Mike Baldwin

Where have I been?

In short, nowhere new. Just school and work, haven’t had a lot to blog about. ACL was a blast, big props to Chris H. for letting me crash at his place in Austin I had waaay too much fun.

Today was CampFiber here in LFT, in short I think it was a success and I really hope to see more events like it in the near future. It almost inspired me to become a developer but I think I’d be showing up a little late to the party with little to offer. I trust the local brains to do what’s right for the community. If it looks like they’re not going in the direction they should be I’d step in but I doubt it.

To see Terry Huval conversing with local developers about potential uses of the fiber network is pretty inspiring to me. You don’t see that kind of thing normally. Certainly Verizon would never send their CEO and members of the team to some town in South Louisiana to talk about settop boxes, fiber rollout, etc. So that in itself was pretty cool. It was also cool to see developers share their applications and talk about the industry as it exists now and will be in the future.

Didn’t really meet too many new people, a couple on twitter but I never got as far as to saying Hello. Had to jet out early, work and such, but very inspirational nonetheless, props to Geoff Daily, Abacus, and LUS for putting it on.