bliki tagged by: conferences
Agile2010
Last week I attended the Agile 2010 conference in Orlando. Agile 20xx is the major US agile-oriented conference whose roots go back to XP Universe and the Agile Development Conference. I've not been a regular attender of the main agile conferences, but I did go last year as well. Rather than make an attempt at a consolidated description, here are a few scattered impressions.
16 August 2010
AltNetConf
Last weekend I attended the Alt.NET conference. It was the first named gathering of a group of people I've been watching on the blogosphere for quite a long time. A group of long-time users of Microsoft technologies who feel that their development philosophy has been getting out of sync with the perceived orthodoxy from Redmond. While some have considered moving away this group is keen to stay and try to influence the Microsoft world.
9 October 2007
OOPSLA2004
I've been attending OOPSLA for over a decade. It's become the place where I catch up with lots of friends and find out what they've been doing lately, and try to get a sense of where the OO community is going.
3 November 2004
OpenSpace
Open Space is an approach to help you put together
self-organizing conferences. I was first introduced to it by Norm
Kerth in 1997 and have since seen it used, and used it myself, many
times. It seems to work well in small scales, groups of a dozen or
two people, and at larger scales of one or two hundred. I've seen it
for periods of one to three days. I'll describe it
with variations I have seen: Crested Butte is a small annual workshop of
around 20 people, Agile Universe 2002 had about 100 or so at the
conference with Open Space in one track (they've continued to do
this since, but I've not been able to get there), foocamp did this
with a couple of hundred people. The technique was developed by
Harrison Owen and is well described in his book
24 August 2005
AgileAustralia2010
Scattered impressions from my recent trip to Australia for the Agile Australia conference.
27 September 2010
JAOO2005
This is an embarrassingly brief report of what has turned into my favorite conference. Sadly a clash with other business meant that I could only spend a day in Aarhus. JAOO continues to be a great conference, although I'm hard put to say why. Somehow it manages to retain the feel of a small conference while staying fresh and broad.
24 October 2005
OOPSLA2005
OOPSLA again, lots of conference and all sorts of ideas. It's impossible to do a proper write-up of this conference - there's too much for any one human to attend, let alone take in. So these are scattered thoughts.
24 October 2005
RailsConf2007
I don't go to as many conferences as I used to, but the advantage of that is that I have time to go to ones that take my fancy. I've long had a particular fondness for the Ruby community, so I turned up as an attendee at this year's RailsConf.
22 May 2007