Alt.Net UK Summer Conference Dates Announced

[Alan Dean]

We are pleased to announce that the Alt.Net UK Conference will be
returning in September, and that there will be room for more attendees
this time!

The plan is host the event at Conway Hall in London [1] and our
thinking is to follow the same sort of schedule as we did in February:
- Evening planning session on Friday 12th September, following by a
trip to a bar to socialise.
- The Open Spaces sessions all day on Saturday 13th September

This time we are thinking of starting off Saturday with a Park Bench
to get the juices flowing.

We are very open to listening to feedback from the community if you
think that there are ways that we can improve on the conference
experience.

We would especially like to have more testers, technical authors and
usability folk attend to foster cross-pollination of ideas.

User registration will start from Friday 11th July at 07:00 UK time
[2] so the early birds will get the worm!

The following social hubs have also been set up: Upcoming [3],
Facebook [4], FriendFeed [5] and LinkedIn. Don't forget that you can
subscribe to the AltNetUk News River [6].

Finally, we are currently looking for sponsorship, so if you know of
an organisation that would be interested to be associated with the
conference in return for a little lucre, we would love to hear from
you / them! (The conference is non-profit)

Conchango and redgate have generously agreed to be launch sponsors -
but more is needed, especially as we have to pay for Conway Hall this
time.

[1] http://www.conwayhall.org.uk/

[2] http://altdotnet.org/events/5

[3] http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/867921/

[4] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31833353320

[5] http://friendfeed.com/rooms/altnetuk-conference

[6] http://newsriver.altnetuk.com/

Regards,
Ian Cooper, Ben Hall and Alan Dean

[Dylan Beattie]

> This time we are thinking of starting off Saturday with a Park Bench
> to get the juices flowing.

Forgive my ignorance, but what's a Park Bench?

(I did try googling "park bench" "open spaces" but all I got was a bunch of
pages about trees and grass and stuff...)

[Ian Cooper]

Four seats, three speakers. Audience ask questions, speakers answer. To make a point take a chair. Once all chairs are full someone must step down for you to step up.

 

Ian Cooper
07970-411892 (M)

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. "
Mark Twain

[Sebastien Lambla]

So who gets to decide who the speakers are?

 

[confused]

[Ian Cooper]

Volunteers sit down to start, but then folks step down when someone wants to make a point. folks hogging the chair  is nevve an issue.

[Ayende Rahien]

You.

[Sebastien Lambla]

Sounds good to me

[Ian Cooper]

Oren, what's the US name for Park Bench. It's different.

 

Ian Cooper
07970-411892 (M)

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. "
Mark Twain

----- Original Message ----
From: Ayende Rahien <aye...@ayende.com>
To: altnetuk...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 10 July, 2008 11:00:12 AM
Subject: [altnetuk-discuss] Re: Alt.Net UK Summer Conference Dates Announced

You.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Sebastien Lambla <s...@serialseb.com> wrote:

[Ayende Rahien]

You are asking me about US stuff?

No idea.

In Hebrew, it is מושב בפארק

[Ken Egozi]

Oren - Bench is ספסל I believe.

I don't know of neither a US-English nor a Hebrew phrase that can describe a "Park Bench" accurately.

--
Ken Egozi.
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http://www.gotfriends.co.il

[Alan Dean]

I have also created a LinkedIn group for Alt.Net practitioners in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/linkedin-altnetuk

Regards, Alan Dean