Are you going to IamLUG?
Come! Register right now! It is in St. Louis (which is an awesome Midwestern city) and it runs May 6 & 7.
That’s a Monday and Tuesday people! Who can’t get out of the office for a Monday and Tuesday??
This will be my first time attending and I am very excited because I’ve always heard great things about it.
In case you had not noticed, the LUGs are the thing these days.
They have the 1996 Lotusphere feel to them which is awesome!
- They are focused on technology (vs marketing).
- They are cheaper to attend (often they are free or only require a very small registration fee vs $2K+).
- They are easier to attend because they are shorter (Connect takes a week but a LUG can be done in a couple of days).
- The crowd is smaller so the community vibe is way bigger!
I am also speaking this year at IamLUG. Giving another fine introduction to folks on how to use managed beans in your XPage applications. If my speech ain’t your thing (or you’ve heard it all before…or you just don’t care for my style…shocking, I know…ha ha ha), there are TONS of other sessions that look really great.
Let’s face it. Your boss may not always be there for you when you say you want to go to IBM Connect since it may not be on obvious tie-in to your current technical environment but IamLUG? That’s an easy sell up the chain. Cheaper, closer, shorter, nicer, friendlier, better content for you.
I'll be there! And your talk at Connect was AMAZING! So I hope everyone attends IamLUG just to see it!
You hear that people? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! (Blushing now.)
High praise indeed from a certified Nerd Girl!
A Nerd Girl you can hear speak at IamLUG!
I went to IamLUG a few years ago and was blown away by how good it was! I am so glad to be going again this year.
Many of the best technical people from Lotusphere/IBM Connect are presenting great technical info for free (and the Tack It On day is reasonable). Plus, having only 3 or 4 tracks presented in adjoining conference rooms in a single hotel makes it so much more useful/practical/survivable than Lotusphere (your legs won't be aching from running all over Disney to get to sessions and your mind won't be fried from trying to decide between which of 15 simultaneous sessions to go to at any time ;-).
If I was going to design the perfect technical conference, this would be it!
That is what I am saying!
See peeps? IamLUG, iamLUG, iamLUG!