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Names & faces (Score:2)
That would be YAPC::NA 2002. It's funny how it takes time face-to-face to let the connections sink in. Of course, us relative newcomers know the old-timers on sight.
The exception to this was Graham Barr, who I don't think I've ever seen even in photograph before...
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gbarr (Score:2)
Shame on you for not knowing Graham! I spent more time with Graham this conference than ever before, and it was fun. He seemed more relaxed this year, though maybe I was projecting my own relaxation onto him :-) Paul Grassie (wunderinstruktor) took Graham and some Sanger Center suckers^Wvictims up Mount Hood, which provided amusing stories of torture and agony later ...
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Re:gbarr (Score:2)
Again, this was only conference #2 for me, unlike Gnat the old-timer.
There were a number of people that I met for the first time in Portland: Graham, Marty & Karen Pauley, Autrijus, Piers Cawley, Leon Brocard, Stas Bekman, Eric Cholet, mengwong, Sean Burke, Ask, Joe McMahon, Dan Sugalski, David Wheeler, Robert Spier, Tom Phoenix, chromatic, Curtis Poe, and on and on....
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