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Lift 07 – Day 1

February 8th, 2007

Lift really started today and had a bunch of very different talks that I attended. I’m not even going to try to summarize them – [Stephanie][1] and [Bruno][2] are doing a wonderful, wonderful job with their notes. (I wonder how Bruno manages to attend (seemingly) every talk and publish a concise recap with pictures and links within hours. Must be that journalist thing :) – or a couple of ghost writers maybe? )

The personal highlight for me was the talk by Prof. Sugata about the [hole in the wall][3] experiments. Fascinating, fascinating. He put a computer up in slums or very rural areas of India and watched how kids in the 6-13 year age bracket educated themselves to using the computer, surfing the internet, even learning around 200 words of english – all without any intervention from teachers.

The most incoherent talk was by [Bernino Lind][4] who did an extravagant show with three guys playing the accordion, a slide show of pictures and a talk that talked about – yes – what did he talk about?

People met:

* [Adrian Kosmaczewski][5] – preaching Rails in Lausanne
* [John Buckmann][6] – Bookmooching and being a really nice guy (an old Lotus Notes hand, it seems :-) )
* [David Galipeau][7] – sharing fondue and white wine

and a lot of others, that I can’t remember in my current – semi-catatonic state… Will be updated as necessary

[1]: http://climbtothestars.org/
[2]: http://giussani.typepad.com/
[3]: http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/02/lift07_sugata_m.html
[4]: http://nice-bastard.blogspot.com/2007/02/wanna-hook-up.html
[5]: http://kosmaczewski.net/
[6]: http://www.liftconference.com/2007/people/participant/189
[7]: http://www.liftconference.com/2007/people/participant/252

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