I’m back home in Denver after 360|Flex Indy, and finally able to get my thoughts down on ‘paper’
The conference itself was a huge success, we had about 289 people with us in Indy, which you have to admit ain’t bad for “this economy”.
The hotel and conference center was awesome, i mean, an old train station? awesome! I’m not a huge fan of the layout we ended up with, but i kinda knew that going in. I just hate conferences that span floors, and we did that. Lesson learned.
The sessions, well what’s there to say but that we had 45+ sessions from some of the best minds in the community. Open source projects were launching like kites in a tornado. It was awesome, to be able to be the place where that kind of cool stuff was happening.
Oh and then there was Doug
That's great news to hear the numbers of people who attended given the state of the economy. I'd like to think the smaller the crowd, the easier it is to network with people in the industry. I listened to The Flex Show podcast and it sounded like people had a lot of fun.
I'm curious, did you guys announce at the conference where & when is the next 360?
Thx
Yeah we strive for a size (500ish but not more) that we think makes networking possible without hitting the "MAX effect" where you have 5000+ people, a fraction of which are in your industry, and you have no easy way to find and meet them.
Some one said once that at MAX you might be at lunch with a table full of people, none of whom are Flex developers. At 360|Flex, that's impossible.
We didn't announce the next 360|Flex, since we haven't figured out where it'll be :) but it'll be somewhere around Feb-Apr time frame 2010. We did announce InsideMobile and InsideRIA events, and our second iPhone developer conference 360|iDev.