Reboot is starting to feel like a long time ago (especially after 5 weeks spent in San Francisco), but we still owe you a third and final posting about this great conference (see Reboot Part I and Part II if you’ve missed them).
So, what are we serving you today? A peek at the hundred dollar laptop, the Blubber Bots, the Wii-enabled crèche, and more insight on what makes the atmosphere of Reboot uniquely bub.blicio.us. Ready? Here we go.
After quietly geeking away in the lounge during breakfast on the second morning, people assembled in the main hall for the start of the day. They were joined by a couple of Blubber Bots.
As you will no doubt notice by looking at the photographs, these Autonomous Light Air Vessels are bub.blicio.us both in their conception and their appearance.
A closer view of a Blubber Bot, presented by Jed Berk, father of all the Blubber Bots.
Blubber Bots are friendly beings attracted by light and cellphone waves.
They like to play, sing a bit like whales do, and even showed an interest in participating actively in the conference.
Blubber Bot waiting to speak.
Blubber Bot on stage.
Unfortunately, there were some technical issues (mainly linguistic) which cut short the speech of the Blubber Bot. Next year, maybe?
A friendly Blubber Bot, keeping Reboot organizer Thomas Madsen-Mygdal cosy company.
Sometimes, even a Blubber Bot needs some grounding.
For our readers who might have taken a liking to these strange creatures, you can even help this species breed by adopting a Blubber Bot.
Later on that same morning, an unexpected frenzy seized the attendees waiting in the main hall.
Opera’s Håkon Wium Lie had brought the oft-heard-about, seldom-seen $100 laptop into the room.
Laptop is a tablet too!
Everybody wanted to lay their hands on it, or at least snap a pic.
Yours truly managed to do both 
Time now to dive a little into Reboot’s unique atmosphere — an exciting blend of high-tech people and gadgets, with a very informal un-conference style of organisation. And it works! over 500 people, and the wifi was up almost all the time.
Let’s start with the pre-conference drinks, a gathering of speakers and participants alike in the very green Kongens Have Park.
[Photo credit (above): Alberto Romero]
The drinks themselves.
The venue was the huge Kedehallen, complete with lawn, cafeteria-style lounge, and enough rooms to host upto six concurrent sessions.
The venue, Kedelhallen
A few shots of the atmosphere on the lawn:
[Photo Credit (above): Michael Bumann]
The lounge (note the big screen — there are more in other parts of the lounge).
Geeking out in the lounge.
The lo-fi version of the program. Note the empty spaces for extra, impromptu sessions.
Some sessions were scheduled to take place in strange locations:
Before moving out onto the lawn, thanks to the great weather.
[Photo credit (above): Julian Bleecker]
Others simply thought the lawn was a great spot:
[Photo credit (above): Florian Krakau]
[Photo credit (above): Jonathan Marks]
And some decided to remain in the strange places.
[Photo credit (above): Guy Dickinson]
The main hall, which is large enough to seat all the attendees, converted into a gigantic dining hall during the first evening.
[Photo credit (above): Jonathan Marks]
All these geeks require wifi, of course, power, and various other gadgets:
[Photo credit (above): Jonathan Marks]
[Photo credit (above): Alberto Romero]
Power cord snakes.
[Photo credit (above): Björn Ognibeni]
Power cord snake nest. Beware!
[Photo credit (above): Alper Çu?un / http://alper.nl/]
Big-ass monitors for Jaiku and Plazes, two sponsors of the event.
[Photo credit (above): Ralf G.]
But it’s not just about technology. “Human?” was the theme of this year’s Reboot, and a lot of the focus of the talks and the event was on the intersection of humanity and technology.
So, at Reboot, there was room for technology, and for being human too. For example, we know that no human can resist cupcakes, so we had some of those:
[Photo credit (above): Ton Zijlstra]
We also know that getting people to sign up for a dinner location is easier if done low-tech (a bunch of reservations had been made by the organisers, and large sheets of paper indicating name of the restaurant and number of people it could seat were put up in the hall):
[Photo credit (above): Mark Wubben]
The usual conference gear was provided, without going overboard.
[Photo credit (above): Florian Krakau]
People made good use of the Reboot notebook.
[Photo credit (above): Thomas Purves]
[Photo credit (above): Gunnar Langemark]
[Photo credit (above): Esben Fjord]
Special mention for the T-shirts, which were customisable.
[Photo credit (above): Alberto Romero]
[Photo credit (above): Olivier Crochat]
Of course, no conference would be completely bub.blicio.us without a noisy and dancy closing party.
Now, before I close this really long post (I’m expecting to get in trouble for it) I’d like to draw your attention to one particular aspect of Reboot9, which, you’ll have understood, is an absolutely great event to take part in. (Reboot9 was sold out, so if you’re planning on going to Reboot10, keep your eyes peeled and buy tickets early.)
[Photo credit (above): Charles Nouÿrit]
Babysitting?
[Photo credit (above): Charles Nouÿrit]
Indeed!
[Photo credit (above): Lilia Efimova]
As you can see, the crèche is also designed to keep the older kids happy.
I’ll leave you with a series of photographs of kids at Reboot, proof that an event can be both bub.blicio.us and kid-friendly. If you’ve payed attention to Part I and Part II of our Reboot9 series, you’ll probably be able to recognise some of the proud parents, too.
[Photo credit (above): Bernie Goldbach]
[Photo credit (above): Ton Zijlstra]
[Photo credit (above): Alvaro Ortiz]
[Photo credit (above): Mark Wubben]
[Photo credit (above): Thomas Purves]
[Photo credit (above): Dannie Jost]
[Photo credit (above): Ludita]
[Photo credit (above): Andreas Johannsen]
[Photo credit (above): Thomas Purves]
[Photo credit (above): Guido van Nispen]
[Photo credit (above): Mark Wubben]
[Photo credit (above): Alper Çu?un / http://alper.nl/]
[Photo credit (above): Gunnar Langemark]
[Photo credit (above): Ton Zijlstra]
[Photo credit (above): Lilia Efimova]
[Photo credit (above): Florian Krakau]
[Photo credit (above): Tim Duckett]
[Photo credit (above): Martin Kuipers]
There, we hope you liked our first series covering bub.blicio.us Europe!
More Reboot9 photos on Flickr.
The Reboot Conference website.
Photo credit: Stephanie Booth, unless otherwise indicated (below the photo). Photos used were CC-licensed, or if indicated otherwise permission to reproduce them in this context was kindly given.