First BarCamp Lille was lovely

Just came back from the first BarCamp in Lille and I had a great time.
You could tell it was a French organisation, as there were abundant amounts of food… and what kind of!
It started off with a buffet with different kind of cookies, fresh strawberries and cherries.
Several types of drinks were made available and later on they started coming around with warm pancakes with a dressing of your choice.
At the end of the day threre was a free ice cream for all attendees.
And I was told I missed the cake…
Who doesn’t love the French? ;-)

As far as the talks are concerned, I was a bit disappointed to find a large focus being put on Enterprise, Management, Marketing and other things you can prepend to 2.0.
For the tech-savvy, there wasn’t all that much to be learnt.
I guess this had to do with the organisation team (and the location) being from the ESC Lille.
It was interesting nevertheless.

Again, Raphaël and I gave a presentation about MyOwnDB and again, we got some nice reactions.
Getting pretty nervous by the way for our GPL release in a couple of weeks!

It was nice to see how many Belgians made their way to Lille (which is so close to Belgium that the train station has more Dutch signs than the train station in Leuven has French sings).
I arrived together with Patrick and met new, interesting people like Michaël Uyttersprot and Vincent Battaglia.

Tomorrow, I’ll be present at Open Source Expo 08 in Karlsruhe.
Looking forward to it!