Announcing the ColdFusion Unconference at MAX
So yesterday I hinted at an announcement regarding MAX. Unfortunately I wasn't 100% sure after I blogged if it was truly ok to talk about it. I just got formal approval so here we go.
When MAX was announced, it was mentioned that 4 unconferences would be run at the same time. The idea behind an 'unconference' is simply a more informal, community-driven conference. So while Adobe is (properly) exercising content control over the main sessions, the unconferences can be a bit more... loose in their content. While I'm not exactly sure what the other three will focus on, one unconference will be specifically on everyone's favorite programming language - ColdFusion!
To quote Ted Patrick, MAX Chaos Manager:
"The MAX team is really excited about the ColdFusion Unconference at MAX NA. It will be a great way for the community to share knowledge and exchange ideas."
So what's the plan? My thinking is that I want to gather a list of folks who will be attending ColdFusion. This list will be based on folks I know and folks who volunteer. I will then try to gather together a basic schedule. Obviously this will not be set in stone and will flex a bit (did you notice the product placement there?), but this could be a real good opportunity to go 'outside the box' a bit at MAX.
As an example (and I'm not saying this will happen for certain), I think the work Sean, myself, and others are doing for Broadchoice is pretty kick butt. We can maybe plan a session where Sean talks about the cool stuff he did with Transfer and clusters, and I can speak about what I did to enable dynamic plug and play applications within a greater Model-Glue framework. Joe could perhaps give an update on Model-Glue 3 (if it's not done by then, but I'm sure it will be). I'm a big fan of show and tell. While a session on "How do to RSS in CF" is nice - another session with multiple, deep examples of it is even more exciting I think. (Shoot, maybe I can talk about CFBloggers and it's use of cffeed,cfthread.)
My thought here though is to get some really deep, advanced type sessions, and perhaps even some good open discussions that folks would really enjoy.
So for now - that's the announcement. As we get closer to MAX I'll set up a quick wiki to host the schedule and will contact folks (who are attending MAX of course) I want to bribe into speaking. Please free free to suggest some ideas (and people, guilt works) now as well.
Comments
sounds a great idea and i really like the idea of seeing what other people are doing, especially if they can show real code (or even a sanitized version if need be)
> Joe could perhaps give an update
> on Model-Glue 3 (if it's not done by
> then, but I'm sure it will be)
If I knew you were that faithful, I'd try to sell you some land in Florida...
On a serious note - maybe some folks will have some MG3 sites done by then. I can show what I did in cflib.
Ray, count me in for the unconference. I can do something on the Unitrin rewrite and issues we ran into refactoring to OOP at that scale or I can run a CF+OOP fundamentals session. They didn't select the Mach-II Primer session I submitted, so I could do something on that too/instead. Heck, by November, I could probably do a "Flex is irritatingly simple" session.
If I can help outside of sessions, happy to do that too.
Does that make sense to everyone?
Oh, and my last comment may be taken as kind of naughty now that I reread it. My wife is a gamer, and better then me, thus she would be the one teaching power leveling. Not what you sick bastards may have been thinking. shame on you. ;-)
As you're taking volunteers, I'm willing both to assist however I can (thanks for your occasional guest hosting on the CF Meetup!),and I'd certainly like to propose to speak. I don't have any one topic but could pull from a large number. I also plan by then to have something that could be very important to show which could be of interest to most CFML shops. I'll let the suspense build from that. :-) But if you do ultimately choose to have me speak, I'll really look forward to it.
Thanks for this and all your efforts.
I'm sure you already have a gaggle of Adobe speakers, but if you want one more, I've got a bunch of examples the skirt around the topics of data push, CF gateway, LCDS, CFTHREAD, and more. If that sounds interesting, and you've got the space, sign me up! Of course I'm happy to simply listen to all the other top-notch speakers as well (smile)!
In terms of topics, Brian Meloche held a good BOF/brainstorming/venting session at MAX last year on pitching and positioning CF outside of the CF community. With so many new developments over the past year (just over the past month) this could be really interesting.
DK
And suggestion for BlogCFC 6 - build in "http://"; for the Website: field.
peas
DK
Schedule is posted: http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/page.cfm/ColdFusion-...
I'll be blogging this later today.
For those who wrote her to volunteer sessions (sessions only, for those who wanted to help manage, I'll ping later), please forgive me but I'd like you to email me directly now. (Yes, I know some of you did and then I said to blog a comment, but my intent was to group you guys all here. :) Pick a time, or a few times, and be sure you want to volunteer to speak. I'll then start filling out the schedule.
Note - some of the times are during lunch. Adobe has said they will be providing lunches to us, which is darn cool I think. I believe they said box lunches, which, frankly, I prefer over the 'hot food' at most conferences.