Busy October
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Besides working on two client projects (Kiobo and Fiveruns), tons of family stuff and my normal social calendar, I will be sleeping even less then normal this october due to the Rails Rumble and the <head> conference. Each event will eat up one of my October weekends, but neither technically don’t require me to leave my house.
Rails Rumble
Dates: October 18th and 19th
This is my first year entering the Rails Rumble and I think it is going to be really exciting, challenging and fun. I teamed up with Dan Ahern, Nate Ostgard and Will Harris (the usual suspects) and we have, what I think is, a pretty fantastic idea. I am excited not only to see our app come to life, but I also can’t wait to see how we deal with working on a super crunched timeline (48 hours). Although we aren’t allowed to start any code or design work till the contest beings, we are putting a lot of effort in spec’ing out the project, gathering resources (plugins), research and working on our development methodology. I am currently working on ideas on how to live blog the creation of the app between “time lapse photography” concepts, twitter and tumblelogging. Whatever the outcome is, it is sure to be a well caffeinated good time!
<head> Conference
Dates: October 24 – 26
The <head> Conference, formerly Singularity, is:
a web conference that brings together some of the most interesting and exciting developers, designers, creatives, and thought leaders from around the web to share with you their passions and expertise.
Basically it is a web conference for web designers and developers completely online… thats right people you don’t need to leave your house to attend. It is a great 3 day line up of speakers and sessions. Due to it’s online nature, the cost is fairly minimal (was 99 dollars for a while, I think it is now up to 149) and ticket price includes access to the live sessions as well as copies of the recordings of every session.
Now I know what you are thinking, “sitting alone in my house isn’t as fun as going to a real conference” and I hear ya. I find that the social aspect of conferences is one of the best parts, and <head> is doing its best to setup live hubs for people to meetup up and “attend” the conference together as well as be social afterwards. Think coworking for conferences. I am hoping Indyhall setups a hub, but for now it seems most of the hubs are in the UK.
I am sure there will be some rough patches being that as far as I can tell it is the first conference to go really completely online, but I hope it all works out well, I would love to see more conferences function like this as I could probably attend one a month if I didn’t have to travel…. leaving the traveling for the big conferences (SXSW).
