ditto! But I'd like to see some brainstorming on concrete steps we might take to do this. Some ideas off the top of my head: -regular hackfests of applications for donation to cities, states and government in general (Open Source for the "Civic Stack") -Ready2Run CFML installs bundled with educational currucula and a learning demo site targeted at high school computer science students -obviously more conferences like OpenCFSummit - perhaps regional breakout conferences -more outreach to government. Im at a conference right now at state dept on open source software and someone just said: "This conflict between Open Source and Commercial software is a red herring. It's not about Open Source versus Commercial at all. It's just about reminding IT managers of their obligation to taxpayers to allow the two to compete on a level playing field." And I know there are very few managers of CF shops in government that are aware there are alternatives to the Adobe ColdFusion engine. -a killer app to really bring attention to the language (I think Im going to grab a pecha kucha session to pitch one :)
But mostly I'm coming to hang with the smartest people I know. Oh also wanted to point out there are now 8 really inspiring speaker interviews: http://blog.opencfsummit.org/tag/speakers And the proposals and topic suggestions should give you a good idea of what people want to talk about: http://engage.opencfsummit.org/index.cfm/proposals/ http://engage.opencfsummit.org/index.cfm/topicSuggestions/ And everyone should be thinking about things they'd like to talk about in the unconferences and pecha kucha sessions! -Jason On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, James Milbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan, > > Interested in how we change the perceptions of CFML as a > framework/language. Fighting the perception that "Ruby on Rails" and > "PHP" are the new "standards". > > \jm > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Alan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We are now down to just a matter of days till the big event in Texas. >> >> I was interested to know who would be attending and what you are looking >> to get out of it >> >> (i know Matt/Peter/Jeff/Sean will be >> there at least and their reasons!) >> >> >> -- >> aw2.0 >> http://www.aw20.co.uk/ >> >> -- >> tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ >> mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en >> >> Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/ >> > > -- > tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/ > -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/
