Wow we survived!

Last week was PDC in LA and we did The Underground @ PDC event, I had worked on this event for almost 6 months. We had a bunch of last minute drama around some of the speakers but it all went off without a hitch.

We had TechZulu there, they did about 15 interviews and streamed all the presentations live. Microsoft’s UGTV (User Group TV) was there as well and will be posting segments on TechNet Edge in about 2 weeks. We had two photographers who took some outstanding photos, see them on The Underground site soon and filckr.

I all we had 396 people at the event and the content should reach at least 30,000 people as it gets posted over the next 2 to 3 weeks. And all I can say was it was a hell of a lot of work but wow was it worth it not only was it a bunch of fun for everyone who came but many people who did not go to the PDC (or even know what PDC is) will get to see some information about the PDC announcements.

It’s back!

The new site is http://underground.socalcodecamp.com go signup!

Some Background: At the last PDC the team that runs the event was (as is appropriate) concerned with the attendees and the national press that was generated form the event. But they did not allow for any local community interaction so I did an event that was for the SoCal local developers. The catch was the PDC team did not want us to compete with the main event so we just tried to not let them know about the event so we called it PDC Underground. At the TechEd before the last PDC the Regional Directors had just done there Grok Talks so I asked them to come and do a Grok Talks live event at the PDC Underground. The event was great and everyone had a great time and learned a lot!

So here comes the next PDC back in Los Angels what do you think I am doing? :) That’s right but I lost the cool domain name and for internal reasons we have try to remove it a little from PDC so the name “The Underground” is being used. As for location we got what must be the coolest location a geek event has ever taken place in, it’s called The Edison. The Edison was the first private power plant in Downtown LA and much of the old equipment has been incorporated in to the venue. And it’s really under street level so it’s the perfect place to do the event!

I hope you all can make it there not much room at the event so signup quick!

Update: I for got to link to the WayBackMachine link to the old site so here it is pdcunderground.com.

The PDC team just listed some of the sessions that will be at PDC08… I can’t wait, read the titles and descriptions and you too maybe able to figure out what the big news at PDC will be ;).

PDC2008 Sessions Overview