360Flex Speaker Chat – Jeffry Houser
Join us this Thursday at 12pm MST for another great Speaker chat with Jeffry Houser.
Jeff owns his own consulting company and has recently starts Flextras, building commercial quality custom components. The Flash platform and Flex community need more people selling awesome high quality stuff. Jeff, Simplified Logic, Grant, they need company.
What you won’t see or get at 360Flex
I was talking to someone (i know who it was but am keeping it to myself) the other day and she jokingly said, you could say “You won’t see Railo at 360|Flex”, and while Railo won’t be at 360|Flex, because it wouldn’t make sense, the point was, 360|Flex isn’t like other events that dilute their offering with things that aren’t the core interest of the audience.
And it occurred to me, that it might be a good idea to make it clear what does/doesn’t happen at 360|Flex for those who might not know.
360Flex – Volunteer to help out and get in free
We realize that the economy still a little suck-tastic. As you may know we try to keep our events as cost effective as possible, 40 sessions, Sunday hands on. Hotel block pricing to help lower the cost of staying near the event, etc.
Sometimes it’s not enough, we get that. Starting back in September at 360|iDev we experimented with having volunteers. We’ve had temps at past events (San Jose ‘07 and Seattle) and while that works ok, we tried to reduce the need, because that helped keep our costs low. The USB Drive and AIR app surveys (Rock on Leif and RoundBox!!) removed our primary need for “worker bees”
360Flex – The Speakers – Ryan Stewart
I was up in Seattle doing some work in the first Starbucks ever. I had a tight deadline writing some copy for the J Peterman catalog.
I’m working on the quilted chambray nightshirts copy when who should strut through the door, but Ryan Freakin’ Stewart! (Ryan doesn’t walk, or run, or skip, he struts)
RFS: You John! Good to see you, what’re you doing here!?
Me: Hey man! Just doing a little side work. Trying to figure out how wrap up some copy, the catalog goes to press tomorrow.
You excited about 360|Flex? I’m really glad you’re sponsoring, it’s always awesome when folks in the community show their support, it means a lot!
360flex – Why you should be staying at the Marriott
If you haven’t heard, we have an official hotel. That’s right, boys and girls. There’s a spot where all the party people are going to staying under one roof. It’s the spot where you can stumble or crawl to your bed after an all-night rager of drinking, coding or perhaps a bit of both.
Why an official hotel that’s not connected to the conference center? For one, the conference center is on eBay’s HQ. They are trying to run a business, not make your beds or pick up your mess. Aside from that obvious reason, we want to keep having fun after we leave eBay. We’re still gonna party at Ebay after the last sessions; However, instead of taking the post functs to someone’s room, we want to take the party to downtown San Jose!
One thing that’s always nice at a conference is bumping into the “superstars”. While it happens a lot at the conference, it’s tough to pull someone aside to buy ‘em a drink to say thanks for contributing to the community. While we (the organizers) may not be the superstars you’re looking for, we will be at the hotel with all the speakers (who are the superstars). If you’re flying all the way to the show to meet and learn from these people, why would you bother staying anywhere else? Yes, it would be silly, especially after you read up on the deal we have for you!
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