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It's Sunday morning. Reboot is over. It was a damn good conference. For a geekfest, a surprising number of sessions were on cultural topics. And the presence of academics was stronger than I'm used to in US tech conferences. Yet it all felt quite integrated. For example, Jyri Engestrom's session on object-centered social networks used insights from sociology to help software designers create apps that work. I hope US tech conferences take a look at Reboot's program to get ideas about how to broaden both their appeal and their significance. The conference was well-run, informal, over-packed with sessions, in English, presumptively in favor of open source, and in Copenhagen. What's not to like? Ok, one thing not to like was the meagre presence of female presenters, including zero keynoters. Yet, fwiw, the atmosphere felt less testosteronic than at the typical US geekorama. I heard less techno one-upmanship, saw less swagger. On the other hand, maybe I'm just not as good at decoding European testicular displays. [Technorati tag: reboot7] Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 12, 2005 02:51 AM
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I don't know, how the typical US geekorama feels, but from my point of view, this was more relaxed and friendly than testosteronic. :)
Posted by: Nicole Simon | June 14, 2005 08:05 PM