testing the waters - I've been chatting to OJ Reeves about possibly organising for Pieter Hintjens of ZeroMQ to do some training in Sydney. I know it's a bit niche for rubyists, but would anyone be interested nonetheless?
http://zguide.zeromq.org/ for more info - some of the best written and most entertaining tech documentation I've ever read, as well as some of the clearest C. mark On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Adam Boas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- A UNIX signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who. -- Chris Maeda -- 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.
