I’m sitting on the train heading back to London from #libcampuk11 in Birmingham, writing this on my phone. Now, first off, I have to say thank you and well done to the organisers, I had a fantastic time and I am astounded at how smoothly it went!
I was a little skeptical about the whole unconference thing at first but it was great, I felt like I got far more out of the sessions than I have at a normal streamed conference because I had been involved both the selection process and then because the sessions were conversations and not one way info flows.
I didn’t take as many notes as I’d like as I was too involved in following the conversation but I feel like I remember far more than I would’ve with notes. Certainly the level of enthusiasm was infectious (as well possible the colds – the shivers I have now better be cake withdrawal!) and I really enjoyed hearing what people had to say!
I’m glad that a) people came and b) enjoyed mine and Mark’s session on open source in libraries! Thank you again to Mark for teaming up with me! I am always happy to talk about OSS in libraries so feel free to drop me a email/tweet/comment etc.
I’m not sure how cohesive this entry is as I am home now and suffering from a combination of hungover/cake withdrawal/possible libcampuk11 death flu, which means my head seems to have been filled with cotton wool but there we are. I shall endeavour to return to the subject when less fuzzy.
Thank you once again to the organisers and all the marvellous providers of caaaaaaake!
Hi, I’ve got some audio from your open source session. I haven’t listened to it yet to check for sound quality but just wanted to see if you wanted to listen to it before I post it to the wiki in terms of content?
Hi! Oh, I would like to, if that is okay. Will drop you an email to sort the hows etc.