Base Camp 2008 !!!!!
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Wow, thanks for chiming in!
This sounds like it will be a great event and I only hope I am one of the few who gets a Golden Ticket. -
Thanks for the clarifications, Aidan.
And, as I noted above, I am quite willing submit to cybernetic "enhancement" for the opportunity to participate in all this SketchUp goodness. I, for one, welcome our dominant-search-engine-providing web-application-developing virtual-globing do-no-evil-ing overlords.
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I'm hoping to attend. I'd have to cash in all my airmiles points as I'm about as far away from San Francisco as you can be while still on the same continent. I attended the BaseCamp in Boulder and it was a great pleasure to get to meet the company staff and other users. Hanging out with Mike Lucey, Alan Fraser, Fred Abler, John Clements, Steven Johnson, Susan Sorger, Jim Holman, Ken Foster, and Allister Godfrey was a real pleasure well worth the costs of the trip.
Thinking back another great benefit of attending was getting to meet Olle Bergman from Sweden. When I started with version two of SketchUp seeing Olle's images was a great inspiration (He likely made that example image in version one). I think he was the first 'Master', or at least was so for me. It was also wonderful to meet other Masters like Todd Burch and Coen!
Anyways, the memories of the last one have me hoping I can attend this one. I look forward to meeting the faces behind the names of those we see posting here.
Regards, Ross
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Thanks Aidan for the looong words (I can imagine writing such a post)
Actually what we have had in mind for an European meeting is surely nothing like a "counter-bas camp" - it's more just like an idea for a (definitely smaller scale) regional meeting of the members here (or actually anyohne interested).
Surely it should be after the one at Mountain View - exploiting all the experiences there. And yes, if such an event happens here, I'd really love as many of you guys over there to participate - and I guess others are just like that, too. But we deliberately started a new topic on this so we don't want to hijack the Basecamp at MV thread.
As for the programme you outlined; it's very attractive, I can tell. Being very tempted myself to participate, I should really find some way to California (and well I have only been to the East Coast so far anyway)
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Well if you've only been to the east coast, you've gotta come to base camp! The west coast is SOO much better than the east. We're laid back and we have lots better weather
Just don't tell the folks on the east coast I said any of this.Anyhow I am totally excited about basecamp and too am hoping to attend. I just happened to move up near the Googleplex a few months ago to go to school at UC Berkeley, so its only an hour away from my house (whereas before I moved it was about 7 hours away). It should be awesome and I'm very pleased with the outline that Aidan provided. Most excellent!
Chris
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Will there be a band again? And a coyote or two? You have to uphold the 3D Basecamp traditions!
Of course, now that this is being run by Google it will probably be more like some PD or Max (the audio program, not the modeler) deejay/genius at the end of the room surrounded by holograph projectors and keyboards, remixing Autechre and NIN instrumentals...and instead of a coyote Muppet Labs will supply wildlife....
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For the happy few:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg8w2dp_6djbrz3czMaybe I should wait till there is a Base Camp 2008 EU.
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I'm definitely throwing my hat in the ring. My boss said He'll pay if I get a golden ticket. Now that I have the clearance, with my luck I won't get one.
I was not able to attend in o5', so the thought of being able to go in 08' just makes me giddy!
As for suggestions, gee, I really don't know, I'm just exited for the opportunity.
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There is a kind of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory excitement to all of this....
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Hey guys!! I've been absent for the past weeks or so due to tons and tons of work, but I wanted to jump in and say that I'm psyched for the 3D Base Camp and can't wait to meet ya'll!!
It should seriously be fun! ...Kind of like the TED event for SketchUp!
In case you thought we weren't crazy (and so you can recognize us newer Sketchers) here's a few shots of the newer additions to the SketchUp cuckoo's nest! http://picasaweb.google.com/sketchupblog/NewIshMembersOfTheSketchUpTeam
See ya there!!
Cheers,
- CraigDP.S. ...and some of you pledged to buy me a beer (or two) if I remember correctly!
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Oh -- and we are planning to have a band, but we're not sure who, yet. Anyone have any suggestions? We're thinking something between CraigD with an iPod, and U2...
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@lewiswadsworth said:
There is a kind of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory excitement to all of this....
I like that -- that's one of my all-time favorite books. It's a good thing we aren't making anyone buy 6,000 chocolate bars to have a shot at coming, though.
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@craigd said:
Hey guys!! I've been absent for the past weeks or so due to tons and tons of work, but I wanted to jump in and say that I'm psyched for the 3D Base Camp and can't wait to meet ya'll!!
It should seriously be fun! ...Kind of like the TED event for SketchUp!
In case you thought we weren't crazy (and so you can recognize us newer Sketchers) here's a few shots of the newer additions to the SketchUp cuckoo's nest! http://picasaweb.google.com/sketchupblog/NewIshMembersOfTheSketchUpTeam
See ya there!!
Cheers,
- CraigDP.S. ...and some of you pledged to buy me a beer (or two) if I remember correctly!
I'll buy you a beer Craig! And you know, I would have never thought, in a million years, to pose like you did for that picture. (not that I could!)
Todd
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Wow, I would love to be in invited! This would be sooo awesome! Count me in!
If I don't get invited, maybe I'll just crash...
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@aidanchopra said:
@lewiswadsworth said:
There is a kind of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory excitement to all of this....
I like that -- that's one of my all-time favorite books. It's a good thing we aren't making anyone buy 6,000 chocolate bars to have a shot at coming, though.
If you wanted to really freak us out, all you Googlers should turn up at the opening ceremony dressed like Oompa-Loompas and speaking in rhyme. I know that I would probably just collapse to the floor and start gibbering...
Someone will have to play Wonka, of course. Got anyone on staff who is tall, thin, and slightly creepy in a tophat?
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@aidanchopra said:
Oh -- and we are planning to have a band, but we're not sure who, yet. Anyone have any suggestions? We're thinking something between CraigD with an iPod, and U2...
Just find out who is currently deejaying at Club Technochocolate, and get them to moonlight at the Googleplex.
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@lewiswadsworth said:
deejay/genius at the end of the room surrounded by holograph projectors and keyboards, remixing Autechre and NIN instrumentals...
druel
If only the droves of unwashed SUers had such 'generative' taste...
There should be a dedicated YouTube account for this as well so we can all get in on the action.
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Just saw the announcement for Apple's WWDC* in SF June 9-13.
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...what to do... what to do...
- World Wide Developer's Conference
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@unknownuser said:
Just saw the announcement for Apple's WWDC* in SF June 9-13.
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...what to do... what to do...
- World Wide Developer's Conference
Hmmmm, spend the week with a homogenous group of psuedo-social-elite-ists or come to basecamp with a diverse group of planetizens trying to learn from eachother and expand the collective human intellgience through SketchUpping.....
Chris
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"a diverse group of planetizens trying to learn from eachother and expand the collective human intellgience through SketchUpping"
That's fantastic, Chris. Do you mind if I quote you on the 3DBC micro-website we're building? I'm not sure where it will appear, but it's too good to leave out : )
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