Un-conferencing

Facebook pictures from the Israeli games unconference we had last month.

http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=49055263011&view=all

It was the first un-conference we went to and it was great. The freestyle atmosphere seemed to allow much more interaction between everyone there. It also made the lectures become discussions, which is awesome for people who attend a lot of conventions and conferences and keep hearing the same basic level lectures. These lecturers often address a fairly low common denominator in terms of industry knowledge. The unconference somehow shortens the distance between the podium and the seats so that even the most structured presentations quickly make way for an open peer to peer discussion.

This unconference was great thanks to Yossi Vardi, Guy Ben-Dov and Oded Sharon who put it all together. And there you have another advantage of an unconference: Guy and Oded didn’t look half dead at the end of the day the way they usually do when organizing such an event.