by Don Burnett..
Chicago: not just for Adobe (Come early for Max, and be WOWED! and it's FREE!)
If you are just blown away with all the Adobe "goodness", and you want to come home to Silverlight, you can always attend Silverlight DevCamp Chicago, a couple of days before Adobe MAX.. FOR FREE... (yep you got that right, for FREE!)
Silverlight DevCamp Chicago
Date:
September 28-29, 2007 (Friday night until Saturday afternoon) event on Upcoming
Time:
Friday (09/28): 7pm-10pm / Saturday (09/29): 11am-5pm / Possible Happy Hour afterwards - Location TBD
Location:
Clarity Consulting 1 N Franlkin St Suite 3400 Chicago, IL 60606
If you are planning to attend in-person, please visit the SilverlightDevCampChicago Attendees page and add your name and contact info.
SilverlightDevCampChicago is an upcoming gathering, inspired by BarCamp, to build Silverlight applications, It's organized by volunteers & Silverlight enthusiasts, with attendance free to all. It's the same weekend as Adobe MAX, but Adobe MAX costs $1,495. This is free to attend. Plus you can help plan it or lead sessions with a simple edit of the event wiki page.
While similar to iPhoneDevCamp this event is focused on a singular technology, we'd like offer some diverse sessions like using PHP to generate Silverlight content, IronRuby/IronPython & the DLR or Moonlight on Linux.
Attendees will include web designers, developers, testers, all working together over the weekend to build Silverlight applications, share experiences, ask questions, and push the limits of web application design. If you're interested in Silverlight, but haven't had time to learn, this is your chance to get up to speed. Plus you'll be able network with other developers in the Chicago area who are interested in Silverlight.
In the barcamp spirit, this is a community event driven by developers around the area. If you have ideas for topics or you want to show off some Silverlight applications you've built, please add it to SilverlightDevCampChicagoSessions
Session Schedule
Friday night
7:00pm - 7:30pm
Welcome, registration, get settled
7:30pm - 8:00pm
Keynote
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Session planning, happy hour, networking, games
Saturday
11:00am - 11:30am
Welcome, registration, get settled
11:30am - 12:00pm
Keynote - Architecting a SilverLight .Net Application - George Durzi / Jonathan Heupel
12:00pm - 1:30pm
lunch, networking, games
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Silverlight / Facebook - Ryan Powers
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Silverlight / Twitter - Dave Bost aka SilverTwitter
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Devin Rader - Topic TBD
4:00pm - 4:30pm
MVC approach for components in Silverlight - Gilbert Corrales
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Session
What's really exciting about this is seeing this in Chicago a few days before Max, and it's a Silverlight community event. This isn't even a Microsoft event and has no Microsoft corporate sponsorship. It just really shows the exciting foothold that Silverlight is taking on the market and the fact that it's growing so fast. It shows me that Silverlight has a good future ahead of it. The exciting thing I'd mention about the schedule is that they plan to focus on Silverlight development outside of the Visual Studio/Expression toolset and even talking about the Linux version of the plug-in. So if you want a good community perspective without the "marketing" plugs, this is a good way to come and learn about Silverlight from a non-platform specific point-of-view especially if you are a Mac or Linux person wanting to develop on those platforms
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