Intel China's Modding Expo

I like the vacation photos. Usually tourist pics are of 'the wife in front of (____)'. Give a group of craftsmen who are total strangers cameras and you get awesome results. Lots of detail photos!

Originally Posted by Da Dego
...The event was very formal, but to me the trip turned out to be all about the comradery of modders - not about top-down coverage. So I felt this style might be more appropriate...

That's the way I read it (we went, we showed off what you guys have already seen, we ...) and that worked fine for me. ;)

I'm curious: Did the disappointed posters here expect full work logs or great amounts of details about all the mods there?

Nice work guys, I expect the informal writing style might not be to the taste of all but I think it conveys the real mood of the trip. After all this was a showcase of some of the best modding of the world, demonstrated by the modders themselves, not fully fledged journalists. If we reported it too formally the team spirit and group feeling may have been lost.

Next time I'd love to go, should really get those planned mods started...

How are the mods being transported overseas? Via the airline? Or some 3rd party shipping company like fedex?

edit: oh yea, Really liked the article, looked like it was a lot of fun! I wouldve killed to have been there. Only problem is a little disease I have called celiac disease . Means I can't eat anything with gluten (gluten is found in wheat, barley, rye and other grains) and it just so happens soy sauce has gluten in it, so I would've had a hell of a time finding food to eat.

Originally Posted by legoman666
How are the mods being transported overseas? Via the airline? Or some 3rd party shipping company like fedex?...

I'm blaming UPS (Uncaring Package Smashers :p ). They destroyed a bunch of stuff I shipped home & I never did get all the insurance coverage I paid extra for.

OK, probably wasn't them (this time) but..

Quite a trip ;) Having some images clickable wouldn't hurt though ;)

somewhat OT: This picture bears a striking resemblance to this :)

:( I want to join things like this .. with my case when I do it ..

but well done and very damm nice and I'm happy to see you guys there :D

yeah keep this work up

Looked like a great trip. Wish I could've made it, but thems the breaks I guess. I'm wondering how WMD would've fared with the shipping - the damage the mods suffered must've been upsetting, I was upset just looking at the pictures. Glad you guys still had a great time :)

I liked the informal writing; a great modding adventure story. The media circus sounded hectic!

lucky boys !!

nice article, seems a bit long though.
I like your forbidden city shots.

So they replaced the Mao portrait...after someone tried to burn it !

http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/intel_china_modding_expo/orz4.jpg
^^Intel ready to take it in the buttske from AMD.

After seeing those shipping disasters, anyone want to start a mod-shipping company with me? We will fly mods to and from anywhere with a landing strip in a padded case on our laps. :D

Its an idea anyway

Nice story and photographs!

Sorry if I missed it but who determined the Modder selection? Not that I would change much... Was it Bit-tech staff or the convention committee? Either way what an incredible honor to be selected!

Originally Posted by SlappKnutts
Sorry if I missed it but who determined the Modder selection? Not that I would change much... Was it Bit-tech staff or the convention committee? Either way what an incredible honor to be selected!

Geoff and Brett did the selecting ;)

glad you guys had fun, it really sucked about the shipping mishap

Originally Posted by The_Beast
glad you guys had fun, it really sucked about the shipping mishap

Oh its not over, they still haven't come back. There's plenty of time for Sangaku to get further busted up.

well I hope it gets to you unharmed or in repairable condition

ahhhh i should've headed up north to attend the expo :(, i live only a couple hours south. Shanghai!! haha ^^, great place i must say. love it in fact.

And i'm planning to begin my project logs in the coming months as I only have one exam between now and then... which is on monday.

My to do list: purchase all the necessary stuff before i begin! But the pity side of things... i'm a student and hence I lack any financial support. No sponsorship :(... dont' know how to get anyways <<< maybe have to build reputation first. Parents gonna be stingy on how much to give me >_<

Couple of hours? It's a 14 hour train ride from Shanghai to Beijing :|

haha ;) fly fly fly!~!!!

would we be seeing an expo like this in china ever again? cause i would be really interested!

No sponsorship ... dont' know how to get anyways <<< maybe have to build reputation first.

That's something I'd like to know as well: how do you get sponsorship?


H.B.

You get sponsored by building up a reputation as a great modder who can deliver projects to time and budget. Being featured on the front pages of modding sites like Bit-Tech really help.

haha, yea thought so. Its a process. I kind of hope this even is some annual thing, then i would be excited. Not just that, it better be at a good time... May is the month of my horrid exams. Well atleast the first half of it. After those entrenching exams next year, I will be FREEEEEE, a 9 month gap.

I doubt this will be a yearly thing as it was an event to bring Intel into the Chinese market. It also must have cost them a fortune to do everything. I think some part of the event is still going on though if i'm not mistaken.

well as far as i'm concerned, Intel plays a rather big role in the Chinese computing industry. There core 2 duos are outrageously popular, specifically the e6300 and e6600. And yea, i agree, it must have cost them a load of money to get that kind of event rolling.

What I am hoping is that other countries follow suit and do a similar event. Modding is pretty worldwide anyway so it would make it even more so. That and then I'd get to see more countries form free (i hope) :D . It still wouldn't be as cool as the first time though.