I would also reccomend Agile Vancouver. I went in 2009 and pretty much all the talks and tutorials I went to were high quality (Ade actually gave a talk that year), and there was ample time for socializing, even with the speakers, and they also had an open spaces session the last day (a DDD session with Eric Evans... FTW?) Ronald was there as well taking lots of pictures IIRC.
I went to QCon this las year (first week in November) and it was great, I would go again if it didn't always conflict with other conferences that I want to go to... On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Ade Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I can totally recommend DevSum (Stockholm) and OreDev (Malmo). I flew there > for about $1000 return but Sweden isn’t a cheap place to stay by any means so > getting > there is probably only half the cost. > > I also thought the Vancouver Agile Conference was another good local option. > > My personal bias is for smaller conferences. If the attendees run to anything > like four digits it’s probably too big. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chris Bilson > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: RE: Interesting 2011 Software Conferences > > > Sorry for chiming in late, but I'd like to see what people think of the > following list. It would be kind of nice to know if anyone from our group is > going to any of these conferences > so we could say hi, or whatever. > > > > > > * Code Mash - but I just looked, it's sold out, and it's in like 2 weeks. x > > > > > > * The O'Reilly Strata conference: it's about working with big data. I think > this is kind of a wild card. I suspect most of the people there would be > java and hadoop people, but it's definitely a direction our business is > heading. I would go, but I don't think our team or my career will be that > deeply involved in big data for a little > while. It's definitely something I am very interested in personally, though. > > > > > > * Mix 11: It seems to be one of the better microsoft conferences. It's > in Vegas! > > > > > > * Strange Loop: One of my co-workers (Justin) went this year. I really wish I > would > have gone, but I had just started working at Milliman a couple of weeks > before so it would have been pretty tight. This is also a little bit more of > a wild card conference. > > > > > > * QCon: I went two years ago and really got a lot out of it. They haven't > announced a date > for their SF 2011 conference, but I think it's usually in November. > > > > > > * One of those conferences in Norway or Malmo. > Those look like they are really good. I know how to travel cheap - I bet I > could get from here to Norway and back cheaper than someone else going to > Portland. > > > > > > * One of the classic conferences: an OOPSLA, a big Agile conference. I don't > know that I would get more out of this than I do watching their videos or > reading whitepapers, > though. I am more interested in meeting people at conferences. > > > > > > * Already mentioned local events: Open Agile NW, Portland / Seattle / Boise > code camps, > ALT.NET Seattle, etc. I will go to as many of these as I can. > > > > > > Notice I said "wildcard" in some of my descriptions: I think these are the > best conferences to go to. You get more engaged, learn a lot more, and make > bigger changes in your > thinking at conferences that push back than going to talk about something > you already know a lot about. > > > > > > A lot of the conferences above post videos on line. I would definitely watch > some before committing, to make sure I knew what I was in for. > > > > > > Other than that, I've got nothing. I usually have more information on this > kind of stuff, and I feel kind of weird. Any one else have any other big > conferences they are looking > at? > > > > > > > > --c > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
