As MySQL’s Zack Urlocker was kind enough to point out, and my colleagues have already noted, we at RedMonk will be running another unconference track at CommunityOne the day before JavaOne starts. Unlike JavaOne, it’s free. Also unlike JavaOne, we’ll all collectively be deciding on the agenda at the start, though we’re already queueing up sessions on everything from RIA (Adobe, JavaFX, Ajax and more) to Twitter Best Practices.
As was the case last year, I expect a diverse audience and slate of subjects. In addition to the aforementioned topics, I’m sure we’ll have dynamic language chatter, good open source talk, and more.
And actually, on the open source front, while I haven’t spoken with Zack or Mårten about it, I’d like to extend the invitation to have one or more of the MySQL folks join us and discuss their business model experimentation with the audience. There’s been a lot of talk about their decisions of late, to the extent that Mårten has actually proposed an unconference session on the subject.
Well as it turns out, we’ve got the venue for that, and while I can’t speak for the audience, I’d be interested to see a discussion between MySQL and users of the product because it has implications far beyond MySQL. So Mårten, Zack and co consider yourselves invited. As, of course, are the folks from Postgres, Derby, CouchDB – you name it.
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Red Monk and the Women’s Tee Dilemma | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon says:
April 29, 2008 at 11:43 pm
[…] its pretty cool company, with plenty of smart women in its community. So when it was planning for RedMonk’s unconference this year May 5th at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, it wanted to make sure it had t-shirts specially made for […]
Chris Messina says:
April 30, 2008 at 12:14 am
Don’t forget the OpenIDDevCamp going on!
http://openid.net/2008/04/29/openiddevcamp-at-communityone-552008/
tecosystems » Maine Landing says:
May 3, 2008 at 2:58 am
[…] be here in Maine until then, at which point I’ll be en route out to San Francisco for the RedMonk Unconference @ CommunityOne (which you all are hereby ordered to attend) and JavaOne. Arriving late night Sunday, I’ll be […]