Places going fast! Register for Agile Open Northwest 2012!

[Michael J. Tardiff]

Folks --

Registration opened just a few days ago, but places are going fast. If
you'd like to join us in Seattle, register today!

Announcing Agile Open Northwest 2012! This Agile Open Space event will
be held February 7th and 8th, 2012, in the Northwest Rooms of Seattle
Center in Seattle. As a previous attendee, we're inviting you first!
So register today to make sure you get a space. For registration and
further details go to :

http://www.agileopennorthwest.org

This will be our sixth annual Agile Open Northwest conference.
Alternating each year between Portland and Seattle, AONW conferences
bring together practicing members of the Northwest Agile communities
to explore the latest developments in agile software development. We
held our fifth annual event last year in Portland and enjoyed another
great success. Registration is $150.00 for both days, including light
breakfast and lunch. This low-cost regional conference is a great
opportunity to connect with the local agile community, experts and
novices alike.

Please join us this year as we host 125 experienced, collaborative,
committed agile practitioners from the Northwest U.S. (and beyond) in
tackling the issues around our recurring theme "Agile for Real." As in
past years, attendance is limited to a predetermined number in order
retain the many advantages a small conference has to offer.

Here is a comment from a previous attendee:

"These two-day Agile Open Northwest conferences are an extremely good
value. ..[Y]ou learn directly from practitioners in the agile
community what works and what doesn't. I attended the first two of
these conferences, they were stunningly good... loads of practical,
useful stuff and stimulating discussions." -- Ian Savage, PNSQC
Program Chair

More information can be found at http://www.agileopennorthwest.org. We
look forward to seeing you there!

[Michael J. Tardiff]

And, amazingly, we're sold out, and in less than a week; it's a new record for AONW.

We're maintaining a waiting list, and each year, some folks come off the waiting list. Check the site for details.

In the meantime, we'd love to know what you all think about this. Anything's open for discussion: how fast we sold out, how many places we have at the event, the pricing the venue and frequency, anything. I'll take anything I learn here to the Board of Directors of AONW (and a number of those directors follow this group as well)

If you got a spot before registration closed, see you in February. And in the meantime, happy December to all, and to all a good new year!

+ Michael