An Event Apart Boston 2007 was the best attended show since Mr Meyer and I founded our design conference scarcely sixteen months ago. Attendees came from as far away as Singapore and India. They hailed from Bulgaria (2), Canada (12), Estonia (1), Finland (2), India (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Singapore (1), Sweden (1), the UK (3), and the US (510).
In all, 546 web artisans descended on Boston for our two-day event. The engagement and commitment of this audience were electric. Rather than waste pixels on my impressions of the show, I submit these third-party posts and artifacts:
Photos and slide shows
- Flickr Event Apart Boston 2007 photo pool
- Featuring swag, special effects, and the elusive decopus.
- Ethan Marcotte’s Event Apart slides
- Viewing slides without seeing the speaker’s live presentation is like trying to understand world events by looking at a photo of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nonetheless, here are the slides from “Web Standards Stole My Truck!”
- Dan Cederholm’s Event Apart slides
- Beautiful slides (same disclaimer applies) plus a nice little post.
Posts and commentary
- Pelennor Fields Day One
- Pelennor Fields Day Two
- Matt Winckler’s quick summaries and reviews of the presentations. “The goal is to provide a few-sentence summary of each talk, followed by my quick rating on a scale of 1 to 10, followed again by my brief explanation of the rating.”
- stevekarsch.com: An Event Apart, Day One
- stevekarsch.com: An Event Apart, Day Two
- Steve Karsch’s notes make you feel as if you were there.
- Chausse.org: Thoughts from An Event Apart
- “An Event Apart Boston was a great experience. Whenever I’m at a conference, I get an insatiable urge to drop whatever I’m doing with my life and become an expert at whatever the speaker’s talking about. Anyway, a few notes.”
- An Event Apart Boston – from the Aten Blog
- Justin Toupin, co-founder and design lead for Aten Design Group, reviews the show: “The conference was amazing. Nine expert speakers presented on a range of topics from the conceptual to the practical. I’ve never been so happy to sit in one place for so long.”
- Ed’s Development Blog: Back from AEA
- Ed Higgins: “It was the first conference I’ve been to that I’ve been sad about it ending. Typically the last day of most conferences just drags… At AEA, every session was gold and I wish it could’ve lasted longer.”
- AEA Boston, Day One: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Writing the User Interface
- Cromulent Code: write-up of “Writing the User Interface,” my talk on Day One of An Event Apart Boston 2007. “How text contributes to a site/s usability and branding.”
- Grapefeed: An Event Apart
- Grapefeed’s experiences at An Event Apart Boston included a nerve-grinding, last-minute scramble to an alternate train station when the Back Bay station was sealed off because of a gas leak. (Same thing happened to me.)
- ivantohelpyou: Notes from An Event Apart, Boston, Day
- Blow by blow impressions.
- impending post explosion
- Stellargirl: “Just got back from An Event Apart Boston… I totally feel like the kid in that Far Side cartoon who says, ‘May I be excused? My brain is full.’”
- days without a job: An Event Apart – Boston
- “First day of a two day conference was great. We were told that there were more than 500 attendees!”
- Zeldman Gem of the Day
- Hardly a gem, but this excerpt captures part of the thrust of my talk on “Selling Design.”
- Cameron Moll: AEA Boston
- Highlights from the perspective of a (great) speaker.
- Adobe’s Scott Fegette: CS3 Launch at An Event Apart
- “I’ve been answering questions all day at An Event Apart about the new CS3 products. Even better, I gave away … three advance copies of CS3 Web Premium to three lucky attendees. An Event Apart is a really great mix of disciplines all centering on site design and development. I’ve talked to educators, government developers, indie web production shops, animators and video pros- just in the last hour alone.” (Adobe was a sponsor of An Event Apart Boston.)
- Meyerweb: After Boston
- Event Apart co-founder Eric Meyer: “I see the attendees at AEA as the craftsmen and women of the web. Sure, there are shops mass-producing sites, the way a factory churns out cheap clocks. That’s fine if you just want something to put on your nightstand. But if you want an elegant, finely tuned work of art that you’d hang in a prominent place, a clock that is as much a point of pride as a timepiece—you find a craftsman. And that’s who came to Boston. That’s who comes to An Event Apart.”
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