WSO2Con 2011 was a real Tweet!
- Jonathan Marsh
- Vice President - Strategy, WSO2
WSO2Con 2011 is winding down – last set of tutorials conclude today. I may be biased but IMO this has been the best technology conference I’ve ever attended. Great speakers from around the world, lots of insight and frank discussion, tons of intra-conference networking and info sharing, fabulous keynotes, and a great mix of the practical and the visionary. And the conference organization was … outstanding? impeccable? jawdropping? … I’m kind of speechless! You’d think our WSO2 event team had been doing this for decades.
And ripples of the event went out well beyond Water’s Edge – hundreds of sessions were viewed live through the simultaneous webcast (recordings will be available at some point.) Facebook pictures are still popping up from dozens of attendees (what was the last tech conference you went to that included elephant rides?) And twitter was going nuts - #WSO2con was used over 1000 times, and broke the top 100 of trending topics during the conference. So I’d thought I’d share a few highlights as expressed through some of my favorite tweets:
(Paul answering a question about how we can compete technically against IBM’s R&D budget.)
(The question was about how we assign “resources” to projects and tasks.)
(Samisa talking about how a company of our size builds the impressive number of “products” and services that we do.)
(That’s on two units over the first two months of deployment, equal to approx 250K US $ – a very cool iPod-based point-of-sale app modeled after the Apple Store experience – read the just-released case study.)
(During Shankar’s building of a complete application in StratosLive during his session.)
(Dimitry made heavy use of free public forums during his evaluation and development.)
Just a small taste – start planning now not to miss WSO2Con 2012. I won’t miss it for anything!
Jonathan Marsh, VP Business Development and Product Design
Jonathan’s blog: https://jonathanmarsh.net/blog