Cinnamon does @media 2006

Some companies take their employees out for a survival weekend. We decided to take the Cinnamon team to @media 2006, which is, of course, much more fun and inspiring. It was great after all these years to finally meet in person some of the people we've known and admired from our side of the screen. Jeff Veen stole the show as far as I'm concerned (he practices what he preaches), but we pretty much enjoyed all of the speakers. I was also especially impressed by Cameron Moll and Andy Budd. Both seem completely at home on stage; they are clearly very talented. Robin Christopherson was just fantastic. The fact that he suffered through so many technical difficulties inadvertently got everyone talking about what blind people have to go through on a daily basis. He was the perfect persuader in the case for accessibility. Don and I very much wanted to see Tantek and Andy Clarke respectively, but alas, we had to catch the plane back to Holland. So many people complained about the (lack of) wi-fi, but apparently there's a good explanation for that. Here are a few links to the slides (or notes) of a few of the presentations I was able to see (panels not included):

• Jeff Veen on Web 2.0 (PDF, about 18Mb)
• Andy Budd on Bugs
• Dave Shea on Typography for the Web

And one of the two I really wanted to see, but couldn't: Tantek Çelik on Microformats. (Andy, let me know if you post yours ;-) Andy has posted a huge PDF and a movie. The first evening, we went to The Mint Leaf. I thought it was great fun, and it's always nice to be around colleagues in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. But try as one may, you just can't get us to shut up about making websites. We've posted a few pics.