About two thousand people showed up for the conference at $1500 each. Most were from America but a few came from far afield: Asia, Latin America, Germany, Croatia, Israel. There were two guys who had been to every one of the ten annual conferences held.

Recruiters often call me and ask me if I can tell them the name of other software configuration managers but I come up empty. We don't run in packs like developers do. We are solitary animals, like bears. Usually, I'm the only SCM guy in the shop. However, here at the conference I saw an acre of SCM people. They looked like a pretty geeky bunch, with only a couple cute girls in the lot.