In keeping with our community feel approach

We've come to a decision on how we will do future conferences. Those of you who have registered or have looked into registering have seen that the price is $360.00, the conference is 360|Flex and the company is 360|Conferences. Notice a trend? Well, our next change follows the trend. You can read about it here, but the jist is this.

Future 360Conferences events will be limited to 360 attendees. As conferences go, that's small. Smaller in fact than 360|Flex San Jose was. Seattle has a bit larger capacity since we set the capacity before this change, but all future events will be 360, including speakers.

Why? Because community is important to us, because a conference of 2,000 people has no community feel, because there's no way to meet 2,000 plus people in just a few days. That's why.

What does this mean to you? Buy your 360|Flex Seattle ticket soon, because we may change our mind on that one too. =) Also, remember, there will be no more 360|Flex love until 08 sometime and even then it's only going to have 360 attendees.

Plus, like we mention on this other post, we'll be giving Alumni first dibs on tickets next time. If you're serious about Flex and serious about participating in this growing community, you better sign up and quick.

Bringing the team? Not only do we have the team discount...

For those who are planning to make a department outing to Seattle (there are far worse places for department outings), we know it's a pain in the ass to have to pay by paypal with larger chunks of money. $360.00, not so bad, $360.00 x 4+ that's a lot of coin to run through a credit card or paypal account. So for you, we accept company checks.

If you're bringing 4 or more to the conference, just email info@360flex.com and let us know, we'll hook you up, and I don't mean in the gold tooth with a diamond in the center, but if you want... I know a guy...

Flex User Group Member? In June you could win a free pass to 360|Flex

You read that (rather long) title right. In June, Flex User Groups, around the globe, the globe!! will be raffling off two free passes to 360|Flex Seattle.

This raffle is open to anyone in attendance at their June Flex User Group meeting, so make sure you RSVP for June. In addition to great networking and great speakers, your Flex User Group is now offering you a chance to hang with the best, in Seattle!

Each User Group will hold it's raffle, and send us the names and email addresses of the winners. We in turn will email the winners a registration code for a free pass. It's that simple, and unlike those 'Win this car' booths at the mall, we're legit :) Already bought your ticket? No worries, we'll issue you a refund.

Why are we doing this? 360|Conferences is devoted to building up tech communities and what better way for us to help than to have this raffle. Go find your local Flex User group and get active. Not sure if there's a User Group in your area? Look and see. Maybe you need to start one?

T-Shirts and stickers, what more could you ask for?

Does your laptop look like mine? And no I don't mean a Dell logo in the center, I mean covered in stic kers that represent your interests. We're working on getting Tom converted too.

If you like stickers you'll like this. Thanks to Doug McCune we've got an awesome image that will not only be a sticker for your laptop, but will be on our official 360|Flex t-shirts.

We're going to make enough stickers for everyone so don't worry, plus we're making sure there's more Flex rune stickers from Ted Patrick, and as many other sponsors as would like to provide stickers. Can there ever be too many stickers? I mean really, can there be?

We got yer Adobe, right 'ere!

People are asking, "Where's Adobe?" in regards to sponsorship and support. They're here, you see that "Fx" rune? Who owns that? Adobe. They just wanted to pimp http://flex.org rather than http://adobe.com.

Ted Patrick will be delivering another killer keynote! There's another Adobe party in the mix for Tuesday night. The Flex team will be representing as is evident by the speaker list. And once again, if you stay in the Red Lion Hotel, you can expect some Adobe sponsored goodies awaiting your arrival in the welcome package.

Adobe loves it's community. It's here to support you and make sure you have a good time. They were essential to the success of the first 360|Flex and this time will be no different.

Most of y'all seemed to understand the little logo mix up, but a few of you were confused. We hope this helps clear things up. =)

Speaker-to-Session List

Here's a sneak peak of our speakers and their sessions. More fleshed out descriptions and a schedule will be forthcoming. However, we wanted to give you all a sneak peak of what's to come. Register now because as word spreads about the speakers and sessions, the slots are going to start filling very quickly.

The list is broken down by Tracks. To find out more about the speakers, feel free to click on their blog link and research them. See you in August!

Click Here for a PDF of the working schedule

Component Development

Custom Flex component development. - Doug McCune
Advanced Charting - Brendan Meutzner
Skinning and Styling - Andy McIntosh
How to create a theme - Juan Sanchez
User Experiences Using Alternate Navigation and Command Gestures. - Tony Hillerson
ByteArray202 - Ben Stucki
DryerFox: Coming to Apollo/Flex from C++ - Doug Schmidt
Mapping Components - Mansour Raad
Basic Charting - Rob Rusher
TBD - Karl Johnson


Application Development

Practical Patterns in Flex - James Echmalian
Flex and the Logging framework - Renaun Erickson
Introduction to Cairngorm - Greg Hamer
Memory Management for Flex/Apollo Developers - Jun Heider
Flex Framework nitty grity - Deepa Subramaniam
Deep Linking in Flex Apps - Sim Bateman
Harass the Flex PM - Matt Chotin
Buzzword, how'd they build that? - David Coletta
Flex Builder Debugger - Mike Morearty
FlexBuilder Secrets - David Zuckerman
Aftermix and Building in Flex with Java Developers - Brian Deitte
Design Eye for the Dev Guy - Aaron Adams
Building a World-Class RIA Development Team - Dave Wolf

Integration

Flex and Scorpio - Ben Forta
Flex and Ruby - Sim Bateman
Project Artemis: Accessing Devices and Processes in Apollo - Adam Flater
Eyejot: System Architecture and infrastructure - Daryn Nakhuda
Understanding Flex-able Flash Video for Web & Desktop - David Hassoun
Building Stunning Flex Apps with Flex Builder and CS3 - George Comninos
WebORB: Fully explained - Mark Piller
Working with .NET in Flex/Apollo - Harris Reynolds
Programmatic Visualization - Andrew Trice

Classroom (Hands-On) Track

Flex 101: Get up to speed on Flex Basics - Matt Boles
Creating custom components - Jeffry Houser
Building apollo applications - Ben Lucyk

Announcing our Sponsors

360|Flex San Jose was a huge success because of our sponsors and 360|Flex Seattle will be no different. The sponsors offset costs to the attendees by providing goodies such as food, schwag and beer. =) Be sure to thank them when you see them walking around the conference.

There are still sponsorship opportunities available. If you would like to join these top notch sponsors, drop us a line at: info@360flex.com

Without further ado, here are our sponsors.

Presented in conjuction with:

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Look for these sponsors in your welcome packet and on the conference CD.