Just noticed this in the hotel and travel tips for CFUnited 2010:
$179 room rate special ends Monday 3/15/10 - tell your ColdFusion and Flex friends so they don't miss out! Last year the hotel sold out of rooms...If you're attending CFUnited, you definitely want to stay at the Lansdowne if you possibly can - it's an awesome hotel/resort! - so make sure you don't miss the special room rate (or, worse, miss the room block completely if they sell out like last year!).
- FW/1 - The Invisible Framework
- ColdFusion and the Open Source Landscape
I've been watching the survey results with interest so I figured it was time to post my thoughts.
First off, the survey sample is very small. 730 respondents. That's less than 0.1% of all CFers. Second, this represents primarily the CFers that could be reached by a conference organization and blogs / Twitter. That means that it is a distorted sample that by definition leans toward those folks most active and most likely to be either more experienced CFers or those trying to expand their skillset.
That all said, let's take a look at the numbers...
Help tell the CFUnited team about the "state of the union" in the CF world and a random submission will win a $999-value ticket to attend the conference at the wonderful Lansdowne resort at the end of July!
Read their blog post for more details and the link to the survey.
Another incentive for completing the survey is seeing the results! As I write this, about 60 people have completed the survey and the results so far already make interesting reading...
Mach-II and Model-Glue are well represented in the frameworks area but there's only been one ColdBox submission (and it wasn't from Luis!) and no Fusebox or cfWheels submissions. There's a couple for FW/1 (thank you!), a couple for ColdSpring, one for LightFront and a few general ones. So please feel free to help round that out by submitting framework topics!
The OO development pickings were even slimmer - just six submissions so far! C'mon speakers, you can do better than that! Please submit some more OO development topics!
- January 12th - NYCFUG - Javier Julio
- February 4th - CFMeetup - Sean Corfield - to be confirmed
- February 17th - BACFUG - Sean Corfield
- April 22-24 - cf.Objective() - Sean Corfield
- June 19-20 - D2WC
Once I find out more details about Scotch on the Rocks 2010, I'll submit a FW/1 talk there as well.
Why so early? By getting a block of early registrations, Stellr will be able to secure a better deal for the conference because they have a longer lead time on venues and facilities.
So help Stellr and save yourself some money - register this week for CFUnited 2010!
