I work for a corporation which means that we generally need to finalise training budgets for 2012 early in the year (in my case by the end of March). I'd like to be able to suggest that my team get budget approval to attend primarily web-focused conferences or workshops during the year. While it might be tempting to say: "I'd like to attend 3 conferences this year with ticket prices ranging from 500 - 1000" I actually need to be able to point at specific events I'd like to attend.
I have two main problems though: 1. I don't know what conferences are on. 2. I don't know how much (even approximately) they cost. Currently my approach is to see what was on last year and guess that there will be similar events being held this year. For instance Web Directions have already announced Melbourne for May and Sydney for October and I can assume that the ticket prices will be about the same. Does anyone have any better ideas on how to get good technical training for me (and my team)? I'd love to encourage my team to learn modern programming practices and the time spent together at these sort of events is also beneficial from a team building perspective. If anyone has a simple page that says what's on, where and how much that would be a huge help too. If anyone on the list organises private workshops I'd be interested to hear about them. I could more easily sell an event focused on more generic topics like UI/UX, Data analysis or security rather than specific topics like Ruby on Rails (as my team mostly isn't ruby focused). Obviously if anyone has any better advice on forums to post this in then I'm happy to learn that too. As a general comment to people organising conferences or workshops. If most corporations are like mine then getting pricing and dates out early in the year means we can nail down budget approval. If the event is announced even as late as June it can be a real hassle juggling budget around to get approval. Regards, Leonard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/4zOJhr2U5bkJ. 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
