Count me in for the ZeroMQ training too.

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Tim McGilchrist

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On 12/03/2012, at 4:58 PM, Mark Wotton wrote:

> 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
>> 
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