360flex – Session Video Bundles

December 29, 2010 By
In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve figured out to how to bundle session videos.
It’s still a work in progress but here’s what you need to know.
As we render each session and add it to the store page, we also add it to the Bundle (By the way, the bundle is per conference, there’s an DC Bundle and a San Jose Bundle). If you’ve already purchased the DC bundle please know it’s still growing, we’ve got a few more sessions to render. You should be able to click on the download link you got in email and come back to you purchase page, it should be updated with the new videos we’ve added to the bundle since you initially bought it. Don’t worry, you don’t pay again, and you’re not aced out of future additions to the bundle. You just have to come back and get the new content.
We’re working as fast as we can to get more and more session videos rendered, so keep an eye on the store page.
That’s it! Happy new year!
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360Flex – Signing the Welcome banner

August 27, 2010 By

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.

It’s a cool thing to see every attendee walk by and pick up a sharpie and sign it. They write cool messages, inspirational things, etc. It’s great! Each event we hang the banners from the past so everyone can see, and it’s cool when we see people picking their messages out from past events.

You can’t sign the banner if you’re not there. Go register!

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360Flex – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

April 22, 2010 By

We closed the post conference survey last night, hope you took a few minutes to participate.

Those surveys are super huge for us. They give our attendees a chance to tell us what they think of the event. Often times people are brutally honest, and we want that. If you had a terrible time, we want to know about it and make the next conference better. If you had an awesome time, we want to know that too.

Besides that type of feedback, the survey gives us some insight into our attendee demographic. That helps us with sponsorships (Adobe likes to see how many new Flex developers we help bring to the community, etc), and with stuff like food ordering (we heard you guys loud and clear on that one)  and even shirts and other swag. The survey also helps us plan for the future; locations, sizes, etc.

As a way to say thanks for doing one last small thing to help make 360|Flex better, we pick two surveys at random (using Random.org to select a row number) to give prizes to.

Hopefully next time we’ll get better than 1/3 participation in the survey, I mean, come on guys :)

Anyhoo! The winners are selected, and each has an email in their inbox, so we’ll announce them here too!

Leif Wells and Andrew Blair!

We teased in the email about getting an iPad, and we’re leaving it up to each winner to select their prize (within our budget, come on we’re not made of money, LOL)

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted a survey, we truly truly appreciate it, and to those that didn’t, shame on you :)

See you guys in about 6 months!

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360flex – Why you should do your surveys

March 9, 2010 By

If you’re at 360|Flex this week, you should be doing your session surveys! Either via the iPhone app, or the AIR app.

Why?

10 copies of anything you want from Adobe.

3 licenses for ElementRiver Source Mate

Tons for books from O’Reilly, and Apress

Copies of Techsmith Software

4 unlimited Domain licenses for Flextras Components

2 Timbuk2 Messenger bags from Apress

If you don’t have the survey app you can download it here. Make sure you have your attendee ID. If you need it, stop by the Registration desk.

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360Flex Road Trip!

February 26, 2010 By

We’re in the final stretch for 360|Flex San Jose 2010.  Everything is coming together just nicely as this proves to be another amazing show.  If you’re on the fence about coming, it’s a bit late to get cheap flights.  However, it’s never too late to plan a road trip.

Thinking back to our very first 360|Flex, I remember the “Man Funk” road trippers.  They weren’t soul brothas with skills like James Brown.  No, they were the other kinda funk.  The one that fills a car after a few days with unshowered men. :) I won’t embarrass them by calling them out by name, alright maybe I will.  I’ll call out Rance Patterson because we’re now good friends.  He, his brother and another innocent soul braved a road trip from Boise, Idaho all the way down to San Jose.  I’m sure glad they did too, because Rance is a hoot and one of the many gems I’ve met during my tenure with 360|Flex.

Road trips are fun.  I’ve taken a few in my life and I love them all.  Even the ones where kids in the car endlessly loop, “Are we there yet?”  There’s nothing like the open road to open up your mind.  Steven Spielberg knows this to be true. He has stated that when he’s stuck on a problem or needs to work out a new idea, he goes for a drive. (Which I can verify is true, because he almost ran me over in the cross walk once but that’s a different story.)

Personally, I like to fill the iPod with great music. “Friends of Dean Martinez” makes for great driving music, since there’s no lyrics to distract your mind from thinking.  I used to make the trip from the Bay Area of Northern California to the Los Angeles Area of Southern California on a regular basis. My mind was always clear and my soul was at ease after each trip.

Therefore, I suggest a road trip regardless if you’re coming to 360|Flex.  BUT if you need a good reason to take a road trip, 360|Flex is the best reason around.  You’ll learn so much stuff to ponder on the drive home.  Possibilities that will fill your mind and make the miles/hours whiz on by.  Therefore, if you live in Portland, Boise, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City or even Phoenix, it’s not too late to decide to come.  It’s going to be blast for sure.  The only question is, are you going to be there or reading the tweets from home.  You’re choice, but for a few hundred folks, the choice is obvious.  Register now and join us.  See you there and don’t forget to buy a car charger for your iPod!  :)

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