This will be a short blog post, because I want to get out some thoughts as quickly as possible, not waiting for that time that never comes in which I sit and craft a well written lengthy text.
Which is why I didn't blog for some years now after I visited Marc Thieles phantastic event, even though I managed to be at least once in a year at one iteration of this very special conference.
So what has changed?
Well, nothing really, it is just that I want to say "Thank You" in a more persistent form. It has been time and time again that this carefully selected melange of topics, personalities and the gravitation this event seems to have on above-average nice people -- in the audience, in the background, and on stage -- has left me with re-filled batteries, with motivation and above all with that very special feeling that I 'belong' to an iternational community of people who do care about the same things that I do, who have a similar calling. And that although my "job" is of course work, I am truly priviledged to be "working" in one of the most fascinating fields of our time. And that my internal compass, while often irritating and irritated when confronted with the realities of client work, is on the right track regarding the greater whole. Yes, sounds cheesy, but what the heck.
So instead of trying to pour my thoughts into one monolithic blog post, here's my idea:
For the next couple of days, everytime I find a pocket of free space and time, I will write a short "Thank you" post around the people I met, or listened to. And maybe all this will give an expression why this conference has become very dear to me.
But first things first:
Thank you Marc for not only keeping this alive, but for still making this a very personal and heartfelt "thing", and for being such a terribly nice person in person.
And congratulations for 8 years of seeing this through, tripling your workload with the iterations in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich for the first time this year.
Fat r.e.s.p.e.c.t.
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Next in line in my series of "thank you" posts is Lyza.
This talk -- or more precisely, the talk's topic -- is far away from the stuff I'm usually dealing with. You know, design, front end, code and applications. And yet, this also something I cherish about Beyond Tellerrand conference: To get a glimpse of what lies, well, beyond the Tellerrand, the own horizon and sometimes comfort zone.
The technology Lyza talks about is very fascinating, and just another thing that seems to be easily forgotten in our all-too-much presentation-only day-to-day job: This is right at the very fabric of the web; connections, cross-references, urls and meaning.
So thank you Lyza for giving one of those talks that showed me something new. Not new like "new tricks in CSS" new, but new as in "wow, didn't know this is possible".
In my series of "Thank you"s regarding the community around the Beyond Tellerrand Conference, next is Holger.
Not only has he done one of the epic conference shirt motives himself, but has printed several editions of the yearly shirt editions.
Holger has been on nearly every Beyond Tellerrand conference, with his screen-print machine and fine collection of shirts, caps, sweats, you name it, and for years now we always have some chats in the breaks, and usually I find myself with the urge to buy something off his table sooner or later.
So thank you Holger for lugging all the equipment around, for our chats around screen printing and all the nice stuff you're putting out with IllHill. Hope to meet you again next time.
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