Last year I kicked off something that turned into one of the most comprehensive lists of conferences out there. I’d love to get the communities’ help again! Are you going to any conferences? Looking for conferences to attend? Looking to submit talks, hear someone speak or figuring out what conferences are in places you want to visit?
Node PDX
Dive into the list in this public Google Doc and help update it with 2014 conferences. New year, time for a new list! In case the link doesn’t copy and paste the link below into your browser, it’ll get you navigated straight into the spreadsheet.
So far I’ve kicked off the list with Node PDX, missing a few details since it’s unannounced so far, but I know they’ll be announced soon enough. Cheers!
Node PDX 2014 (still shows old site, but get info on it by checking out the site!)
Recently I was talking to Jeff Martens of CPUsage about Hackathons. A few questions came up about what would make a hackathon fun, exciting and worth your time. Here’s a few questions, that I’d love to have a conversation about…
What type of hacking would you or do you prefer to do at a Hackathon? Hardware Hacking? Software Hacking?
How important are the prizes?
What should the prizes or rewards be?
How many people should attend that would actually make the Hackthon fun?
Have you attended, and if so, what was the coolest thing about the hackathon to you?
Are hackathons better as 1 day or 2 days or more?
Should hackathons be during the week or the weekend?
…and as you can imagine, there’s a million other questions. What’s your take on hackathons? Got a few thoughts? Throw down a comment or two, much appreciation for your thoughts, next beer is on me! 😉
Here’s the first of a series of introductions for the upcoming Node PDX Conference here in bright and sunny Portland, Oregon!
…and no, that isn’t sarcasm, it’s the summer time now so we’re allowed to have sun and warm weather! With that, the speakers for Node PDX!
Ward Cunningham presenting…
My Sensors Love Node.js
Ward Cunningham
Who’s Ward? In his own findings, “The Oregonian describes me as the Old Growth of the Silicon Forest. I appreciate the thought but move way too fast to be compared to trees. Think of me as your intellectual immune system separating good technology infections from bad. Ditch that fever. Go with node.”
As Ward describes this presentation, “I’ve tested a half-dozen home sensor integration technologies over as many years and learned something important about architecture with each generation. I’ve replaced Arduino hardware with Teensy which offers much better USB support. I’ve replace C++ with Perl then with Ruby/Sinatra and now Node/Wiki each time feeling the fresh air of a more friendly and dynamic environment. I’ve plotted results with ascii-art, java-2d, flot and now d3.js which can be a career in itself. I’ll share the good parts of each of these and suggest how you will know when it is time for you to move on.”
Nexxy presenting…
Realtime Hardware with Node.js
Nexxy
Key facts about Nexxy:
Nexxy has been hacking on things in one way or another SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
Nexxy is also known for her occasional use of hyperbole as a literary device.
Nexxy first began hacking arduinos with node while she was working with a vegan strip club named Casa Diablo.
Nexxy is now enjoying her work with Ninja Blocks as they take over the world with the internet of things!
Nexxy inexplicably decided at the last second to write this section of the proposal in 3rd person, bullet form.
…and I have recreated this proposal section here for your information!
Join Nexxy & all for another installment of “Realtime Hardware with Node.js” as we take a look at just how exactly one should go about making a fool of themselves on stage with a bunch of electronics. We will cover the basics of getting started with hardware, demonstrate some cool tech, and conclude with a super rad (slightly hazy) and interactive dance party of epic (modest) proportions — if everyone cooperates. Questions are welcome throughout the presentation and audience members are encouraged* to participate.
* bribed with stickers
Jerry Seivert presenting…
Know Your Environment
Jerry Sievert
Jerry is a conousier of fine beer, drinks and other assorted things. The relevant list of coarse includes Lego, trains and JavaScript. His own words of these things, being a drink or beautifully coded up application, “I love to build things!” summarizes up Jerry’s love of building perfectly!
Jerry will pose the question, “What if your software knew about its environment and could react?” With very basic electronics skills, and the ability to read a datasheet, you can be well on your way to a smarter and more responsive application. We will discuss some common hardware protocols and how to interface your code with them to build something all “teh aWeSOME“!
Hannah Fousanon presenting…
Optimizing Single-Page Javascript Websites for SEO
Hannah
Hannah Fouasnon is a cofounder and lead engineer at DJZ based in San Francisco. While a full time hacker, she’s currently focusing on creating DJZ’s next single-page javascript website optimized around playing media and games. Former projects include Luckysort, a big-data, text-analytics company based in Portland, OR, where she implemented a large portion of the node.js architecture.
