Tuesday, October 23, 2007
ETel 2008, Uncancelled
Will the longest lasting contribution of Tim O'Reilly's conferences to the tech community be the spinoffs the organization refused to host?
First there's Bar Camp, a series of seat-of-the-pants conferences that sprang on the scene when some people got irritated that they were not invited to FOO Camp. Foo stands for Friends of O'Reilly, and it's a one-way deal; *he* has to like *you*. There are FOURTEEN Bar Camps in North America between now and the end of November, plus one in Brazil, two in France, one in Germany, one in Italy, one in the UK, one in NZ, two in India and one in China.
Now Lee Dryburgh is working to single-handedly revive ETel, which O'Reilly summarily cancelled a few weeks ago. [UPDATE: Lee objects to "single handed". He prefers, "Working with the former ETel community. He says "There are so many folks helping behind the scenes and I do not want it to be a "lee conf" LOL.] He's calling it EComm 2008 [also see Lee's EComm Facebook page]. Will it work? At some level it has to . . . the community around ETel is way enthusiastic. If Lee pulls this off, I'll probably go.
Disclosure: I've approached the O'Reilly organization twice about partnering on conferences, but it seems I'm "bar" . . .
First there's Bar Camp, a series of seat-of-the-pants conferences that sprang on the scene when some people got irritated that they were not invited to FOO Camp. Foo stands for Friends of O'Reilly, and it's a one-way deal; *he* has to like *you*. There are FOURTEEN Bar Camps in North America between now and the end of November, plus one in Brazil, two in France, one in Germany, one in Italy, one in the UK, one in NZ, two in India and one in China.
Now Lee Dryburgh is working to single-handedly revive ETel, which O'Reilly summarily cancelled a few weeks ago. [UPDATE: Lee objects to "single handed". He prefers, "Working with the former ETel community. He says "There are so many folks helping behind the scenes and I do not want it to be a "lee conf" LOL.] He's calling it EComm 2008 [also see Lee's EComm Facebook page]. Will it work? At some level it has to . . . the community around ETel is way enthusiastic. If Lee pulls this off, I'll probably go.
Disclosure: I've approached the O'Reilly organization twice about partnering on conferences, but it seems I'm "bar" . . .
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