Ignite Portland was (insert your favorite fire-related metaphor here)
Ignite Portland, the Portland-flavored version of the O’Reilly concept designed to encourage the sharing of burning ideas in 5 minutes or less, just wrapped up.
Held at the Wieden+Kennedy office in the Pearl, the rumored-to-be-oversold attendance numbers—somewhat miraculously—proved to be exactly the number of people allowed by the fire code. Go figure.
Topics of the 18 presentations ranged from knitting to unicycling to chickens to turning Japanese.
Rest assured, there was some geeky stuff, as well.
Exit polls are looking very positive. Every presenter should be very proud. (I’m not going to call any favorites. But if you want to do so in the comments, I won’t stop you.)
A heartfelt thanks to the organizers: Josh Bancroft, Dawn Foster, Todd Kenefsky, Raven Zachary, and the bevy of other geeks and non-geeks who helped make this a reality. And an equally heartfelt thanks to all of the presenters who made this whole thing incredibly interesting.
If you missed the event, you can read the Twitter stream, check the photos by tag or in the Flickr group, wait patiently for the video to be uploaded, or you can read some of these recaps:
- Official Ignite Portland recap (to be posted October 26)
- Thank you thank you thank you for making Ignite Portland a success
- Ignite Portland kicked ass
- Ignite Portland event at W+K
- Cooling down after Ignite Portland
- Ignite and my bike
- Adam DuVander: Slides and links from Ignite Portland
- I know more about Russell Davies than I do about my boss sitting across from me
- For online Scrabble addicts
- Ignite: Stories and comments
- Ignite Portland Wrap-up
- All fired-up in Portland
- Ignite Portland debrief
- Burning down Portland (kind of)
- Ignite Portland: The Event
Got a recap? Post it to the comments and I’ll make sure to add it to the list.
(Personally, I got the chance to meet a bunch of the real-life versions of the avatars I see on a daily basis. To all of those folks, thank you so much. Great to see you. I know there were a bunch of people I missed, as well. And I’m truly sorry that we didn’t get the chance to meet.)
The next event is planned for January. Hope to see you—and meet you—there.
Things people have said about this post
From Justin Kistner on October 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Damn! I didn’t get to meet you.
From Thank you, thank you, thank you for making Ignite Portland a success! at Ignite Portland on October 25th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
[…] the next few days, I’m sure blog posts and photos will trickle onto the web. In fact, they already are. I’ll have the videos posted in a couple of weeks (some have asked why so long - it’s […]
From Wm on October 26th, 2007 at 3:41 am
A most excellent event. This was my third Ignite event (not counting DemoCamp; the other two were in the SF area), and was easily the best.
My favorite talk was the one on how chickens saved this woman’s life. When a speaker has only 5 minutes / 15 seconds per slide, there is a tendency to be kind of hyper and rushed, but the chicken presentation was relaxed and almost tranquil. That in itself is amazing, and the content was interesting, too.
There was only one presentation where someone seemed to be selling (cough, branding) and that was probably my least favorite one. But other than that, they were excellent!
From Todd on October 26th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Looks like the link to Scott Huber’s talk on Russell Davies is linked to Adam Duvander’s Simplicity post.
From Rick Turoczy on October 26th, 2007 at 8:41 am
@Todd: Thank you! Fixed.
From Noel Franus on October 26th, 2007 at 8:59 am
My first Ignite event, but certainly not my last. You guys did a stellar job of pulling it together. And the speakers and format provided a gumbo of ideas that I’m not sure I’ll see elsewhere for a long time. Thanks all.
From Ignite Portland Links « Dyepot, Teapot on October 26th, 2007 at 9:16 am
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From My Curious Life » All Fired Up in Portland on October 26th, 2007 at 9:38 am
[…] a name tag that said “Rick” on it. Hey Rick, were you hiding someplace? Rick has the best collection of posts and links from the event that I’ve seen so […]
From Dawn Foster on October 26th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Awesome - thanks for keeping track of all the post-Ignite coverage!
It was great to put a face with the avatar
From Jason Harris techcraver.com on October 26th, 2007 at 9:56 am
here’s my write up. I’m sorry I didn’t get to meet you. lets connect at the next one.
http://www.techcraver.com/2007/10/26/ignite-portland-debrief/
From Metafluence - Ignite Portland wrap up on October 26th, 2007 at 10:14 am
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From Josh Bancroft on October 26th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Thanks again for pulling this list together - really appreciate it!
And a huge thanks to everyone who attended, presented at, or helped us pull this off. It was a ton of fun, and I can’t wait for Ignite Portland 2 in January!
From llywrch on October 26th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Hey, just thought I’d say it was great to meet you and Mike Lucich last night. (And one thing I forgot to mention in my own blog account was that you’re taller in person than you appear to be on your blog.)
Geoff
From Robert Plastorm on October 26th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
This was better than I could have imagined! I’m hooked. Can’t wait for the next one.
From Ignite Portland Recap « Fast Wonder on October 27th, 2007 at 10:42 am
[…] tag. For complete coverage of the event with links to many other blogs discussing the event, visit Silicon Florist. Rick has done an amazing job of aggregating the event […]
From Dawn Foster on October 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I finally got around to posting my recap of the event: http://fastwonderblog.com/2007/10/27/ignite-portland-recap/
From » What’s that smell? Oh, Ignite Portland has started to smolder again - Silicon Florist on December 14th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
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