MinneBar 2: Wrap up

Nearly 400 people RSVP’d for yesterday’s remarkable MinneBar. If you didn’t make it, yes, you missed the The tech event of the year. Six sessions running simultaneously, taking up 2 floors in St. Paul’s Railroader building, and hallway conversation to match.


(photo: Steve Borsch)

Even as the attendance grows a hundred people at a time, Ben, Dan Grigsby, and Luke Francl continue create stronger and more engaging unconferences. Thanks guys.


(photo: Luke Francl)


(photo: Cody Hanson)

I’d also like to thank everyone that participated in the Designing for Use session. While 50 minutes was just enough to get warmed up, I think we had a pretty good conversation. Christopher Warren wrote up notes. That’s what unconferences are all about. Thank you.

“Hopefully my mumblings about users ignoring information in HUDs…and the need to push as much information as possible into the world …itself were useful to someone.” – Josh Lee

“The best session I attended was Garrick’s on Designing for Use. *That* session was pretty much an open session to discuss problems people were having and try to find solutions. More sessions like that one would have been great.” – J Wynia

Tim Elliott braved the room noise with his mic’d iPod in an attempt to capture some of the sessions.

Elsewhere: Leslie Brook Suzukamo explains Ruby on Rails for the St. Paul Pioneer Press