360flex – Some stuff to help make the cruise even better(er)!!!

July 31, 2009 By

First for those that are thinking about spending a week with us as well as some of the big name, big brain RIA crowd, we wanted to get some community involvement on what topics we should talk about.

So we created a uservoice site just for the cruise. Even if you can’t make it, throw out some topic ideas. The idea is that on the second conference day, we’re going to be semi barcamp and just openthe floor to break out discussions. Give us some ideas. Since we’re all in one room, I’ll likely video both days, so even if you can’t make it, you might get some nuggets of wisdom from the video :D

Also for those that definitely ARE going, we know that some of you might not have a Significant other or maybe they can’t make it. Since boats are all Double Occupancy rooms, we thought we’d set up a wiki for attendees to see if they could find a bunk mate. Nothing fancy, the site explains it.

The wiki is where we’ll also set up dinner plans, etc in advance.

Take a look, help shape the cruise/conference, it’s gonna be hella fun, I can’t wait!!360flex

Don’t forgot, register now!!

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360Flex – Flex show interviews

July 30, 2009 By

This is a bit late, but for those of you who aren’t regular listeners of The Flex Show, you might find these three recordings interesting. These are your (assuming you attended) fellow attendees talking about the conference, and Flex in general.

Enjoy.

Day 1.

Day 2.

Day 3.

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First two speakers announced for RIAdventure 360 – Ryan Stewart and Doug McCune

July 7, 2009 By

When we decided to do this conference, we realized it couldn’t just be business as usual.  The likelihood of getting corporate buyoff on a traditional conference being held on a cruise was unlikely.  Even though the cost would be no more than a traditional conference, someone up the management chain would have a tizzy when they saw the NCL (Norwegian Cruise Line) name on the expense report.

Therefore, we decided to take a different approach.  Rather than have rehashed presos and talks about specific products, what if we took it to a higher level?  What if we talked about the future of RIA?  Who would we want leading that discussion?

Two people immediately jumped into my mind when I asked myself that question.  I quickly hit them up on instant messenger to get their initial thoughts.  They caught onto the concept gave a tentative yes.  Now, after checking their schedules, they’ve given the thumbs up to participating.

We’re happy to announce that Doug McCune and Ryan Stewart will be joining us as the first two speakers at the RIAdventure 360 conference.

Doug McCune is one of those amazing tinkerers.  Everyone and their grandma can hatch an idea.  Very few people have the skillset to hatch an idea and make it a reality.  Even fewer have the knowledge and abilities to make it a reality in a matter of days.  Doug is one of those people.  We’re looking forward to hearing how he leverages other people’s work to accomplish new and amazing things in a short amount of time.  He’ll also give input on where RIA should go to enable him to do even greater things.

Ryan Stewart was once THE RIA blogger.  Before Adobe wisely swept him up, Ryan was crisscrossing the country to find all the coolest players in the RIA Space.  If you wanted to know about what was the latest and greatest was in the RIA Space, you just had to hit up Ryan’s blog and you’d be in the know.  We’re offering Ryan a chance to return to his roots.  Adobe has narrowed his focus, but we know that the entire RIA space still runs through his veins.  Once Ryan puts his finger back on that RIA pulse, it’ll be interesting to see what he finds and where he thinks things are heading.

Stay tuned to the speakers page to find out the latest about our speakers.  If you have an idea for a speaker, don’t hesitate to contact us to let us know.

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360Flex – MAX 360Flex style! Call for Papers open

July 7, 2009 By

This October we’ll be in Los Angeles (On purpose) for Adobe MAX 2009. We’re excited to bring 360|MAX back, better than ever!

This time we’ve got a little bit of room to maneuver. We’ve got two passes we can give to 360|MAX speakers. These are NOT full conference passes, and we can’t cover hotel or anything. But for those in the SoCal area that can’t afford to attend MAX this might be a nice option!

We’re taking sponsorships as well this year, so prospective sponsors should email us so we can set something up. Sponsorship is limited to 4 sponsors.

We’ve also got some cool things we’ll be raffling off, like a Flex Builder license

The call for papers is open!

go to the 360|MAX topic submission site and submit your topic! Don’t worry, if you submit a topic and it only has three votes. Voting is only part of the equation, Tom and I still control the content, so gaming the system so you have 8,675.309 votes, won’t do any good on it’s own.

The voting site is simply to help Tom and I keep a pulse on the community we serve and see what ya’ll are interested in.

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360Flex – No west coast show, but how about a cruise?

July 1, 2009 By

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Tom and I have partnered with Josh Cyr (organizer of the last RIAdventure cruise) to bring RIAdventure360!

We’re going to be spending 7 days in early December cruising around the Western Caribbean  talking about RIAs and the future of the internet.

We’re getting a few speakers together to sort of help guide discussions. Since this is a cruise and all that, we don’t want it to be all structured and formal like a conference. What we’re going for is a more barcamp style event. The plan is we’ll get together during the 2 ‘at sea’ days, we’ve got a room with A/V and all that, there’ll be grub too of course and we’ll pick some topics and talk.

Our hope is the discussion ranges from the future of RIAs, mobile, server side technologies, whether Flash will ever be on the iPhone, etc :D

Stay tuned for more, but we’re locking some awesome folks down as our “speakers”

It’s a pretty sweet deal too, I might add, the price roughly works out to what you’d spend to attend most other conferences, and this is a cruise! Check out the ship and the cruise plan, then Register!

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