So EuroOSCON's just finished and I'm sitting in the foyer killing time before the flight back. There were some interesting talks here but I come to these things to meet people and that's been really interesting. Someone once said that the talks at conferences were a bit like the storyline in porn movies - you've got to have them but they're not why you watch - I couldn't have phrased it better.

Since I've been here I've been fortunate enough to talk with almost the whole O'Reilly team including Tim as well as Dion Almaer from Ajaxian.com, some of the Mozilla folks, the 'Ubertechnical Lead' at Google and several of the other usual suspects. It's a real privilege to get to run an idea past these people and incredibly useful to get their response to it.

What was the response? Well, without going into specifics, it was mostly good with a healthy dose of nonplussed and a couple of wows. Bit of a rollercoaster but on balance I'm pleased and it looks like a couple of things may well come out of this week - there's now some solid incentives to hit alpha by January.