I think it's a victim of the recession. There are very influential companies that have undergone layoffs lately and frankly, when companies are tightening their belts, education and conferences are one of the first things they don't do.
It's sad, I've spoken at every CFUNITED since 2002 (with the exception of last year). But I don't think it's a matter of passion in the language waning. -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:30 AM To: cf-community Subject: CFUnited Conference - Done Just saw this on the twittersphere. This is that last year for CFUnited. The conference will not happen in 2011. http://bit.ly/beqV4v Sad, so sad. This actually echos something I have been observing in the CF community for the last few years. When I first started doing CF development work in the 90's there was alot of excitement among developers. Alot of passion, and alot of young development. The CF development crowd has ages, has wandered into other interests, and has become significantly less passionate. I'm not talking about competing technologies beating CF, or pricing of CF, or CF's relevance as a technology. What I'm talking about is the community around ColdFusion. The people. For better or worse I see that community becoming less cohesive, less excited. I think this is due to a number of things, including changes in the way Adobe treats it's user community. Change is inevitable, but I would be interested in hearing other people's perceptions. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322290 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
