{"id":636,"date":"2007-10-07T00:22:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T05:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/07\/meeting-of-the-minds"},"modified":"2007-10-07T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T05:22:33","slug":"meeting-of-the-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/07\/meeting-of-the-minds","title":{"rendered":"meeting of the minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reminded of an old painting, where there&#8217;s a meeting of minds. Since Heidelberg was largely informal (very few stand-up presentations with the audience sitting) with discussions, equally useful conversation and work were done over dinner, in hotel lobbies, and in-between <i>sessions<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/1469277506\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1432\/1469277506_66095bda6f.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"MySQL DevMeeting Evening Dinners\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Meeting of the Minds: Kaj and Jeremy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=1469277506&amp;size=l\">large<\/a>)<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I particularly like this photo, as there&#8217;s lots of community contributors in the photo. Clockwise from <a href=\"http:\/\/jcole.us\/blog\/\">Jeremy<\/a>, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/pbxt.blogspot.com\/\">Paul<\/a> (Mr. PBXT, and now MyBS), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbnewz.com\/\">Pascal<\/a> (Mr. Yahoo!) and David (co-Founder).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now uploading photos of <i>birds<\/i>, from our visit to Burg Guttenberg. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/tags\/heidelberg\/\">heidelberg<\/a> tag is definitely growing.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql\" rel=\"tag\">mysql<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/heidelberg\" rel=\"tag\">heidelberg<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/devmeeting\" rel=\"tag\">devmeeting<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/developer%20meeting\" rel=\"tag\">developer meeting<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dinner\" rel=\"tag\">dinner<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/photo\" rel=\"tag\">photo<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20meeting%20of%20the%20minds&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F10%2F07%2Fmeeting-of-the-minds&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Since Heidelberg was largely informal (very few stand-up presentations with the audience sitting) with discussions, equally useful conversation and work were done over dinner, in hotel lobbies, and in-between sessions. Meeting of the Minds: Kaj and Jeremy (large) I particularly like this photo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20meeting%20of%20the%20minds&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F10%2F07%2Fmeeting-of-the-minds&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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