Each year, DotNetNuke Corporation gathers engineers, developers, designers, and many others whose work involve in Microsoft ASP.NET platform in one of the biggest events called OpenForce™. The purpose is to share knowledge and experience among professionals as well as networking opportunities with experts worldwide.
A few months ago DotNetNuke Corporation called for speakers to present at the annual North American conference in Vegas, I submitted my proposal with multiple topics surrounding DotNetNuke UI design, Skinning, and Web Standards.
I’ve been busy with work for the past few months and then off on a vacation to visit family all the way in the Pacific Rim area; therefore; I haven’t had any chance to update the information regarding OpenForce ’08 in Las Vegas. Well, here it is.
DevConnections updated their web site with detail information about the speakers and sessions. You can view the list of speakers this year here and the keynote sessions here. This might help in preparing for the trip in advance and see what you would like to learn in this conference.
One thing I notice is that there’s no easy access to the OpenForce microsite, you have to navigate to it using the entire URL (http://devconnections/openforce). It’s not easy for people to find.
I was excited a few months back when I got an e-mail from Joe Brinkman about being selected as a speaker for OpenForce ’08. But the good news doesn’t end there. Last week, I was informed that I’d be presenting with the creator of the DotNetNuke project, Shaun Walker, after the conference in Vegas on November 14th.
It’s official that we, Shaun Walker, Joe Brinkman, my very good friend—Chris Hammond, and I are joining together to present the best practices in DotNetNuke 5.0 this November in Vegas. In recent announcement from DotNetNuke, Engage Software, an Official DotNetNuke Training Provider, and DotNetNuke Corporation has partnered to offer the community with the best practices in one of the major releases of DotNetNuke. At this Post-Conference Workshop, not only you will have a chance to learn the best practices in DotNetNuke 5.0, but you also learn from the project creator himself. So go ahead and check on the Post-Conference Workshop option when you register for OpenForce to get the inside scoops from the team.
Landed to Vegas safe and sound yesterday. The team went to get some drinks at the Border Grill at TheHOTEL and met with many DotNetNuke professionals around the country. I was pretty excited to meet with those guys in person since we can only communicate online when they all reside in so many different places. We all had a good time!
After having a few drinks, we went to the exhibit hall to get some update about the booth graphic and got our hands dirty to set it up.
Chris decided to set up a time lapse video so we can see how progresses.
Thanks everyone who came to my sessions at OpenForce in las Vegas this year. I hope you all learned a lot from all the sessions you attended at the conference. If you have any questions or suggestions specifically about my sessions, feel free to let drop a line here.
I know Tracy Wittenkeller did a great job on his two sessions about building DotNetNuke web site and designing HTML skins which are very helpful to beginners. It’s great to see so many DotNetNuke newbie at such event.
You can view and download the presentations I posted at SlideShare. Feel free to grab a copy and ask any questions you may have.