Winecamp Thanks

First off, thank you to the co-organizers, Greg & Gina from Compumentor, Jen Myronuk, Andrew Ferriere and Pascale Diaine. Without taking time out of your busy lives (and thanks to Riya, Compumentor and France Telecom for giving your employees up - me, included - from Friday onwards and from weeks before with our time).

Thank you also to our generous sponsors:

• Ferriere Vineyards - the location, the band, the amazing wine, Saturday's lovely dinner, the vineyards and all of your hard work
• France Telecom - Sunday's spread, the wifi and all of your hard work
• Edgeio - Saturday's Cowboy Breakfast
• Riya - Friday's Weenie Roast
• Technorati - All of our whiteboards and supplies for making the sessions happen
• Flock - Saturday's Abundant DIY Lunch
• Stormhoek - Lotsa wine
• Ritual Roasters - the fantastic coffee and coffee supplies
  
• Net Squared - for the fantastic promotion you did in getting the non-profit participants to sign up

There has already been a wee write-up in the SF Chron (with more to come) and plenty of positive posts.

Most of all, I want to thank (again), my employer, Riya, who has been uber patient while I've been dedicating much of my time to this project (which will be over by tomorrow night as we're in San Jose at the Net Squared Conference presenting on the findings of Winecamp tomorrow). The good news is that Riya was exposed to many non-profits as well as the media. We weren't able to use that API yet (it's coming soon...by Mashup Camp for sure), but have more geeks interested in using it for future projects. Plus, you can feel good that you've given back to the world...it was an amazing weekend for people there.

Tags: winecamp, barcamp, winecampcalaveras, riya