barcamp hong kong 2007!!!!!!
had a fun afternoon yesterday walking around in my techcrunch shirt at the Yahoo!HK headquarters =) once there i found myself surrounded by people in firefox, linux and all kinds of web 2.0 shirts; people handing out moo cards, showing off their flickr/cc stickers, giving interactive sessions on ajax, facebook, open social, desktop apps, digital printing, web service scalability...whatever you can think of. free coffee, cookies, chips and sandwiches were provided. it's surprising to see so many talented and generous people in HK who came here to share their love. or just to learn...like why i was there.
one of the 98 participants was raymond chung, founder of OPENRICE.com! i told him how i couldn't live without openrice and how the mobile version of the site proves handy for eaters on the go like me...haha. now i know i'm one of the 60 hongkongers who actually use the mobile site :) he also told me how he's hated by restaurants with bad reviews and that he had to be careful not to reveal his identity when going to these places for food.....hahha...it was a random yet memorable chat. you can say hello to him at his tech blog here =p
chatted a little with chris heilmann, a warm guy who came all the way from london! thanks for the moo card, chris ;)
other people i recognized include edison chok a.k.a. edchok from dookaz, sponser of the barcamp shirt; charles mok - the guy who needs no introduction; rebecca mackinnon the freespeech activist; angus lau - one of the organizers and a cheerful guy from 852signal and editgrid who has a firefox shirt and two lovely cats at home; leon ho of stepcase.com who gave an interesting presentation on web scalability and took a photo for me, haha; ben cheng whom i met once at the creative commons workshop; and a couple of developers from beansbox and outblaze...
IT'S GREAT FUN :D
can't wait for the next barcamp to come!!!!
more photos: my photo set / photos tagged with barcamphongkong2007
discussions: facebook group & wiki
thanks Laihiu~
nice to meet you, finally... :P
Outblaze Hong Kong (on flickr) — 16th December, 2007 @ 4:16 am
[...] It was quite tech oriented even though we tried not to promote that at first, but the result was really exciting, as Daisy had summed up her thoughts and numbers on BarCamp, as did Rebecca MacKinnon and Laihiu. [...]
BarCamp Hong Kong at 852signal - Hong Kong Web 2.0 — 18th December, 2007 @ 9:27 pm
[...]Hong Kong's web community is full of some really fabulous, energetic people. The first ever Barcamp Hong Kong on Saturday left no doubt about that! Ryanne (the photo above is from her camera) sums it up[...]
RConversation — 18th December, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
[...]A nice group photo of Barcamp Hong Kong 2007 taken by Ryanne. I look forward to join next Barcamp in 2008.[...]
sammy — 18th December, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
you were at yahoo?? you should find me la haha
bingchi — 18th December, 2007 @ 11:00 pm
[...] Hong Kong's first ever Barcamp on the 15th of December 2007 was a great success. Around 70 Barcampers spread out over four meeting rooms of the Yahoo! offices on the 27th floor in Sunning Plaza to share information and show solutions they've built. Photo by ryanne lai [...]
Christian Heilmann — 19th December, 2007 @ 12:11 am
Nice Photo!
Steven Mak — 19th December, 2007 @ 10:30 am
So poor I can't join.
Hope I can join BarCamp next year!
ClubEddy — 19th December, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
[...] and attendees at Hong Kong Phooey, 852Signal, Digital Anthology (also this primer), RConversation, d.otted rhythm, and others. Victor of Hong Kong Phooey also runs a CNet blog in which he goes over the [...]
Outblaze Blog » The first ever BarCamp Hong Kong — 11th January, 2008 @ 3:02 pm