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I was the one on the Live Blog. Your posts were coming into the Live Blog, but I did not have time to respond to the Twitter posts. I was trying to keep up with the notes and posting pictures at the same time.
We had about 40 people in attendance. They had two photographers in attendance. They took quite a few photos of the event along with our 2011 FRC Competition Robot "LIZ" holding the agenda for the Hilton Garden Inn schedule of events. They have not posted the pictures as of yet, but I hope to get links to them.
We had a one in attendance who was a FLL mentor as well as helped out at FTC and FRC tournaments as a judge and inspector. Alan Majer with
http://www.goodrobot.com/ was in attendance. He has a session after ours on Robot Art that was very good as well. His notes for his session will be posted at Good Robot.
Steve Guengerich, Managing Director for BroadBrush Ventures - Appconomy organized the event. Steve's children were on Team 2468 and he contacted Joe Hershberger from National Instruments to see if they could get a panel for the SXSW Interactive portion of SXSW. Steve and I visited afterwards about the future possibilities of at SXSW. We hope to have a more of a presence in the future at the event in regards to
FIRST.
Here is a comment posted on the web about it: I'm super-excited about the Robotics mini-conference on Monday the 14th - see:
http://schedule.sxsw.com/?confer.... The speakers are amazing - Doug Lenat, Ariel Waldman, Rich Legrand, Alan Majer, and a whole team from National Instruments working with today's high schoolers to build tomorrow's super-machines. This field is the ultimate in convergence of interactive, hardware, software, materials, etc. Thanks to Hugh Forrest and the Southby team for having the forsight to sign off on it.