On the plane back north to Vangroovy - exhausted and brain filled with ideas and some enjoyable observations, here are a few:

Human 2.0 - This Dmitiri lad is the real deal. His themeing session was outstanding as he took the packed standing room only (really) crowd from "what is a theme" all the way through the basics and into crowd-suggested nuances (i.e. themeing per node or per view or per block etc.).

He's a keyboard shortcut wizard, has a great sense of humor, a natural public speaker (with just a wee-est quaver in his voice) and he knows this Drupal and php stuff solid and drives his Mac like a virtuoso. He doesn't post social media stuff anywhere and this was hist first real "meat space" interaction with his community.

This is a quick post to update customers, partners, collegues and friends of my upcoming travel schedule and the events that Bryght will be participating in over the next few months.

Gnomedex 7.0 - heading down to Seattle to see Chris and Ponzi and the rest of the uber-bloggypodvlogger digerati. Always one of my favorite events of the year. Seriously be ready to get your geek on.

Barcamp Vancouver - Vancouver's 2nd Barcamp. I'll be leading a PhotoCamp. 180+ people already registered. Hear me now, believe me later... don't miss out... this is a great grassroots technology and geek networking event.

Barcamp Beijing - the first ever Barcamp in Beijing. Scales and I are still pulling lots of details together but we have a date and a venue so the show *will* go on. :)

China Access 2008 - I will be presenting on Social Media and the Internet at this years China Access 2008 event for the creative services industries in Beijing.

From Van to L.A. to Toronto and Back Again...

Raincity's Robert Scales is heading down to Los Angeles for next week's E3 Conference on behalf of New Media BC and the Digital Media Association of Alberta. The conference spans over three days and Rob will be podcasting and blogging about all the next generation of video games, getting acquainted with all of the fun new toys, while mixin with the likes of Doom 3 lead designer Tim Willits and Killer 7 designer Gouichi Suda of grasshopper manufacture, as this year marks the largest group of speakers in the history of the conference.