I've posted my photos of Foo Camp on Flickr.

After the weekend, I'm a big fan of the totally unstructured self organizing conference. Of course, I was a big fan of this format before Foo Camp -- the Apache Hackathon and the PyCon sprints are some of my favorite events because of the self organization and the people involved. So it wasn't a surprise that I enjoyed the format. For every time slot there were at least 3 sessions that I really wanted to go to them. Obviously I wasn't able to do that. I also had a number of excellent conversations outside the sessions.

Some of the sessions that I went to included Open Source Hardware, Leadership Hacks, Creating Passionate Users - the Koolaid point, Technologies of Electronic Communication, Digital Identity, and James Duncan Davidson's conference photography tell all.

Mitchell Baker, Geir Magnusson, and I ran a session on Money, Power, and Open Source projects. In hindsight, we should have been prepared for a large crowd. As it was, the room was really full, and the discussion was pretty lively. The session was the beginning of a conversation that will move onto the foundations mailing list.

I hope that there will be more events like Foo Camp and Bar Camp -- there's plenty of room for more meetings like these.