2020 Aware IM Developers International Conference

customaware

Let's do a little Survey to generate some ideas for the next Conference....

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johntalbott

Link isn't working for me.

Your post regarding the 2020 conference happens to be your 2020th post. Is this a sign?

customaware

My Bad....

Please try again...

gijsvb

eagles9999 wrote
Let's do a little Survey to generate some ideas for the next Conference....

Hi Mark,

The conference last year in Portugal was great, but I can't afford to visit a conference this year. my bad...

Thanks for organising these meetings anyway,

Gijs.

BLOMASKY

YES! Thank you VERY much for organizing the conferences. They ROCK! They fill my brain with lots of useful ideas. Love learning from my much smarter fellow Awarians.

Bruce

bssxfire8

It would be very awesome to make it to another conference! Hopefully this is happening!

customaware

Not confirmed yet but am leaning towards Bali. 11th, 12th and 13th January 2021.

BLOMASKY

that is a VERY long swim from Florida (ok, over 24 hours in the air!). Not my 1st choice (or 2nd or 34th). I figured since last one was in Europe, we would be back in the good old US of A for this one.

Bruce

customaware

Hi Bruce,

When we held it in Providence, that was a conscious decision to enable the many Aware IM developers in the Eastern USA to come.
There were so many that did not take the opportunity.

Last year, Same reason to hold it in Portugal... a chance for the European guys to make it. Only a handful made the effort.

Also, there are a lot of developers in Australia, India, Thailand, and South Africa that are more likely to come in Bali rather than Europe or USA.

And of course, Bali is a way cool place to hold it. Ask those who attended the 2016 Conference. They all loved it. Roger, Robin, Jeff to name a few.

Jaymer

What Mark says may be true, but I'd like to see how many US folks would attend during the Summer IN THE US.
(That assumes someone else puts on the US Conference.)
There's 4 in FL, plus
OK, NE, CT, plus who knows who else.

Would be interesting to get a head count for US attendees who would commit to a mid-2020 conf.

BLOMASKY

I have NO doubt that Bali is a LOVELY place. And yes, Roger told me how lovely it is, and I would do my best to make it. Just saying its 24 hours in the air and I might show up cranky!

Bruce

tford

I'm in for a US conference.

rprinzing

It would be nice for local US AwareIMers to rally again somewhere close. A regional gathering of the US Aware minds.

For the AwareIM Dev International Conference, I am in full support of Bali.
Reasonably priced, considerate to Vlad if he joins us, and the most extraordinary Dev conference location I've ever participated in. (Magic eDeveloper conferences centered around Las Vegas and ultimately wore me out).

I trust that the face-to-face interaction for all developers is much more important than location. It brings me great joy to see every one of you and hear about the AIM good news!

Jaymer

Vlad told me next version would be several months away... so we'd want to plan for summer. Summer is 5 months away - plenty of time.
I'd fully expect Vlad to attend.
Personally, I don't go to these places/events for a vacation or boondoggle, so I'm not looking for beach or frills.

Would be nice to find an influx of new/potential users - some group that could be marketed to that would have an interest in coming to a product rollout... something that wouldn't happen if it was overseas.

PointsWell

Jaymer wrote
Vlad told me next version would be several months away... so we'd want to plan for summer. Summer is 5 months away - plenty of time.
I'd fully expect Vlad to attend.

You do realise Vlad lives in Australia and that even an event held in Houston, Dallas, LA or San Francisco is a minimum of 18 hours flight time for anyone on East Coast Australia. East coast USA is minimum 24 hours travel time and if you are lucky one connection from the point of boarding a plane in Australia. Personally I think Vlad's time is better spent working on the next release attending just one conference, others may differ in that view.

Again, it's a bit of a slap in the face to Mark who invests a tremendous amount of time in organising events bending over backwards to facilitate the conference and has moved it round the world to generate interest from various continents only for it to fail to materialise.

And all of that is before you add in the increasingly unfriendly approach of US immigration that makes entry to non US citizens more of a burden.

An alternative solution might be a "dial in participant" package for those unwilling to travel.

customaware

Hey guys..... Not a slap in the face to me.

If you guys want to organise and hold it in the USA instead of me organising and holding elsewhere... Terrific.

I would certainly try hard to attend. 24 hours travel time is common place so no bother to me. Even Mongolia to Australia is usually a 24 hour magic carpet ride.

rob_h7

Jaymer wrote
I'd fully expect Vlad to attend.

You paying for him?

Jaymer wrote
Would be nice to find an influx of new/potential users - some group that could be marketed to that would have an interest in coming to a product rollout... something that wouldn't happen if it was overseas.

If it's in Bali it's a lot more likely to have an influx of users from the Asia Pacific region....or don't they count?

It's also a lot easier for the Asia based users to get Visas to travel to (a few were turned back from the US / European conference).

I'm all for Bali Mark, only issue with the dates is Bali is in wet season then, so there might be a few evening soakings. I think it ends about April.

customaware

I was just in Bali on those exact same dates this year in the same hotel. The weather was gorgeous.
Mind you, compared to Mongolia, it rains all the time in Indo.
At least it is still hot enough to swim in the rain. 😃

January is actually the best time for me for a whole range of reasons. Not in the least is that in Mogolia it is usually -30c to -40c at that time so good to get some vitamin D

rob_h7

Yep fair enough - it's summer holidays here on those dates so most of the Australian based AwareIM users will probably be in Bali anyways!

UnionSystems

We'll fly anywhere to attend Mark's excellent AwareIM Conference (and highly recommend the event to anyone using AwareIM).

The effort of taking a longish flight is trivial compared to all the work Mark donates to organising these events!

January is absolutely the perfect time for most Australians as work demands reduce while most of the country takes holidays. We'll come to Bali but Japan or Korea is also a great option in January :

Shortish flight for Vlad and other Aussies
Japan is a great place to visit
No rain but plenty of snow if you like skiing 🙂