Trevor Smith has posted session notes from the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference. These were taken by several folks collaboratively using a Rendezvous aware application called Hydra. Hydra is a Rendezvous based collaborative writing application. If you are a Mac OS X user, you should check out this program. I plan to use at a meeting on Monday.

O'Reilly also has some of the presentation slides up on their site. Others will follow in the next few days.

Final Thoughts...
The atmosphere at ETech is part summer camp, part doctorial dissertation. Lots of very interesting and creative people. It's funny, you turn around and the guy next to you in the coffee line looks familiar. You nod hello and get your coffee... walk away... and a few minutes later it hits you... "Hey that guy is Jeff Bezos!..."

I posted earlier about Tom Hoffman's session. Tom is doing some very interesting work. If you ever run into him, be sure to ask him about his Steve Jobs moment... :-)

The collaborative nature of the sessions was something amazing. Between IRC, Confab, iChat, Hydra, the Wiki, and yes even the speakers at the front of the room... information was flying around. It was a great experience. This would be a great venue for education folks to hook up at. A lot of the technology that was being discussed will find its way into schools... of course we all know the old saying about the overhead projector and how it took 20 years to get it from the bowling alley to the classroom. Would be fun to work with folks to shorten and shape the migration...

I am attending NECC in June in Seattle with a group of folks from work, and plan to introduce them to some of the tools used at O'Reilly ETech.
Maybe even set up a Wiki for the event. If others are going lets get together and play a bit...