That was my first DevCon. I still have the hat from the party.

>We had a devcon in Scottsdale one year and it was very chilly. (That was the year one of the session rooms was a circus tent.)
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>At one of the (outside) evening events, one of the bartenders was cheerfully handing cold beer bottles to people with chattering teeth and saying "Yeah, but it's a DRY cold". ;-)