The past couple of weeks have been a real whirlwind here at CubeSpace, and this week only gives me a bit of a breather before taking off full bore again.

This past weekend was the second BarCamp Portland and once again it was held at CubeSpace. I have not yet fully recovered after having worked an additional 40.5 hours on top of an already full week, but suffice it to say it was once again an experience to behold. There is a kind of energy that comes with BarCamp that we don't see enough of during the rest of the year. It is a combination of tons of people (I love seeing groups and individuals in every nook and cranny of this place) and their collective energy. There are people who are sharing and learning and teaching and brainstorming and sometimes just staring in awe or exhaustion or in thought at the schedule wall. It always serves to remind me why we went into the community-building business.

CubeSpace has been relatively quiet these past few days, and it is hard for me to know how much people are laying low and how much is just adjusting my sense of scale to a post BarCamp existence.

There is talk of groups forming to continue conversations post-BarCamp. Hopefully that will help to keep some of us energized until Portland BarCamp III.