C4[1] Thanks

Only a week ago we laid C4[1] to rest. Feels like a month ago.

I needed to go heads-down the week after C4[1] in order to catch up with client work. I have a ton of email from you guys that I’ll be catching up on this week. Apologies for my latency.

I have a list of things to blog about C4[1], but before anything else, I want to thank the following people:

• Bob Frank for bringing together our A/V recording + file server hardware story, running a camera, going hotel shopping with me and conning me into starting C4 in the first place.

• Tim Allison and Victoria Wang for manning the registration table. Victoria also helped fold your t-shirts and sort your name badges.

• Pat Hughes for running this year’s A/V and dealing with a late-binding crazy man like me.

• Chuck Remes for buying a new raw 500GB drive on my behalf when I was running late on Friday, and for taking care of the leftover Saturday night pizzas for us.

• Alex Payne for offering to morph the C4 twitter account into a backchannel for the weekend. I think it worked extremely well and added a lot of value to the conference.

• All the Speakers. You guys were fantastic. At least four of the speakers were completely new to giving talks. I defy you to list them. All of you put on excellent, professional-caliber presentations about great topics. I especially enjoyed how later presenters made joking references to prior presenters’ points.

• drunkenbatman. You can thank DB for C4’s existence. More than anything else, the success of his Evening at Adler showed me something like C4 was even possible. DB brings legitimate criticism to our echo chamber. I’m only unhappy his early topic flashbang derailed the rest of the discussion.

• Iron Coder entrants. Thanks for working hard creating great hacks and showing them off. When I announced the API+theme, I wondered how many would be able to roll with it. I should have known better given the caliber of talent that’s in this community.

• All the Attendees. C4 couldn’t exist without you guys. You care deeply about great hardware+software and work hard to make things better. It’s no joke that it’s an honor to be in your company.

Monday, August 20, 2007
12:00 AM