Heads up that the good people at Revival Bar on College are offering comp admission to the club to people in town for mesh, BarCamp or DrupalCamp. So tell ’em mesh sent ya and party on, dood.
We spent the afternoon at MaRs sweating details for mesh. Technical stuff, dealing with gear a.k.a. swag (oh yes, there will be gear), badges, "flow" and so forth. Very much in making-the-sausage mode. Things are coming together swimmingly, I am happy to say. We are feeling sort-of ready for Monday. Sort-of 🙂
BTW, Mathew makes a lousy stand-in for Om. 🙂
I’m now at BarCamp TDot, of which mesh, myself, Rob and Mike are sponsors. There are still a lot of people here in a big empty warehouse room near Dufferin and King, but there were apparently 130 or so here at it’s peak. Great to see so much networking and collaboration in the Toronto tech world happening.
That’s it, that’s all. More later.
UPDATE: Well, what can I say? Your support (and – frankly – some dissent) has all been tremendous. The result? As of mid-afternoon today, mesh was Sold Out. Now all that’s left is mesh itself 😉
We are well into final prep, and thanks to whatever Almighty Being you pray to, we have some great GREAT suppliers helping us sweat the details (MCC Event Management, Right Sleeve Marketing, MaRS Collaboration Centre to name but a few) Them details are myriad, and they are all doing simply stunning work.
Also not to be forgotten are our Sponsors (that’s them over –> there) who came in right off the bat support our effort to get this off the ground. In addition to that financial support, many of them have been assisting in a real hands-on way all along, too (gwp with the logo and name, Edelman with yeo-person’s support with PR, Bell early on in attempting to clear some connectivity roadblocks, again to name a few). Thanks to all.
And then, there’s the mesh Class of 2006. I might get knocked down, but I would challenge anyone to show me a stronger, more credible assemblage of people to talk about What’s Next Online anywhere in North America then those assembled on our speaker’s roster.
Down the road? It is our sincere desire to see more and more local faces, reflecting an entire myriad of new possibilities and great futures being created, right here.
So that’s it for my sermon 😉
Myself and my fellow mesh-ies are truly fired up about next week. Tired, but fired. Be sure to say hello, won’t you?