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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:09:31 +0000

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Comment on Resolutions – 2012 Edition by David Fraser

David Fraser — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:54:50 +0000

That makes it easy, having your wife set your goal for the year from the end of the next one…

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David Fraser — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:51:27 +0000

mullpiration/strategipiration?

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Comment on ScaleConf: Review & Closing thoughts by Neil Blakey-Milner

Neil Blakey-Milner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:26:46 +0000

GeekDinner was a fairly successful silo-free networking event. Jonathan was heavily involved in keeping that going (Joe Botha started it, Jonathan Endersby and others helped keep it going as well), but it petered out when he took a break to let others run it.

Jonathan and I organised a Barcamp-style conference a few years ago as well. A two day conference at AIMS for general tech stuff.

I think Jonathan has proven that there’s a market for full-on conferences as well (and Rubyfuza has done the same for language-based conferences).

The hard part of building these sorts of things is overcoming inertia, and maintaining momentum. Financial gain is one way to motivate for momentum – I suspect that if LessFuss had existed earlier, it could have been used to keep GeekDinner running. In many ways, it really is as hard as finding a venue and setting a date. For a Barcamp-style conference, it is the same, with finding some food added on. Getting a sponsor to pay for LessFuss’s services to do these admin things that geeks generally dislike would be pretty easy.

Comment on ScaleConf: Review & Closing thoughts by Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:21:18 +0000

Thanks … I agree on the devs together. There’s a spotty amount of activity, mostly in language-based silo’s. We could do with a BarCamp style gathering…

I’m not sure Symantec can host in CT because of the security status of our building. Worth asking though so I’ll look into it.

Comment on ScaleConf: Review & Closing thoughts by Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:16:39 +0000

Sounds like a plan! I’ll be in touch … I have your email

Comment on ScaleConf: Review & Closing thoughts by Simon

Simon — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:18:34 +0000

Thanks for the writeup, let’s go for a beer sometime.

Comment on ScaleConf: Review & Closing thoughts by Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:38:31 +0000

Hey. Great writeup. I think your descriptions were spot on. Even the boring talks were ok, I think the twitter negativity was a bit of mob mentality sometimes (which I admit to getting caught up in). Hopefully there are no hard feelings.

We need more things like this to get developers in CT together: conferences, talks, drinks, meetups. Maybe you should pull out a “lessons learned @ symantec” talk and have some people over for beers?