Gearing Up For FullCodePress 2009

I’ve just finished packing my bags to fly to Sydney for tomorrow’s FullCodePress event, and it’s pretty exciting.

Australia takes on New Zealand in the build-a-website-in-a-day competition, as part of the CeBIT conference at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre (if you’re in Sydney, come along and watch—you can get in for free using the fcpcebit09 registration code).

I’m not involved in judging or anything this year, but will be one of the volunteers who is running around taking photos, writing blog posts, conducting video interviews with team members, sabotaging the Kiwi’s internet connection and generally wreaking havoc. I’m taking my sleeping bag, as we’ll be locked in the conference hall from 6pm tomorrow night (hopefully with pizza).

Yes folks, it’s about as geeky as it gets. Here’s the proof:

I have the responsibility tomorrow of carrying the official Champion’s Trophy on the plane and to the event. It’s a sizeable, diamond-shaped glass sculpture that has every chance of being confiscated by airport security for too closely resembling a weapon.

If for some reason I don’t make it to the event, you might be able to hear my cries from the deepest, darkest interrogation room at the airport … “Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!”

posted: 12.05. 2009, 00:10 (0)