TranslateThe Spiceworks 1 million party last night
The Spiceworks 1million user party last night looked like a great event, there were just over 350 people at the peak on the stream and some great interviews with the Spiceworks employee’s and SpiceHeads including Scott Alan Miller, Ben Harned, Andy Phelps, Lawrie Dalman and David Scammell.
5 people got “beamed in” (Jen’s name for it) using Skype which was a new experience for me and for Spiceworks, it worked really well though and was a great way of getting some SpiceHeads and even a couple of SpiceCorps involved from around the world.
We also managed to see what appears to be the first public sighting off the 6 foot SpiceRex model. Which for me and I believe a lot of people was a shock, you you also look closely at Lawrie’s webcam (above) you can see SpiceRex sitting on a tree covered in peppers behind him (it is also his current picture on the community). From a photo contest to having a 6ft model made up SpiceRex really has become a big hit with the community and Spiceworks employees, wonder what will be next? There was a sighting off a SpiceRex t-shirt which looks good.
There were of course some other interviews with people who were at the party like Chief Spice, Jay, Benhar, Nic and SAM. The in person interviews were a great chance to see what the people behind the avatar really look and sound like as well as getting an insight into when they started using Spiceworks, what they enjoy about it and more.
Of course as always there were some funny moments, like when the people on the IRC chat room were trying to get me to laugh while on Skype or when someone made bunny ears behind Jen while she was talking. A bit later on we also made a friend in a balloon and had some Spiceworks employees jumping up and down in front of the camera.
There were some people taking photo’s including one of some SpiceHeads and Employees holding the SpiceRex, we expect these will be published up on the Spiceworks Flickr account.
If you were on the IRC chat room I did say I was recording it to allow you to watch it later but my recording application decided it didn’t like having a 3.5gb AVI, I’m trying to repair the AVI but Spiceworks have said they were going to try and record it as well so hopefully you will be able to watch it back soon.
Again congratulations Spiceworks for reaching 1 million and can’t wait for the 2 million party! But we need a open microphone and more more integration with the online viewers next time 
Great article. I had a blast last night meeting all the spiceheads and spice employees. Wait, don't we have a name for them yet? It was cool to see all the spiceheads that was beamed in as well. I took a picture with SpiceRex which will be my new avatar if I can find who took it. I'm sure it will surface with all the rest of the pics.
June 12th, 2010 at 11:44 amWere working on a name looks like it will be SpiceLords ( http://community.spiceworks.com/spice_list/show/1… ) not sure how long we will have to wait for the official word if they will go with SpiceLords
Can't wait to see the rest of the pics, looks like there should be some good ones.
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