ORA Emerging Technology Conference

I just registered for the 2004 ORA Emerging Technology Conference. This will be my third time going, but I almost gave it a miss this year because they moved the location down to San Diego. But then they offered all FOO Camp almuni a special rate which made it more attractive.

The 2002 conference held in Silicon Valley was just fantastic, a massive headrush of smart people and their wild brilliant ideas. The 2003 con was also great, but less so. I was a bit hesitant to make the financial and scheduling commitment to go to this one because the change of location in 2004 could adversely affect attendance, and a lot of the value of the conference is in the other attendees. Extending an offer to the FOO Camp alumni (which was a conference -entirely- about the other attendees) seems like a smart way to get the right people down to San Diego.

Note, I was probably the least interesting person at FOO Camp, so I don't really count myself amongst the valuable attendees. I'm just a leech :)

Comments

[sean]

Sweet! I'll be there too, this year as a student volunteer... I've evolved from �berleech to demileech.

[Boris]

I will see you there! I am also planning, since I'll be in California for the first time, to rent a car and drive up to L.A. and San Francisco after the conf. Just bum around, you know. ;)

[Geodog]

I'm going to be there too - but that's not why I am writing. Just wanted to let you know that for some reason your globe applet crashed my Firebird 0.7 on Windows. Reproducible, too - Twice when I went to http://akuaku.org/ instant hang, then crash. I don't know if this is due to some peculiarity of my setup or not, but thought you would want to know.

Thanks,
Tim

P.S. I am staying at the same hostel - I got to your page by clicking the link on the room sharing page.