BarCamp Toronto Tech Week is happening right now. Yeah, I'm not the earliest out of the gate with the news, but I'm here, and you should too. There's still time to think of a session.
Last year's BarCamp San Francisco was a bit of a transformative experience for me. I had a great time, schmoozed with great people, and became more confident about some ideas I had tossed around in my head for a long time. One of them has since borne fruit, and I'll be talking about in an hour or two. My work on Quaintance has slowed to the occasional coding binge on plane trips, and I find that getting discussing my projects in a group spurs me to work on it more frequently.
It never occurred to me that I'd help to organize a BarCamp a year after my first one, but I did, and I'm astonished at the number of people who showed up and how smoothly it seems to be going. We (Will Pate, Bryce Johnson, Ryan Coleman, Mark Kuznicki and myself) threw this together in like three weeks, but in BarCamp terms, that's plenty of time to do what needs to get done, apparently.