Scalathon
As a part of JetBrains Scala team I had a chance to visit Scalathon 2011 to represent our project – Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
An initial projector malfunction made me a little bit nervous about speaking without my thoroughly prepared slides, however, everything was resolved and my presentation seemed to went fine.
In addition to project presentations we had two days for hacking Scala code. It was a pleasure to see so many projects and so much involvement. These people are really passionate about what they do!
As turned out (surprise), many programmers were using IDEA with the Scala plugin as their primary development environment. Usually I encounter only “virtual” plugin users, but there I had a chance to provide a truly personal support. I was both proud of our work and ashamed of whatever bug it may have 
Right before the Scalathon I had been evaluating ScalaCL compiler plugin for use in our project, so I was really glad to meet Olivier Chafik there in person. Our talk shed light on many tricky parts of ScalaCL implementation.
Being among all those people form mailing lists, tweets, blogs, forums and even books makes you feel a part of community (and Scala community is an amazing community to be part of). I would like to thank all the organizers for their great work!
Here are some photos of the Philadelphia, Scalathon, ENIAC and me.
