It's monday and time to get back to the normal routines (although I'm personally off for vacations now). I thought I'd sum up my personal experiences about Assembly 2009 in my blog just fast.

All in all the fair went really well and personally I had a blast. My last visit to the happening had been 12 years ago, in 1997, and I was really surprised how fun the event still was - especially if you feel you can contribute to the cause in some way.

I was greatly helped by all the enthusiastic people from the Laurea SIDLabs and all the Blender knowledgeable guys from the IRC channel #blender.fi. All in all I reckon we got about 300-400 visitors to the stand during the long weekend, some stayed for more, some for less, but most - I think - got to understand what the service is about. We got some 70 participants to the competition for the t-shirts and Blender Essentials -book. The winners have been all notified by email and/or by phone.

A more detailed post about the proceedings at the happening will be following, but I thought I'd post a couple of pics just as a "teaser". All photos in this post courtesy of Hege.

Picture 1. Eskil Steenberg at the Renderfarm.fi/Laurea stand (developer of Love and Loq Ariou)

Picture 2. Me and Nathan Letwory presenting Renderfarm.fi and the ORE project at ArtTech 2009

Picture 3. Nathan Letwory presenting the Renderfarm.fi Uploader script and Blender 2.5

PS. With the success of the Assembly 2009 participation, we will be checking out the possibility to participate at the AltParty also. What do you think?

Cheers,

Julius