T3DD06 are over
Thomas Hempel wrote it down on www.typo3-unleashed.net: The T3DD06 are finished. I'd like to tell you the story of this event - from the beginning on. Later I will also provide some pictures I shot and may be some links.
Started on Thursday with the CoreDev-Meeting in the afternoon, the event finished today at around 14:00 officially, and at 16:00 inofficially. It was my second TYPO3 event ever - I was at no snowboard tour yet, just on the TYCON3 last September in Karlsruhe. And for me, this was the first event in this size that I was helping to organize. The first time I heard about the idea of having event just for the developers of TYPO3 was in the journal of the General Assembly of the TYPO3 Association in March (?) of 2006.
From the first moment on, I loved this idea. After finding out that Juergen Egeling is the right person to talk about, we started planning. Best thanks at this place to my boss! Without his "Go!" it wouldn't have been possible to have this event at my workplace, the Berufsbildungszentrum Amt und Limmattal in Dietikon.
The planning for the event started some months ago with the first and single meeting with Juergen in Bad Säckingen on the Swiss-/German border. After deciding who is in charge of which tasks, we both got back to work and started organizing the whole event. Of course we where communicating via email all the time.
Then we opened the registration: We had 90 spots to sell. Within less than ten days, we where fully booked for the first time. As some persons registered but didn't pay, we could reopen the registration process and sold almost all of the open spots. At the beginning of the conference, 89 persons where registered of which 85 really showed up in the end. That's really great!
Right from the start, the canteen (which was planned just as a "communcation-food-and-chillout-zone") was changed to a hackcenter. As we noticed during the event, DHCP via our WLAN wasn't working properly on the 2nd floor where all the sessions where held. But down in the canteen, WLAN was working great - and you can be sure, it got used really really hard :-)
During the whole event I could just attend to one single session: The PGP-Keysigning session on Saturday that Karsten Dabekalns organized. As there where not that many interrested persons, we just signed a small amount of keys. I'm really looking forward to signing more keys on the next TYPO3 event. If you're interrested: Please bring your key fingerprint to the next event and hopefully we meet and sign our keys.
Finally arrived on the Goodbye session this afternoon, I had the chance to talk to all attendees and I opened it with the words: "I'm happy! Nothing got broken during the event!". The answer from someone was "... until now". But I'm still lucky!
Thank's to all attendees for beeing there, for having many many good talks, getting known to new persons and just having a good time! Some special thanks go to all the helping hands that sometimes also worked in the background! You've done a great job!
See you on the next T3 Event! Maybe the next T3DD will happen at the same location, ...
- mario
