Hi Leonard, In terms of conferences YOW would probably be the pre-eminent developer conference, prices and details can be found here: http://www.yowconference.com.au/
I have heard talk recently of someone putting together an Australian Ruby conf. Perhaps they will post details here on whether that is likely to get up this year and if so when/how much. If your team is using agile then the Agile Australis conference on in May, pricing and details here: http://www.agileaustralia.com.au/ Cheers, Adam Boas On 12/03/2012, at 2:17 PM, Ben Schwarz wrote: > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. 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.
