360Flex – Signing the Welcome banner
Since the very first 360|Flex, we’ve had a tradition. We hang a nice big banner somewhere everyone can see it. It’s up (usually) on Sunday, and hangs until Tuesday night, when it’s taken down and draped across a table for every attendee to sign.
This tradition, as most do, didn’t start as a tradition, but come the second 360|Flex, Tom and I thought, that the first one was really cool, and made a second one, then a third, forth, and so on.
360Flex – Speaker – Garth Braithwaite
In our second feature on our speakers, we asked our bank of questions to Garth Braithwaite. Garth is doing the Hands-on AIR 2.0 session on Sunday, as well as the session “Decrapping Your App” on Wednesday.
Q: How long have you been working with Flex?
A: I hate* that question. *Complete rant on RIA Radio.
Q: What do you like most about Flex?
A: The logo
ME TOO!! It’s so logo-y
360Flex – Volunteers needed
For those that were at 360|Flex San Jose this past year you’ll know we had volunteers to help out. The volunteers were a HUGE help, and a large part of why the conference was probably the smoothest we’ve ever done. It’s that time again for our call for volunteers! Why do we want volunteers? Obviously [...]
360Flex – Things you’ll see in DC – Part 1
We’re hard at work locking in great sponsors (see two of them below), and awesome content, and I wanted to share a little with everyone.
Keynotes
Obviously monday’s keynote will be something to not miss. Not only will Adobe be giving us a peak at what’s new/hot/coming soon, but we’re handing over the mic, and the room to Doug McCune.
Sure we all know Doug from “Cool Shit” at Indianapolis, and plenty of other awesome, if not always child friendly sessions, but he’s also ridiculously smart, and a great speaker (Check out his RIAdventure talk, and tell me it’s not motivating). 360|Flex since the beginning has opened with more staid keynotes. Adobe (Ebay when we’re there) giving more state of the union style talks, previews, etc. I’d like to change that.
While we don’t want to completely move away from that, we do want to start raising the bar in the community, for events. Deepa is awesome, and I hope she come to DC to wow us (Check out her keynote from 360|Flex San Jose, it’s free just put it in the cart), but I think it’d be cool to get the community jazzed about what we do. We’re not stodgy old programmers building dashboards, and Web service front ends. We’re doing cool things! Let’s talk about that! Let’s talk about what isn’t done but is possible. Let’s talk about what isn’t possible and how that’s not stopping us!
360Flex – The east coast is tough!
We’ve promised the east coast crowd, an honest to god east coast 360|Flex since… well since our first event back in ’07
We’re keeping that promise, finally, but it sure ain’t easy! The east coast is expensive, for an event like 360|Flex. We don’t charge a lot to get in, and most hotels costs more than the price of a ticket to 360|Flex. That’s hard to think about, staying at the hotel for the event is more than the event. At least bigger events, it’s even, which makes it less noticable :)
THAT SAID. We’re really close to locking in a hotel that should do nicely for 360|Flex, and still keep to our not breaking the bank mentality. I sure can’t wait to see how an east coast 360|Flex is responded to, it will certainly dictate whether there’s any more… no pressure :)
Stay tuned, the next day or two will see the announcement of time, location, and call for papers. Don’t miss out!
In the meantime, make sure to check out the session videos from 360|Flex San Jose and RIAdvanture. Some truly great stuff there!
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