360Flex 2012 – Still time to volunteer

March 13, 2012 By

Time’s running out. We’re still in need of a few volunteers.

Volunteering helps the conference in huge ways. We don’t have a staff to help out, we rely on members of the community who want to help the conference and need a little help getting to the conference.

Hows that work?

well what we look for in volunteers are Flex community folks who need some help getting to the conference. Maybe a free ticket helps make attending the conference easier.

What we need in exchange are folks to help get the sessions recorded, work the registration table and help package the goodie bags.

We need quite a few more volunteers so don’t be shy.

Pretty simple. For more information, check out this post and drop us a line.

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360Flex – Android UI and iOS Hands On Training Opportunity.

March 5, 2012 By

Did you know we offer hands on training outside the conference? We do, now. :)

 

We’ve launched 360|HandsOn to offer hands on training built around the same principles as 360|Flex. Small, affordable, and of course awesome. Each class caps at 20 people.

Our first two classes (both in Denver) are focused on mobile, and neither is a beginners course :) Whether you’re looking to go deeper into iOS development or build out your Android app and don’t want it to look like, well most every other Android app, our first two courses are for you.

iOS 201 with our pal Tom Ortega will focus on things you need to know after you’ve built your ‘hello world’. Things like using ARC, building your app with StoryBoards, getting it ready for sale in the App store, and more. 8 Hours packed with real world hands on experience.

Android UI with Dave Smith will focus on something many Android app struggle with. Not looking like an Android app. The course assumes you know your way around the IDE, and the SDK and will cover things like view animations, gestures and multi-touch responses, and using 9-patches, and of course much more.

 

Each class is 8 hours of hands on goodness, with a professional who’s actually doing these things. We provide lunch and lots of coffee :)

Our goal with these and the many more we’re working on, both one and two day, is to offer hands on training that’s affordable for those of us that don’t have a company paying the bill. Of course, being less expensive doesn’t mean we have to offer lesser quality, which once you’ve attended one of these classes you’ll agree, we don’t scrimp :)

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360Flex 2012 – Space at the hotel is running out.

March 2, 2012 By

Sitting on the fence about coming to 360|Flex 2012? That’s fine. Well it’s not, but we know you’ll come around sooner or later, hopefully you do it before we sell out.

This post is a Public Service Announcement.

Rooms at the Denver Marriott South are filling up fast. Whether you’re on the fence or just slow to act, get your hotel room before you buy your ticket to the conference. You can cancel the hotel room up to 24 hours before if you need, but once our room block is full, that’s that. you’ll be paying full price for the hotel or having to drive from another hotel. Oh yeah there’s no other hotels within walking distance, and the nearest is across the freeway. So yeah, missing the room block is a big deal.

Not only does missing the room block mean you don’t get to hang out at the conference parties then just take an elevator your your room, but having to stay elsewhere hurts the conference. We need our room block to fill up. Selling our room block out ensures we get the discounts and things we need from the hotel to ensure 360|Flex can keep going.

 

Book your hotel room now! Even if you’re gonna wait to get the conference ticket. See you in April

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360Flex 2012 More than “Just Flex”

February 24, 2012 By

Whether you’re bullish on Flex or not, 360|Flex 2012 is the event you need to be at.

Why? Sponsors like Sencha, Appcelerator and more (we’re signing up new sponsors all that time!).

With Spoon and the Apache Flex project, Flex has a bright and promising future, but maybe you’re interested in other technologies? Maybe things to add to your bag of tricks alongside Flex? Thats where these awesome companies come in. 360|Flex has never been “just” a Flex conference, but now more than ever we’re becoming a developer stack conference. Whether your stack is HTML5 technologies, mobile technologies or flash based technologies it’s more about the stack than a single “tool”

More than ever 360|Flex is an event for developers doing cutting edge, super awesome things. Best of all, regardless of the technology, it’ still very much about the community that exists. As people migrate to and from the Flex community they bring the community with them, spreading what makes our community awesome, to others.

If you haven’t bought your ticket, if you’re sitting on the fence. I wouldn’t do it too long. When it sells out, it sells out, no amount of crying is gonna change our capacity. Just sayin’

Register now! See you in April.

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360Flex 2012 – Help The Awesome, Volunteer!

February 23, 2012 By

It’s that time again! We’re putting out the call publicly for volunteers!

Part of what makes 360|Flex awesome is that we keep our costs as low as possible in order to have more speakers, and do more cool things for the community. I mean what would rather have, a fancy stage with a couch on it, or more sessions?

Part of keeping out costs low is offering volunteer positions to those who can’t afford to attend the conference.

So what’s in it for us?

Well we need people to assemble goody bags, help record sessions, work and man the registration desk, and generally just help around the conference wherever Nicole or I need ya. Having volunteers also allows us to help the community by offering a chance for those who normally wouldn’t be able to make it to 360|Flex a chance to attend. That’s a big deal for some people where the price of the conference ticket separates attending and not attending.

What’s in it for you?

Well you get a free pass to the conference. We try to make sure volunteers that are helping with session recording, are in the sessions they’d want to sit in on even if they weren’t a volunteer helping record.  You still get into all the parties and fun stuff.

You get to see the gritty underbelly of 360|Flex… ok that’s less of a perk, but still.

How do you get in on this great offer?

It’s easy. just email us and tell us you want to volunteer. Actually we need more than “I want to volunteer” below are the questions we’d want you to answer in that email, so we can select our volunteers.

Questions we need answered in your email

  • Your name
  • Your phone number (Mobile preferred) If selected we commicate largely by sms, it’s fast and easy.
  • Whether you’re local to Denver or not
  • Are you available to help on Saturday?
  • Are you available to help on Sunday?
  • Why should we select you as a volunteer? This is your chance, impress us.

 

Not so hard right? at least we don’t make you make a video or perform tricks and such.

 

See you in April!

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