Hannah will cover how to create single-page javascript websites and enable developers to more easily support advanced web client features. For example, the persistent playing experience on soundcloud is supported by a single-page backbone.js architecture. One of the downsides when deciding on this architecture is that web crawlers have trouble indexing content, which can hurt seo and facebook sharing.
This presentation covers how we solve this problem at DJZ. The example will be a simplified angular.js application optimized for seo using primarily phantom.js. Viewers can follow along with code on github (link to come).
…if you are deciding what to attend this year, here’s the top of the list.
Just a few key conferences that will kick ass in technical & academic content. The other great thing about these conferences is that they either have a “code of ethics” or are reknown for real conference diversity vs. the “hey a bunch of privileged sameness all ended up in this room purely out of meritocracy” nonsense. So you can rest assured that at these conferences you’ll have interesting conversations, be actively involved in things that will expand our personal sphere of the world and in the end leave you dramatically more enriched than those “corporate warm body vacation conferences“. This list doesn’t mean I’ll be able to make it to all of them, but each conference I’m in some way intimately involved with and fully support with the “Conference Seal of Approval“! So here we go…
Write the Docs – April 8th and 9th – @writethedocs – A new movement, to know where we are, where we’ve been and where we’re going. Get here, know how and why to bring knowledge forth through documentation. This is not your grandpa’s documentation.
Portland RailsConf 2013 – April 29th-May 2nd – @railsconf – The rails community has grown by leaps and bounds. Regardless of your love or hate for the framework, it’s revolutionized the way web applications are built over the last decade.
RICON East in New York City – May 13th & 14th – @basho – (I do work for Basho, but this is on here because RICON last year ROCKED and meets the requirements, come see for yourself!) 🙂
Node PDX – May 16th & 17th – @nodepdx – Troy Howard and I are putting this together, we’re working hard to make sure it’s more of what you want, more than it was last year and kicking to the curb the things you don’t want. So come hack some node, JavaScript and enjoy yourselves.
Polyglot 2013 – May 24th through the 26th – @polyglotConf – Open spaces, with tons of really, truly smart people with no presumptuous marketing and sales bullshit to get in the way. This is about software development, across the realms of frameworks, languages and more.
OS Bridge – June 18th through the 21st – @osbridge – open source bridges the divide here and new thinking is created. You have to attend to see…
OSCON – July 22nd through the 26th – @oscon – This is the premier open source conference in North America. It’s in Portland. Nuff’ said.
I’ll be at a few more conferences this year, but these are the key conferences, if you have to pick one to go to, it should be on this list. If you can go to one or two others, pick em’ from this list. Software + Data + Giant Phat Data + NoSQL + Future Thinking + Leaders o’ Thoughts == Top Conference List.
This is the first in a series (AKA a list) of lists that I’m researching and putting together. I’ve had many questions in the last few weeks for “cool conferences”, “awesome hackathons”, “meetups” and “conferences that are worth the time” and related. So here’s the conferences list so far, I’ll be adding more on my conferences page over time. If you’re looking for the most updated list, check out that page. Here’s what others & I have collected so far. Thanks to everyone on twitter, facebook and those other places we’ve discussed conferences:
Github: @adron
Developer Conferences
OSCON
Qcon London
Qcon San Francisco
HTML 5 Developers Conference
Web 2.0
Velocity Conf Beijing
Velocity Conf Santa Clara
Strata Conf Santa Clara
Strata Conf London
Strata Conf Boston
Strata + Hadoop World (NYC)
OSCON (Red Hat table)
Fluent Conf (San Francisco, CA)
Portland Code Camp
Seattle Code Camp
San Francisco Code Camp
Node Conf
Node Summit
Node PDX
Ruby on Rails Conf
Cascadia Ruby Conf
Strangeloop
Defrag / Glue
Mobile Web Development Conference
Mozilla Festival
Checking out awesome new tech with Dave McCrory at VMworld
RubyWorld Conference
Software Craftsmanship
Øredev
Monktoberfest
RICON
Symposium on OS Design and Implementation (OSDI)
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
I don’t often ask for RT, tumblr, reddit or other links, but would love to see how big the list can become, so if you have a second please link it, retweet it, like it on facebook or Google+ and get it out there. Thanks!
Updated on Wednesday the 7th of November, 1:37pm 2012
Last Updated 4:41pm on Wednesday the 7th, November of 2012. For the most up to date list check out the conferences page.
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