UPDATE: More pictures on my Flickr page

The first and hopefully not last workshop on Web 2.0 is over. Actually, workshop is the wrong word, since it was more a roadshow of web 2.0 related technologies and concepts (including Django). Anyways, I hope the participants enjoyed it as much as I did.

This workshop was held in our family's holiday home in the Swiss mountains. We had great luck with the weather, which was very mild and rather dry. The temperature inside the house was at some chilly 20 degrees C, turning the entrance hall into a cosy conference room (or cinema room at night).

Apart from drinking far too little beer (that will be taken care ...

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