Coder’s Vacation : #RICON2012 Photos So Far…

All of these images can be viewed here: http://adronhall.smugmug.com/Software/Meetups-N-Conferences/RICON-2012

San Franciscans heading to work, to RICON and wherever they want to.
San Franciscans heading to work, to RICON and wherever they want to.
RICON 2012 SWAG.
RICON 2012 SWAG.
Main Room Filling Up...
Main Room Filling Up…
...and filling up some more.
…and filling up some more.
Basho Crew taking care of conf biz...
Basho Crew taking care of conf biz…
...handling the room.
…handling the room.

The Basho team including Tom Santero @tsantero, Shanley Kane @shanley, and others rocked putting things together and getting everything to us attendees and making sure we headed off like herded cats in appropriate paths to the sessions. Great job! You guys rocked it!

Mark kicking things off...
Mark kicking things off…

All of this hard work setup for a great conference experience with content and more (see my previous blog entry for more). But I digress, on to more pictures. To the right Mark Phillips @pharkmillups kicking off the conference. Below is Don Rippert @djrippert giving an intro, where he pointed out a very important notion, “…this big movement isn’t about cloud or nosql, the movement is about distributed systems…”.

Dan Rippert Basho CEO
Dan Rippert @djrippert Basho CEO
Talking ACID. Absolutely great talk by Joseph Hellerstein, Professor, UC Berkeley
Talking ACID. Absolutely great talk by Joseph Hellerstein @joe_hellerstein, Professor, UC Berkeley
Portland Representing, Selena Marie Handling the Postgresql Preso
Portland Representing, Selena Marie @selenamarie Handling the Postgresql Preso
Amber handling the logistics, thanks for finding my hoodie when it disappeared!
Amber @amberishikawa, thx for finding my hoodie when it disappeared!
Portland Basho Office Representing, Eric Redmond, database guy @coderoshi
Portland Basho Office Representing, Eric Redmond, database guy @coderoshi
George Reese @georegereese & James Urquhart @jamesurquhart
George Reese @georegereese & James Urquhart @jamesurquhart

George & James, when not at baseball games or thrashing some guitar do some distributed computing system things over at Enstratus. Both of these guys write some seriously solid material, so hit the google and do a search on these guys, then read their books & articles. Cheers guys, good to catch up!