onAIR Tour : Half Way Point Of North American Bus Tour
Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog.
Last night we were in Cincinnati, which was the half way point of the North American portion of the bus tour. The event went really well, and we had a really good turnout (had to bring in some more seating). It was held in an old church and the only issue that we ran into was that the microphone system kept going down because we kept blowing fuses (I guess the church’s wiring system wasn’t made to handle 60 laptops being plugged in at once).
Some of the highlights of the tour thus far:
- The strong turnout of JavaScript developers at the event (around 50%).
- Seeing Alan Queen’s audio mixing application in Atlanta (it is SWEET!).
- Lee Brimelow finishing off a triple cheeseburger from Burger King and living to tell about it.
- Stopping in the New Mexico desert at 3:30 in the morning to look at the stars.
- Making it through record high heat in Vancouver while presenting on the roof of a pub.
- Taping Ted Patrick and Kevin Hoyt into the back of the bus with duck tape on the 24 hour bus ride from LA to Dallas.
- Discovering that Ryan Stewart had bought and was wearing a pair of shoes that did not match.
- Watching Lee Brimelow’s session over two weeks as each night he had a completely new example / application to show off.
- Having homeland security stopping us from taking the bus down to the hoover damn, and ending up taking a helicopter tour instead.
- And of course, hanging out and having a few beers with all of the developers we have met at the events across the country.
Being half way done with North America means that we still have half of the events to go. We are heading into Pittsburgh for an event tonight, and it looks like it is going to be a pretty big crowd. You can find a list of the rest of the cities on the North American tour, as well as information on how to register on the bus tour schedule page.
You can view all of the photos from the first leg of the tour in the bus tour Flickr group.
You can see all of the videos from the first leg of the tour here and here and here.
View blog posts about the tour.
