So, December has come and it began from the opening ceremony. Big hall seated just a little bit less that 1500 happy attendees. We saw flashy interactive show with industry bosses talking about beautiful spaceships flying through infinite universe on different topics. We’ve been informed on Adobe’s invasion on the screens of all devices all over the world, next year plans on software development. They also showed us Flash 10 prototype working on communicators. The show was very well directed, along with some discrepancies – say, big prototype device could not connect to home computer, but that was OK, we already caught the idea and overall impression was perfect. After an hour the conference has began, and we went to sessions.

We won’t go into much details about sessions here, let’s just say they were different - from very well structured and performed to really boring ones. People were wandering around Community Pavilion, discussing things, eating and having troubles with wifi speed at the brakes between sessions. We really liked the atmosphere, very friendly and favourable for making new contacts.

At the middle of the day we visited Carlos Ulloa’s presentation on Papervision3D. He turned out as a friendly and philosophical-minded person, so we made friends with him immediately, and even managed to find out some plans on the evening. Rob Bateman from Away3D and Thomas Pfeiffer from Sandy3D were there too, so we had our “flashthreedee” gang formed for whole the conference.

Birds of Feather session became very important and interesting event for us. Sitting alltogether answering people’s questions, we learned a lot, it was some kind of sporting interest in the air, and we managed to find some common point in our vision. So, instead of silly fighting we shared our thoughts, answered a lot of different questions and stayed there for like two and a half hours, making friends and having fun. Thank you everybody!

After that we took a short brake and then met again (competitors + some activists form the meeting), to have our time without pressure, sitting in a good restaurant where Adobe evangelists were having party too (we decided not to disturb them). Yeah, then we moved to another place, and of cource, we got lost in the city, and it was far from boring. People! Meet your competitors, it is informative and fun!

Tomorrow: second conference day, how to make 1500 people happy, sleepless night before our session, and the session itself.