Socializing at WWDC
Justin Williams’s post on getting a student scholarship to WWDC 2004 (congrats, BTW, Justin!) reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to write about here: namely, the need for an informal, unofficial weblogger get together at WWDC.
You see, while I found last year’s conference informative almost to the point of information overload, one of the best parts for me was actually getting out and meeting my peers. Since then, I’ve always thought that WWDC would be at least an order of magnitude cooler if it could combine the level of informal evening socializing found at places like South by Southwest Interactive with—wait for it—actual, meaningful information exchange during the day (read this comic if you’re not sure what I’m talking about here, BTW)!
Perhaps these are just the mad rantings of a fevered brain, but I’d like to at least give it a try. My initial conception of such an event seems to involve a barbecue for some reason, but San Francisco is one of America’s great cities, and there is certainly no shortage of other possibilities. A sojourn at the fantastic Thirsty Bear (which is very close to the Moscone Center, produces excellent beer, and does not have a lackluster item on its menu) might be another idea. I suppose it might depend to a large extent on the size of the group involved…
So, then, Mac developer-webloggers: what do you think? Any interest? Ideas? If no one responds, no big deal—I’ll just call this an April Fools joke and go back to trying to think of something interesting to weblog about :-).