LesBlogs conference videos are online

Les Blogs videos are online. Thanks Rodrigo, Ivan and the entire vpod.tv team for all the time and means you have put into making all these videos available online.

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Thank you all for joining us !

Close to 400 bloggers from 30 countries joined us at Les Blogs thank you so much for traveling so far to make Les blogs a great two days, thanks, Guillaume, Elissabeth, Geraldine, Yannick, Nicole, Rodrigo, Ivan and everybody who helped organizing, thanks, speakers, thanks, partners, thanks everybody !

I will post more soon, here are already 700 posts and 3621 pcitures (including around 2000 from the first Les Blogs which was not last year but 6 months ago)...

Oh, before I forget of course I had great fun throughout the event and no, I was not trying to take out Ben Hammersley's kilt ! I regret not having been able to spend more time with each of you as I was running all around with the team to make sure everything was running smoothly. I'll see you all soon again I hope !

photos by Heiko.

-Loic, still rebooting...

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The backchannel is up !

Update: the backchannel is now on irc.freenode.net #lesblogs

Opening remarks: welcome to Les Blogs 2.0 !

On behalf of Six Apart, the entire team who organized les blogs that I will introduce you in a few minutes and all our partners, welcome to Les Blogs 2.0, welcome to Paris.

I can't believe you have made it all here today ! Here is where you are from to begin with. Let's raise your hands if you like when your Country is named to check we have the right statistics:

Registration: 8:15 on Monday Dec 5th

A quick post to remind all confirmed participants that the registration and a welcome breakfast buffet with "café & croissants" will open at 8:15 on Monday morning Dec 5th.

Your badges will be given to you at the registration desk.

Where :

Negocia
8 Avenue de la Porte de Champerret
75017 PARIS

Métro : Porte de Champerret or Louise Michel
Bus : 84 / 92 / 93 / 163 / 194 / 165 / PC
Car park : Parc de Champerret

Follow what everybody is posting about the conference using "lesblogs" tag

More than 2000 pictures and hundreds of posts have been already posted since the last edition of Les Blogs. We can all follow what's happening using the "lesblogs" tag using many popular tools (in no particular order):

Blog posts, links and more:
-Technorati tag: lesblogs
-Delicious: les blogs
-Furl: lesblogs
-Feedster: lesblogs
-Pubsub RSS: lesblogs
-Bloglines search: lesblogs
-Google Blog search: lesblogs
-Yahoo Search: lesblogs
-MSN Search: lesblogs

-Icerocket search: lesblogs
-blogpulse: lesblogs

Photo & video:
-photocommons: lesblogs

-Buzznet tag: lesblogs
-Flickr tag: lesblogs

For sure I missed some of them, please suggest in the comments, I'll update this post !
-Loïc

Side event: Sunday night meet-up

There is a self-organizing meet-up on Sunday night, please watch the Site event wiki page if you want to join it. Being still busy organizing the conference, I unfortunately will not be able to join you, see you all tomorrow.

-Loic

Please tag your posts "lesblogs"

To facilitate everybody following what's being posted, I suggest we all tag our posts "lesblogs". Thanks !

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Preparing the conference room and wifi !

The room is now ready for monday morning. All the Les Blogs team has been preparing everything for you, we hope it all runs smoothly...

Wifi
We have more than 6 Mb of download bandwidth and 4 Mb guaranteed upstream spread in the room by about 20 wifi spots managed by a dedicated team at Wavestorm who has been working like crazy to setup everything. Let's cross our fingers and please pay attention to the hotspots plugs when you get in the room, don't unplug their electricity but use free plugs...

Electricity
There should be about 150 plugs for your laptops in the room, I need to buy some more this afternoon, please DON'T unplug the wifi hotspots !

Here are some pictures and a short video (fr/quicktime) of the room. Thanks Rodrigo for giving us a hand and the big surprise you're preparing on Monday !

Use the wiki to meet-up on Sunday and share info

Just to remind you there is a Les Blogs Wiki that many of you already use to meet-up on Sunday evening (self organized) and share information such as who is staying where, etc ! Anybody can edit it, feel free to use it as you wish, it's yours.

Les Blogs posters just arrived

A big party on Monday night but no sunday speaker dinner at Les Blogs 2.0

I hear rumors and I receive emails about this so let me just clarify unlike at Les Blogs 1.0 there will not be any official speaker dinner on Sunday this time for the following reasons:
- we felt bad about inviting only speakers and let the participants out (you know the feeling the next day "have you been to the cool dinner yesterday ?" and you missed it because you were not invited and feel bad about it, right ? So none of that this time
- participants are super important to us, you're all speakers ! We hope the backchannel will work fine for that
-  we wanted to get either everybody in a party like the one on Monday night or nobody
- the total cost of the conference is above 100K€ for two days including 17K€ for good wifi (I kill somebody if it does not work ;-) so unfortunately we don't have the budget for a sunday night dinner with everybody
- thanks to our sponsors we can make all these things happen during monday, monday night and tuesday, isn't it cool already ?
- there are already tens of side events being organized before, during and after the conference, so there will be opportunities to have fun...

So, no official dinner on Sunday, I am not even sure where I will be myself, probably still preparing things and running around with the Les Blogs team.

Have fun, you can always organize your own geek dinner on Sunday night and use the wiki to gather.

And Marc, stop inventing that rumour of a private private close friends of Loic special dinner on Sunday, this is *not* my style, all Les Blogs 2.0 participants are friends, at least I hope :-P

-Loïc