Starting in September, which is right around the corner in case you hadn’t noticed, there is a series of conferences that have entered my radar as something that might be edifying for me to attend. There may just be too many of them.
Podcamp Philly is the first of these, on September 6th and 7th. Like each of these conferences, this one has a theme. Being that this is a podcamp, the topic is “new media”. I’ve been following the PANMA list for a year and a half and I’m still not sure what anyone really means when they say “new media”, but I think it has something to do with blogging and podcasting and stuff like that.
Later in September (20-21) is Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. I’m waiting to hear more glowing reviews of this event from last year’s attendees. This is a pretty expensive conference for blogging, and I wonder who the target market really is: bloggers or blog integrators. I think it’s the latter, which it might be nice to pitch Habari at, but I’d like to get real users, not SEO people and themers. Maybe that’s just me. Still, it would be nice to hobnob with the big players.
The next weekend, on the 27th, is BlogOrlando. I went to BlogOrlando last year, and it was a good time, but I had to leave for another conference immediately afterwards, so I didn’t get to stick around for any of the good networking. Maybe this year will be different.
Once again, Ohio Linux Fest is on this year, and contrary to fears, it’s not going to interfere with BlogOrlando, since it falls on October 11th. Ohio Linux Fest is the birthplace of Habari, and it’s always fun to visit skippy and Columbus. If all goes as planned, we might even have a 0.6 release to announce by then.
Beyond that (or maybe in-between it), there are forces planning a BarCamp for Philadelphia, which is finally (possibly) the correct venue to start talking about how cool Habari is. That’s why I go to all of these things anyway – to spread the Habari joy while meeting other interesting people that do what I do.
Is there any other event I should attend? As if I need to add more to the list…
