Hi all, It was really great at DevNexus last week:
1. DevNexus donated a Silver Sponsorship to NetBeans, in support of our move to Apache. Thanks again DevNexus! 2. As a result of the above, we had a booth, where we were able to engage with a lot of NetBeans users. Most people stopping by the booth clearly had not heard about the Apache move at all. Many of them were NetBeans users and happy with it, others had been NetBeans users in the past, pretty much everyone had some concept of NetBeans. We must have spoken to a few hundred people in total by the end. 3. Graeme Ingleby (from Delta) and Wade Chandler spent a lot of time at the booth (it was the first time in 8 years or so that Wade and I met up), as well as Ivar Grimstad and Reza Rahman, who were also in attendance at the conference, while Kirk Pepperdine was also there, as well as other well known NetBeans enthusiasts in the speaker community. It was a great event and clearly having a clear presence via a booth makes a very big difference in terms of visibility. Gj On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Next week at DevNexus in Atlanta, there'll be quite a few NetBeans folks > in attendance. > > In support of our Apache transition, DevNexus have given us a Silver > sponsorship, which means we have a booth for free. Thanks DevNexus! > > I'll be bringing all the NetBeans t-shirts I have lying around as well as > all the NetBeans-related books I own, to populate the booth with > interesting artifacts. > > Amongst others, from the NetBeans community, Wade and some of his > colleagues, Kirk Pepperdine, and Ivar Grimstad will be around too. If > anyone else is planning to attend, let us know and/or stop by the booth! > > As soon as we're a top level project at Apache, we need Apache NetBeans > banners and so on -- looking forward to that a lot! > > Gj > > >
