Developers
It started like every other developer conference I'd been to - lots of geeks, talking technology, surprises when putting faces to names, meeting the legends in the flesh after reading each other's posts on mailing lists and websites etc. Then there was Carol, and everything changed. Carol was a web developer. She was brilliant, exceedingly smart at what she does. I knew she was a wild child based on some of the comments she made in her posts, so it didn't take long to put a face to that...