I mentioned earlier here that there’s something very interesting being organized up on NYC – a participant-driven, seat-of-the-pants UnConference on all things FileMaker, called PauseOnError. It runs July 16-17 – which means it starts tomorrow.
Since Ernest Koe, John Sindelar and Andy Gaunt started glomming this together less than three weeks ago, it’s blossomed into a very real entity, with over 20 presentation sessions and now 60 RSVPs. Some of the sessions may spill out to local coffee shops, or even to Madison Square Park, weather depending.
And now there’s talk of spawning the idea in Portland and London in 2010.
All in all it’s a testament to the power of social media (which until recently I reserved some skepticism for) and to community-driven efforts (which I’ve always believed in full-on). I’ll be blogging/tweeting (@phillyfilemaker) to a certain extent on Thursday to provide some basic reporting of the event, and I’ll try to write a more comprehensive recap when I get back.
There are still plenty of open slots in the schedule for presenting (the schedule’s been broken into three session tracks), so if you have some crazy idea you want to toss out in front of your peers, now would be a good time to head up (or down, or across) to Manhattan.
Seriously – if you’ve got a light schedule tomorrow and/or Friday, get to the Ace Hotel now.
