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OpenWorld Manifest: Days 0 and 1

By Jake • October 13th, 2009 • View Comments

Even though many of you are either here in rainy San Francisco or are following OpenWorld via its many virtual channels (#oow09 on Twitter, OpenWorld Live, OraNA (and @orana), etc.), I figured I’d give you a list of what I’ve been doing.

Sunday, Day 0:

• Landed around 11:30 in Oakland.
• Spent 35 minutes in the Bay Bridge maze.
• Saw an awesome OMG!!! PONIES!1! bumper sticker.
• Missed the start of Chris Bucchere‘s Ruby session.
• Hung out with Rich and Raimonds after the session.
• Went to the not-yet-open OTN Lounge to visit Justin.
• Noted his ORACLENERD shirt, lurking under his fleece.
• Plotted world domination with Rich over giant burritos.
• Waited to meetup with Floyd.
• Ran into Ted and had a drink.
• Bailed on Floyd who had better things to do
• Checked into hotel to discover the bar and room service were already closed.
• Felt disappointed.

Monday, Day 1:

• Arrived at OTN Lounge to catch the morning keynote.
• Plotted world domination with Rich.
• Ran into Tim.
• Plotted world domination with Paul.
• Said hello to Floyd before his unconference session.
• Had a ZOMG moment when he gave us Mars Rover stickers.
• Forgave him for blowing me off on Sunday
• Plotted world domination with Rich, Paul and Anthony.
• Went to WebCenter 11g Strategy and Vision session.
• Met our new boss, Rahul Patel.
• Plotted more world domination over lunch.
• Made the end of the WebCenter 11g introduction session.
• Noticed each session listed available space and reserved space.
• Chatted with Paul about how to build a game for speakers around those numbers.
• Chatted with Paul about predictive markets and under/over for session attendance.
• Decided that would be fun to pitch to Marketing next year.
• Hunkered down in the OTN Lounge to get serious on that domination.
• Ran into Floyd again.
• Met Espen, who had been stalking me on Foursquare
• Said hello to Marius.
• Headed to WebCenter 11g REST session.
• Got promoted to Superuser Level 1 in Foursquare.
• Gloated.
• Left session with some questions that we’ll need to address.
• Hiked over to the Hilton with Anthony for WebCenter 11g hands-on lab.
• Finished the lab before Anthony.
• Gloated.
• Stole my first Foursquare mayorship, Jillian’s, doubt that will last.
• Had drinks with my old boss.
• Headed back to my hotel.

I’ll try to keep a log. It’s rainy like crazy today, which should make for an interesting day or more.

Possibly Related Posts

• OpenWorld Manifest: Day 2
• OpenWorld Manifest: Days 3 and 4
• Collaborate Days 1 and 2
• Final Observations from OpenWorld 2008
• Rocky Mountain, Hi