.
I just got back from BarcampMilwaukee3, the technology and creativity “un-conference”. I wasn’t prepared for the creativity side of it, but I found this to be more refreshing than the discussion about web technologies I had throughout the two days.
It seems interesting to me the sheer number of photographers in the crowd. I would put this number at one out of five participants either had a camera at the conference or were active flickr users for their blogs. The photowalk was one of the most popular sessions. Maybe this is a release for the sometimes mundane tasks of writing code. But the creative side is important for programming, so maybe this is another means to foster that creativity.
We are definitely a diverse group, with some people being social media manics, publishing blogs, photos, video and audio, all of which fit into the tech world nowadays… :)
I had never met a group of people who defined their existence through Flickr as much as this group. It’s a bizarre notion to me, but one that I’ll happily accept.