It was my pleasure and privilege to attend Codebits in 2009. As Roland Bouman says, its talk choice method is based on public voting, and therefore everyone cha have contribute to the schedule.
But that is not the main reason for attending this extraordinary event. It is not just a conference. It's an innovation fest. For 1 and 1/2 days, it's a conference, where the speakers are encouraged to bring to their audience the most innovative and inspiring talks. In the afternoon of the second day, the event becomes a competition, where the teams that have registered will have 24 hours to bring a project to completion, and they have to start and finish within the allotted time.
The project can be anything, and I have seen quite a lot of exciting stuff rolling live in the huge pavilion:
I could hardly ignore robotics, as these little mechanical smurfs were running all over the place and you would have to be careful not to squash them when you walked.
There was plenty of occasions for planning of great projects, together with attempts at improving social relations, and mixing up with big brother.
There were projects based on 3D printing, and less broad projects like all-seasons keyboards.
A very popular session, followed by practical workshops was lock picking. I attended one of them, learned how to pick simple and less simple locks, and I brought home some lockpicking tools.
On a more technical level, I was there with Lenz Grimmer and Kai Seidler, we spoke about MySQL and other cool things, and we had lots of fun for three days.
Besides the teams hacking away at their projects, there were several teams showcasing technology that had been developed by winners of the previous years, such as 3D television and intelligent phone networks.
In short, This was an inspiring event, which I can warmly recommend.
Monday, August 15, 2011
CodeBits - An event of competitive innovation
It was my pleasure and privilege to attend Codebits in 2009. As Roland Bouman says, its talk choice method is based on public voting, and therefore everyone cha have contribute to the schedule.
But that is not the main reason for attending this extraordinary event. It is not just a conference. It's an innovation fest. For 1 and 1/2 days, it's a conference, where the speakers are encouraged to bring to their audience the most innovative and inspiring talks. In the afternoon of the second day, the event becomes a competition, where the teams that have registered will have 24 hours to bring a project to completion, and they have to start and finish within the allotted time.
The project can be anything, and I have seen quite a lot of exciting stuff rolling live in the huge pavilion:
I could hardly ignore robotics, as these little mechanical smurfs were running all over the place and you would have to be careful not to squash them when you walked.
There was plenty of occasions for planning of great projects, together with attempts at improving social relations, and mixing up with big brother.
There were projects based on 3D printing, and less broad projects like all-seasons keyboards.
A very popular session, followed by practical workshops was lock picking. I attended one of them, learned how to pick simple and less simple locks, and I brought home some lockpicking tools.
On a more technical level, I was there with Lenz Grimmer and Kai Seidler, we spoke about MySQL and other cool things, and we had lots of fun for three days.
Besides the teams hacking away at their projects, there were several teams showcasing technology that had been developed by winners of the previous years, such as 3D television and intelligent phone networks.
In short, This was an inspiring event, which I can warmly recommend.
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I wholeheartedly agree. CodeBits is an awesome event and I really enjoyed being there the last two years. Sadly it looks as if I won't be there this year, but I had a great time talking about Quadrocopters and MySQL 5.5 there last year!
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