Carlos Domingo - Un poco de todo

So this morning Mindcamp 2.0 finished, I was not there as I only attend half of the day yesterday, I had things to do plus I am not really into sleeping there surrounded by geeks. The hours that I spent there, I had a lot of fun. Lots of cool and creative people. It look a lot more crowded (the space was narrower so it could just be my impression) and certainly more organized with people helping with Mindcamp2.0 t-shirts, etc.

It was already fun from the beginning when everyone introduced each other (last year I actually got there late since Jim and I got lost using Google Maps, no problem getting to the new place this year) showing a lot of creativity and humor. Here is a summary of some of the most amusing ones, specially from the Microsoft crowd (Andru joked about how unfortunate was that there were not enough
Microsoft people, probably 20~30% of the people there were from Microsoft with lots of Amazon people as well):

• One guy that introduced himself as "working on open source projects at Microsoft" (as you can imagine, there were quote a few laughs when he said that but Scoble mentioned that the product they were working on was pretty cool and that he uses it but I did not get what was the product about),
• Another guy said he worked on "Windows reliability" that also trigger some laughing
• A guy worked on Windows clustering to "help programs stay running through blue screens"
• One guy introduced himself as someone working for a company that just lost $40BB this week, many people did not get the joke, including me, perhaps because it was misleading, Microsoft has not lost that money, they are actually an extremely profitable company, Microsoft shareholders have lost the money though as their market cap dropped
• A Boeing guy (not Microsoft but worth to mention) introduced himself as someone interested in mass transportation (so certainly working at the right company)

I attended only three sessions as I was not there for too long and I wondered around and talked to people but in any case, it was worth spending some time there. I got some pictures in Flickr here.

Keep the good job Andru and look forward to Mindcamp 3.0!!
CD

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