Re: Best conference?

2010-07-16 Thread Judith Dinowitz
And here's the interview we did with Sid Maestre and Luke Kilpatrick, who organized that San Francisco CFDevcamp. http://www.fusionauthority.com/community/4786-unleashing-the-developer-at-coldfusion-devcamp.htm Judith >What do conferences and real estate have in common? Location, location, >loc

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-15 Thread Adrocknaphobia
developers. Adobe has budget to support these local one-day free-form events if you are interested in organizing one. You can read more about the one in SF here: http://www.cfdevcamp.org/page.cfm/about-cfdevcamp -Adam On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Mike Chabot wrote: > > The best confer

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Chabot
The best conference I have been to is Microsoft Tech-Ed North America. It is widely considered to be one of the best technology conferences in the world. For many people it is the one conference they go to in a year. I often ask people what they think the best technology conferences are and the

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Eric Roberts wrote: > Would it help if they moved the conference around?  I think having it in the > same location really limits it as many folk who can't afford to travel would > probably jump at the chance to go if it was local It's a tricky issue... Wherever

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Andy Allan
When the shit hit the fan in 2008, it was right after our biggest SotR to date. But we made a 5 year plan: 2009: we would take the conference on tour across the UK and Europe as a series of one day events to keep delegate and sponsor costs low. 2010: do a 2 day conference at a real low cost

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Clarke
Thanks again for the conference ideas. For those who missed the link off the HoF home page, http://www.fusionauthority.com/news/4812-the-inside-scoop-on-cfunited.htm does a good job of explaining why CFUnited was cancelled. - Andrew. On 2010-07-14, at 13:24, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Would it

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Adrocknaphobia
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Mark A. Kruger > wrote: > > Not to mention many folks act like you are robbing them when you charge > > anything close to the real cost :) > > At times that appears to be true for both conferences and

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Mark A. Kruger wrote: > Not to mention many folks act like you are robbing them when you charge > anything close to the real cost :) At times that appears to be true for both conferences and software on this list. -Cameron ... ~

RE: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Eric Roberts
be more likely to be sponsors than if the conference was in LA. -Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:16 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Best conference? On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) wrote: > So

RE: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Mark A. Kruger
[mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:16 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Best conference? On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) wrote: > So... Did anyone else get the email stating that this year would be the > LAST CFUnited conference? Yup, and the blog

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) wrote: > So... Did anyone else get the email stating that this year would be the > LAST CFUnited conference? Yup, and the blog posts and the flood of tweets :) Michael (Smith, TeraTech) explained that the reason is financial. They l

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Watts
> So... Did anyone else get the email stating that this year would be the > LAST CFUnited conference? Yes. That is correct. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and pro

RE: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
So... Did anyone else get the email stating that this year would be the LAST CFUnited conference? Steve ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/143027215

RE: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Will Swain
:) It was the free beer that did it Andy. -Original Message- From: Andy Allan [mailto:andy.al...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 July 2010 10:18 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Best conference? Always nice to see someone give us a vote. Having been to CFUnited (twice), MAX (3 times), FOWD and of

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Andy Allan
Scotch on the Rocks. > > There was free beer this year. Free beer is always good. > > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Clarke [mailto:s...@clarke.ca] > Sent: 13 July 2010 21:57 > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Best conference? > > > Thanks, I hadn't re

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Mandel
Clarke [mailto:s...@clarke.ca] > Sent: 13 July 2010 21:57 > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Best conference? > > > Thanks, I hadn't really considered that one. My big concern right now is > CFUnited. I would have liked to go but since there are other options and > it's a

RE: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Will Swain
Scotch on the Rocks. There was free beer this year. Free beer is always good. -Original Message- From: Andrew Clarke [mailto:s...@clarke.ca] Sent: 13 July 2010 21:57 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Best conference? Thanks, I hadn't really considered that one. My big concern right n

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-13 Thread Andrew Clarke
Thanks, I hadn't really considered that one. My big concern right now is CFUnited. I would have liked to go but since there are other options and it's a very inconvenient time for me I think I'll check out one of the others later on in the year or next year. I'm not knocking NCDevCon but mos

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-13 Thread Charlie Griefer
t what are peoples' > opinions on the "best" conference to attend? I've been developing > ColdFusion apps for about 13 years now and have most of the features that > have been around for a while down pretty well. However, I have only one > client using CF8, and am

Best conference?

2010-07-13 Thread Andrew Clarke
I posted a similar question on cf-community a week or two ago, but it sort of got buried and only got one response (thanks ** Private ** for your response). I understand this is probably a loaded question, but what are peoples' opinions on the "best" conference to attend? I