The eComm2008 Conference

By James Duncan Davidson on March 12, 2008 10:30 AM | 2 Comments
Tagged: conference, photo
For the next few days, I'll be in Mountain View, California shooting the eComm2008 conference at the Computer History Museum. This conference is the follow on event to ETel 2006 and ETel 2007. When it became clear that ETel 2008 wasn't going to happen, Lee S. Dryburgh decided that he didn't want to see the community that had formed around ETel to go away. So he dug in and spent at least 5 months of his own time putting together an independent conference. 

eComm2008

As part of the event, Lee asked me if I'd come out and shoot this conference like I had shot the ETel events. Luckily, I had an opening in the schedule, so here I am. If you are interested in seeing the photos from the event, I'll be adding them to the eComm2008 set on Flickr throughout the rest of the week.

Lee S. Dryburgh    Michael Shiloh    Norman Lewis

It's quite the accomplishment to put together a conference of this scale, especially for the first time. And, it looks to be a success. The room is full with a passionate group of people and I've had barely enough space in a corner of the main to work on the first morning and ended up moving to a location just outside the speaker room. Lee deserves a round of applause for making this happen.

Related: Jesse Gardner writes about his design for the identity eComm, and includes some of my photos in his post (with permission). I thought the graphic design of the conference and the community website was very well executed. Great work Jesse, and thanks for the shout outs!

This is one of 188 blog posts on duncandavidson.com. If you care to read more, two posts I recommend are Dear Speakers, a set of thoughts for public speakers that I pulled together in March, 2009 and Tilting at the Windmill, One Last Time, a call to Flickr to include important EXIF and ITPC metadata in the photographs they provide to the public.

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Beautiful shots!

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Jesse Gardner
Comment left on 03/13/08
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Hi Duncan Im after a bit of advice, if you wouldn't mind passing on your knowledge. I work for the police and have been asked to photograph a conference today, I know..great planning but typical of them. I haven't shot indoors at such an event an wondered how to go about it. they want shots of 1. the chief constable. 2. guest speakers. 3. entertainment. 4. guests dining and enjoying the event.
I really would appreciate your help on this. I am due at the event at 2.30 today until 11pm tonight.

regards Garry

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Garry Rawlinson
Comment left on 10/15/08
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