Welcome to the Personal Website of George Michael Huff
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By George Huff
Hello BarCampers, my name is George Huff, but on twitter, my name is georgehuff - nice to meet you. Over the course of this weekend I attended my first Barcamp. Well, actually it was my second, but only on the technicality that I caught the tail end party at SXSW in Austin. This was right before we played Urban Frisbee on the way to another party. Anyhow…
BarCamp is a (geek) conference built like a wiki, we can have a democratic schedule built on the fly. Want to discuss a topic? Any topic at all? Come to BarCamp and paste your topic and name in one of the many timeslots. At first I decided to be a fly on the wall and sort of take it all in, but then I changed my mind and decided to join up with Bram Piyoto and be an “assistant” presenter where design meets tech. Hopefully I come across as being less of a jackass than I really am, here’s to hope.

And then came Sunday, while sitting in on a panel discussing hacking existing Wordpress themes I decided to address a need of how to build a theme from scratch. Because I once wrote a post detailing how to simply build a wordpress theme, I decided to build on the basic idea. But instead of discussing building Eleven3, I discussed my most recent project, HomeSkillet Records. As I did it last minute, I had a little tiny room with about 8 guests, it may have been light, but it sure was a captive audience! You’re sort of forced to listen with numbers that small - but I hope it was useful for people.
Mmmm Brain Power
Anytime a bunch of geeks get together there is a lot of brain power getting kicked around, so that’s pretty awesome. What’s great is the general goodwill everyone has. People are happy to be here and love a chance to have their thoughts and ideas expressed or learn new ones. Traditionally, other conferences are a little bit idol worshippy feeling, which is fine (cause I am so into Shaun Inman and Jon Hicks), but this one is the opposite. There are a few “names” here, but generally speaking everyone here is just here to geek out, prettttty awesome.
I had a blast and met many people who I have seen on Twitter - it’s always good to meet people in real life. I am not a stalker.
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Welcome to the Website of Eleven3. I like to build clean websites, period.
This Is George Huff
He is a web designer / entrepreneur / conspirator / blogger / fianceé living in Portland, Oregon.
When not fully immersed building websites, he runs a record label, writes music, throws a music festival, grows vegetables, but is a carnivore, and happens to be a huge advocate of his friends and family.
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