I think the concept is an ambitious one, and epitomises what needs to be done for Nashville to be taken seriously as a tech town. As has been seen at today’s Barcamp Nashville, there are a lot of extremely talented people with extremely big ideas. The fact that they are willing to share their ideas and route to success amongst their peers speaks volumes.

However, I think the problem with something like this, is that the people who really need to attend a conference like Barcamp Nashville never actually do. Partly, I believe where this is where my frustration of today’s event comes from. A lot of the presenters I had seen give a presentation before, so I wasn’t too interested in some of the talks on offer. This is not to say that they aren’t great speakers, because I have a lot of admiration for them, it’s just, well…I’ve seen it before.

On the other hand, I had to make the choice between a panel I would have liked to have seen and a couple of other things that were on at the same time, but perhaps this is just me being a whiney arsed Englishman (because moaning is a national past-time of the English). Please add me as a voice who would like to see the event spread out over multiple days – it just makes sense, maybe not logistically, but for more effective networking and presentation choices.

Oh, and one more thing before I finish, if this is Barcamp, why on earth was the bar so small? I’ve seen bigger bars in my granny’s closet.

Cheers.

See you there.