Damn! Speaking of geeky gatherings, I just learned that the upcoming RailsConf 2006 conference's selected talks have been published and after a quick scan through the talk descriptions, I'm happy that the conference sold out ages ago. Otherwise, I would've been tempted to do a little summer vacation trip to Chicago in June. And that would've cost muchos dolares...

On a side note, it's an interesting phenomenon that a conference sells out weeks before the program is made public? If my memory serves me correct, only the keynotes were known at the time registration opened :)

Holy index card, Batman!

We had registrations pouring in all the way until 3pm yesterday before the seminar, ending up at a rather amazing 184 registrations in total from 64 different companies or organizations. With a few cancellations, I'd wager that we had around 190 people on the registrations list at some point. I have yet to see statistics about how many of the 184 actually showed up but even taking into consideration the usual no-show percentages for free-of-charge events, what we have is a large and growing community of software professionals interested in agile methods.

I won't try to do a braindump right now (Jan Wikholm did that already) because I really should be packing up stuff (I'm moving house this weekend). Instead, I'd just like to thank everyone who came--while I enjoy the seminars myself, it's nothing compared to that feeling of accomplishment when someone comes up to say "thank you" for making the seminar happen. Also, thanks to Vasco, Sebastian, and Joseph for entertaining the rest of us with your presentations, and thanks to Timo and Johanna from Reaktor for helping out with the arrangements with Kiasma.