Hi Leonard, Back in November last year I started something called "The Intro" (http://theint.ro), with which we ran a few focused workshops in Melbourne. We've got some plans to get started for 2012 for public workshops in Melbourne and Sydney, and are also doing private workshops for groups of 5 or more.
Otherwise, I know Jason Crane and Ben Webster ran a "Lean UX" workshop (http://leanux.com.au/) today, and they're excellent fellows, so I'd vouch for a repeat of that too. And finally, attending some meetups will give you a fair idea of local upcoming conferences. Cheers, Ben On Monday, March 12, 2012 1:51:31 PM UTC+11, Leonard wrote: > > 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/-/CSlYwTUvNOIJ. 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.
