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attendees have said about "Dolby has found Project Bar-B-Q to be one of the most valuable conferences available for the digital audio industry. Bar-B-Q is a place where leading visionaries meet, share ideas, and truly guide the future of audio on computers. Only those that attend can truly comprehend the full benefit of what transpires here."
"There is nothing like Project Bar-B-Q in our industry, probably in ANY industry. It is the most intense brainstorming session you can imagine, done with the most creative and influential minds in the business, fueled by great hospitality and a great location."
"At other conferences, you get laboriously prepared PowerPoint for 55 minutes of every hour, with a chance to ask a question or two at the end. At Project Bar-B-Q you get to make your own agenda, solving common problems and issues with others in your food chain, including your competitors. This just doesn't exist anywhere else!"
"Forget all the industry trade shows and conferences – if you want to find everyone you need to know in PC Audio, look for them in Texas every October at Project BBQ. There’s no way you can put a $$ value on an opportunity like BBQ to influence change in audio hardware and software. I owe The Fat Man a huge debt of gratitude for telling me about BBQ three years ago – and I've gone every year since."
"I first came along to Project Bar-B-Q as a naïve youngster in 2002 at the urging of my colleagues at Dolby Labs, and I must say I was very skeptical about it. Within 10 minutes of arriving, however, I begun to realize that something important was going on. Since then I have attended two more times and loved it, and I see it as an essential part of my year now, a chance to reflect on the state of the audio industry and my part in it. I really think the quality of my work has lifted as a result of attending Bar-B-Q, because I constantly try to imagine what the giant brain would think about it."
"You will have an incredibly good time, meet amazing people, get lovingly dunked in the creative process, learn a few very important things, one or two at least about yourself, and come back home in an unusually good mood that lasts for weeks."
"Simply the best think tank I have ever seen. Very efficiently organized, the BBQ gatherings allow you to brainstorm with some of the best specialists in the music, game and computer industries in a relaxed ambiance. No doubt that Project BBQ has had influence in the past and will still have in the future on the decision process of many projects in big or small companies which had a chance to review their recommendations."
"One of my most memorable experiences in my time in the industry happened at Project BBQ in the form of a very constructive discussion with fellow peers, in a very relaxed outside environment."
"If you are interested in the future of computer audio and want to help shape it, BBQ is the place to be. This environment fosters a freedom to think, dream, question, and collaborate with an incredible group of folks from all areas of the computer audio/music field. BBQ is a truly unique and important event for our respective industries, our companies, and for each of us individually. You leave BBQ ready to change the world... and after a few days of mental recovery, the amazing group of attendees each year typically set off and do just that."
"BBQ is the place to go to look at the future of computer audio. It's also the place to go to network in this business."
"When the Fat Man first blipped my radar almost 15 years ago, I thought "Who's the clown in the cowboy hat?" but now that I've hung out with the man and seen him in action, I realize that George Sanger is by far the wisest man I know Amazing, magical things always happen whenever he's around, and one of the most amazing things is always Project Bar-B-Q. Nowhere else in the competitive world of music and computers will you find 50 of the coolest people you'd ever hope to meet coming together in the spirit of community, harmony and progress ... and afterwards, we few, we happy few, we band of Bar-B-Q brothers, share a bond of trust and admiration that is rarely seen in any industry. May BBQ rule for another 10 years!"
"My two experiences (so far) at BBQ were incredible. It is one of the only places I know of where you can converge with some of the greatest minds in the industry and work together toward the common goal of influencing the very nature of our business. It is a place where you can be talking about an audio codec only to find out you are talking to the guy that wrote it. It is a place where you come face-to-face with people who are already in your life through the tools you use every day. And now you get the chance to make it all better. I found the format to be completely unconventional and absolutely effective. There is no status, no stupid question, no wrong answer and none of the distractions that can often limit productivity in our day-to-day lives. George has created a unique style of think tank that you simply can only benefit from. You leave your business cards and trade show badges behind, you shed your title, you shed your motives and for three days you focus on having a good time, working together as friends and getting back to the very reason you wound up in this industry in the first place. Quite simply, at BBQ, we make a difference."
"I strongly recommend you DO NOT ATTEND THIS CONFERENCE unless
"Project BBQ is an amazing collection of developers, product managers, artists, movers and shakers that come together for a single purpose: to improve gaming audio. It's an incredible sight to see competitors hashing out standards, geeks talking about marketing concepts and a chaotic industry working out logical solutions to difficult problems. Attendees come out with a head full of ideas, a briefcase full of contacts and an amazing respect for the work that George, Linda and Teresa provide to make this happen."
"BBQ, to me, has always been a haven filled with non-partisan, humanistic audio philosophy and development. It’s a place where dedicated people, invested and concerned about the future of audio in the technology industry, get together to discuss, speculate, bitch, moan, cry, cheer, and formulate nefarious plans to “make audio better.” One of the more beautiful things I see at BBQ is looking around the table in a session filled with fierce competitors, and seeing them all dream the same dream and work together to come up with ways that they can all make that dream a reality. For all of them. It shows that, business reality aside, we are all on the same side, and we all like to play with the same toys. BBQ gives you a perspective that you just can’t get anywhere else. You get a concentrated ooze made up of the biggest and brightest, the most dedicated and most passionate minds in our business – and each perspective has an effect on each OTHER perspective. When you leave BBQ, you are much wiser than when you went in. You see the world more clearly, and are able to attack your own specific issues with a fulfilling sense of wisdom and understanding about your place in the audio universe."
"Project Bar-B-Q is the most intensely creative and useful technology industry conference I've ever attended."
"Where else can you find 50 of the top people in the industry, from games, hardware, mobile devices, MI companies, etc., all in the same place and bound by the BBQ "code of secrecy", and all willing to chat with you over a beer about what they're doing, what you're doing, and how they might fit together? Nowhere! Highly recommended."
"In addition to allowing the participants to decide the topics and make the agenda, Project Bar-B-Q encourages participation beyond the conference. I have not been involved in any other conference that attracts so many people dedicated to making a positive impact on an industry and willing to demonstrate that day after day. The community that is created by Bar-B-Q lasts long after the weekend is over."
"BBQ was excellent. 50 sharp industry people, enough structure to make it work, good food and jam sessions. What else could you ask for?"
"Project BBQ has spawned some of the greatest things in computer / game audio. G.A.N.G. was one of them, IXMF was another one. The list goes on and on. Without BBQ the industry would be pretty stale and lacking in truly great forum discussion. Is talking on a forum online or an email list even close to sitting around a campfire, sitting on an overlook watching lightning flicker on the vast Texas horizon, or eating a gourmet dinner with colleagues? No way. Genuinely great ideas spawn there, which is why I'm itching to go back for another year."
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