Overall, I think that the Edmonton Code Camp was a huge success. I remeber talking with my co-worker Anand about starting one and at the time it seemed to me like it was not possible.

 Fast forward a couple of months later to a .NET Wizards meeting with John Bristowe. John came up to me before the meeting and gave me some ideas to help get the code camp ball rolling.

With the help of the guys at EDMUG, our speakers and our contributors over the months leading up to the code camp it all came together.

Some things that I will do different next year based on the comments

- Change of venue. 1 meth addict walking into the room is 1 too many.

- Rate presentations on the 100, 200, 300, 400 scale. This was something simple I could have done but forgot to do.

- More coffee, investigate airborne caffeine. This was the best I could do.

- Do a trial run with projectors. The projector troubles of the Edmonton Rails Group is entirely my fault. I apoligize!

- The thing that I regret the most about the code camp is the way the swag give away at the end went down. I had no idea that security would kick us out the way they did. I worked hard getting the books and swag and I was looking forward to seeing who would get each item but this was not possible due to time constraints.

I was very happy with the attendance and the patience of the attendees. One thing I didn't expect was Lee to bring a shuttle PC to the event:

Lastly, thank you to all the speakers! Everyone exceeded my expectations in their presentations.

If you would like to check out the rest of my pictures from the code camp you can check out the Edmonton Code Camp Flickr photo set. The code camp is also going to be podcasted on Developer Night in Canada so subscribed in your favorite rss reader and keep an eye on it.

If there are any other questions, comments or concerns about the code camp, please leave a comment here and I will see what I can do.

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