As a sponsor of Cloudcamp Why Aye and Cloudcamp Och Aye I was asked whether we wanted to include something in their respective ungoodie bags when I met up with MrsBoogie and CloudIQ yesterday.
Because these are unconferences (which makes us an unsponsor?!) MrsB said it would be cool if I could come up with something a bit more original than the usual corporate giveaways. So that would be ungiveaways then? I said. (This was just as well, I thought, since we don't have any corporate goodies and have no plans to inflict Cloudsoft® pens, stress balls etc on punters anytime soon.)
So after a great deal of unresearch I've come up with an idea that appeals to me at least: let's make it interesting and put a little red pill in half the ungoodie bags and a little blue pill in the other half and have some fun.
Then attendees have a 50:50 chance of remaining blissfully happy (blue) or having a painful dose of reality (red). I think I've got that the right way round at least according to Wikipedia. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about check out -
According to Morpheus the choice is yours - You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed, and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I've spoken to Red at M&M who in keeping with the philosophy of Cloudcamp unreliably informs me that their sweets have no such effect.
Therefore I'm now on Lexington and 125th waiting for my man with 26 dollars in my hand -
So what is it going to be - the red pill or the blue pill?
You'll have to come to Cloudcamp in Newcastle on March 24 or Edinburgh on March 25 to find out what I've managed to source as ungoodies and to learn about Cloud Computing (or not!).
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