The Twin Cities Conference Scene

Kyle Drake’s commentary from the ruby.mn mailing list, which I felt like sharing.

Some of the people there were kindof depressing, they would sit in the
presentation and not actually pay attention, but just type in their irc chat
rooms all day. [...]
It’s an interesting contrast to the Twin Cities scene though, where we
actually talk to eachother and take showers and radical concepts like that.
Long rant short, Railsconf was okay, but I liked Minnebar a whole heck of a
lot more.

It’s definitely true — although we certainly have our share of socially inept attendees, whether you’re talking SciFi cons or programming conventions, it seems like the Twin Cities scene is a lot more chatty and sociable (not to mention clean) than some others.