Nice evening at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) meeting two key people...
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After some late afternoon appointments, I dropped by the O'Reilly Open Source conference being held here in Portland Oregon. They have a Wednesday night reception that's free, and you can wander the exhibit hall. The main reason I go is to meet up with my publishing contacts at O'Reilly and Apress. Marsee from O'Reilly wasn't able to make it this year, but Julie Miller from Apress was there. As usual, I had a great time talking with her and commenting about the (at least!) 10 to 1 ratio of men to women at this event... *really geeky* men...
But a big surprise was getting the chance to finally meet Kathy Sierra (of Head First fame) in person. We've emailed each other a number of times, but we've never been able to meet up. I knew she was going to be speaking and attending Monday and Tuesday, but I really didn't expect her to be there this evening. Much to my astonishment, I saw a short blonde lady in the lobby, talking to a couple of other women about horses, standing next to someone who looked like Bert Bates. I was able to read her name tag, confirm it *was* her, and I just stood off to the side of the small group until there was a break. She looked over, read the name tag, and said "TOM!" :) They were off to the airport to catch their flight home, but it was a nice 15 minutes of chatting. Rather cool when a virtual friend finally is able to bridge the gap to "f2f"...
And after a long day of work, networking, errands and appointments, and taking the other car in for service, I'm all tuckered out... Off to bed...
After some late afternoon appointments, I dropped by the O'Reilly Open Source conference being held here in Portland Oregon. They have a Wednesday night reception that's free, and you can wander the exhibit hall. The main reason I go is to meet up with my publishing contacts at O'Reilly and Apress. Marsee from O'Reilly wasn't able to make it this year, but Julie Miller from Apress was there. As usual, I had a great time talking with her and commenting about the (at least!) 10 to 1 ratio of men to women at this event... *really geeky* men...
But a big surprise was getting the chance to finally meet Kathy Sierra (of Head First fame) in person. We've emailed each other a number of times, but we've never been able to meet up. I knew she was going to be speaking and attending Monday and Tuesday, but I really didn't expect her to be there this evening. Much to my astonishment, I saw a short blonde lady in the lobby, talking to a couple of other women about horses, standing next to someone who looked like Bert Bates. I was able to read her name tag, confirm it *was* her, and I just stood off to the side of the small group until there was a break. She looked over, read the name tag, and said "TOM!" :) They were off to the airport to catch their flight home, but it was a nice 15 minutes of chatting. Rather cool when a virtual friend finally is able to bridge the gap to "f2f"...
And after a long day of work, networking, errands and appointments, and taking the other car in for service, I'm all tuckered out... Off to bed...
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