Good wrap-up of Oddcon. I’m only now recovered enough to start blogging about it and catching up with some of the people I met. Sorry I didn’t catch you on Sunday, it was a busy one.

I agree with the comments on the quality of the moderators, and I do find this at any con or seminar I go to. If the moderator isn’t prepared, or at the very least, good at winging it, the panel will suffer no matter how interesting the topic and/or panelists. Unfortunatly one or two of the Oddcon sessions I went to had moderator issues.

I really enjoyed Patrick’s panels as well, even when he wasn’t moderator he really added good things to every talk he was involved in.

It’s funny, I really only went to one panel each that involved the GOHs. I was so engrossed in all the other authors and what they had to say, that I really missed out on Baker and Martin. The good thing was that they drew many participants to their sessions, which left a small group at anything going on opposite them. This made for good discussions and lots of audience participation. I still feel like I learned a ton and met plenty of other interesting people. I would recommend it as well.

I’ll drop you an email and catch up on everything else soon. Great meeting you!