290 attendees.
$270,000 in prizes given away from over a dozen contributors.
6 tracks * 5 time slots = 30 presentations.
Lunch from Justix was so well orchestrated that all 290 people were feed in less than 15 minutes! Meat (and tofu) on a stick with custom sauces...delicious!
Yes, this year's Atlanta Code Camp was a record breaker on many fronts. We drew the largest crowd to date. 370 people registered and 290 attended. This marks the lowest rate (21% drop-off) of no-shows for any of the non-Microsoft organized .NET community events. Crowds were so large we almost had too many people for our venue!
Raffle prizes were so numerous that no one walked away without at least picking up a shirt or pen. Of course, this doesn't include the $700 worth of free software from Cizer which EVERY attendee received simply for showing up!
I personally want to say "Thank You" to Jim Wooley for spearheading the planning and organization of the 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp. The reason this event went off as well as it did was because Jim poured himself into the event.
The only shadow over the success of the event is that a laptop went missing. In the off chance that someone associated with the event mistakenly took the wrong laptop home, please send me a note so we can get it returned to it's rightful owner.
Thanks so much to every attendee, speaker, volunteer, and Microsoft who all contributed to make this such a memorable experience. Photos will be up on the Code Camp site soon...