Arrived @ CITCON
gommo June 28th, 2008
Arrived at CITCON on Friday night for the session scoping night. CITCON is run in an Open Spaces format which means there is no agenda, the responsibility of running a good conference is up to the attendees. The only rule is the ‘Rule of Two Feet’. If your not getting value out of a session, standup and go to another one.
There were a few familiar faces from CITCON 2007 in Sydney but by far the majority where new people from Melbourne. CITCON 2008 Melbourne was also the largest CITCON worldwide to date, beating out Sydney for the top honour. This is great news for Australia as its indicating there is a lot of interest for this type of development as well as demonstrating the amount of talent we have here.
After the topics for Saturday were proposed there was a social hour and then about 12 of us headed off for a local pub. It took us so long to find a decent one that didn’t have $30 cover charges that we lost 2 guys along the way 
I woke up a little worse for wear on Sat morning ready for the sessions.