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This year’s Engine Summit, the online conference for ExpressionEngine, takes place on May 29th. The conference was announced in the latest EllisLab email newsletter.
Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in and for an all-new, one day online conference, the Engine Summit 2012! Bring the experts to your desktop on May 29, 2012 from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
This year Engine Summit includes sessions with ExpressionEngine experts Emily Lewis, Lea Alcantara, Mark Huot, Joel Bradbury, an EE Reactor member Erik Reagan. There will also be a Round Table discussion lead by EllisLab CEO Leslie Camacho.
Tickets for May’s online conference are on sale now.
EECI updated everyone via Twitter today that tickets for the event in Leiden go on sale tomorrow (March 27th) 10 AM (GMT +1).
There are only 40 early bird tickets available at €275 + tax.
Today Whoooz Web Media announced that the next installment of EECI in the United States will take place in the great city of Austin, TX.
Here’s an exerpt from the announcement:
Your favorite ExpressionEngine conference will be in Texas this year. 12th - 14th November we’ll be at the Hilton Downtown Austin for a brand new EECI. We’ve listened very careful to all your feedback and wishes, so we think this year will be big and bigger. That’s why we choose Texas.
Tickets will go on sale in two weeks and on April 4th the EECI US website will be launched.
Get ready because Austin is wonderful in the Fall.
This tweet says it all:
This year’s version of EECI is on the drawing board and in about a month we should know what city it will be and maybe the beginnings of a speaker lineup.
Where do you want the conference to be and who would you like to see speak?
Last week I was in Philadelphia and was so preoccupied with a large project that things were slow around here. Because of that I neglected to post about the ExpressionEngine party at SXSW Interactive this year.
Fortunately, it’s going to be fun and sponsored by a bunch of great EE community companies (like my very own Mijingo). Unfortunately, the attendance list has already reached capacity. There might be a chance that they open it up again so stay tuned to We Are Paper Tiger twitter feed for announcements and be sure to add your name to the waitlist.
See you at SXSW in March!
Just announced today is the good news that the annual EECI conference will be back this year and both in Europe and in the US.
EECI - the premier ExpressionEngine conference - will be back twice this year. End of May we hit EECI hometown Leiden in The Netherlands for the European event and this time we focus on development.
Early November we’ll move the show to the US. The city is not chosen yet, but somewhere down the line Minneapolis - San Antonio is where we will be with a brand new edition of EECI US.
So, there you have it. Two shows, one giant ocean apart. EE Insider is currently dispatching our team of lobbyists to ensure the US version of the EECI conference is held in the great city of Austin this coming November.
Stay tuned to eeciconf.com for updates on location, speakers and tickets.
Tomorrow, the final An Event Apart of the year wraps up and leaves behind some amazing talks. I attended the conference in October in Washington, D.C. and, as expected, I was treated to some passionate individuals sharing great information.
If you haven’t attended the conference this year, one of the best places to go for conference talk notes is Luke Wroblewski’s website. Luke speaks at many AEAs and takes compact, thoughtful (and bullet-listed) notes on the other talks.
In his archives, you can see all of the AEA notes he’s written. Go through, find your favorite topics and then read through the notes.
Mitchell wrote up a summary of his EECI 2011 talk in a blog post at Solspace. He correctly observes the important position of web designers and developer: we are an important part of the process and critical to it. We hold some power.
How is it that we hold the power? An example helps to explain and convince. In our past, Solspace has served political consultants. The vast majority of projects that we did with these political professionals were consistent with our own politics and ethics. However, one or two slipped through. I realized too late, a couple of times, that we had enabled the wrong message. We had supported the wrong side of an election. We had allowed the power and the money to put down legislation that would have helped The People. We had the power to walk away from the job. And if all web developers had also walked away, the message would not have made it into the world. The People would have been better off. This is the power we hold. We’re the gatekeepers now.
Mitchell is one of the oldest (not in terms of his age) members of the community so he certainly has experience doing great work and important projects to share with us. But regardless of whether Mitchell is part of the EE community or any other community, he is the source of wisdom for people in our profession.
I have two favorite episodes of the EE Podcast when I was co-hosting: the interview with Rick Ellis and the interview with Mitchell Kimbrough. Give it a listen.
The speakers at EECI have been linking to their slides on Twitter and there have been a couple of collections popping up.
Jason Siffring put together an EECI Cheat Sheet that contains links to all of the presentation slides that are available, including related information like blog posts. Very, very cool.
Sean Smith also put together a list of slide links in the EE Forums. Because of past “pruning episodes” at the EE Forums, it’s not a reliable place long term for information to be stored, so be sure to bookmark the compilation by Siffring. Below I’ve also listed out the slides, too. Thanks to the speakers for publishing their slides and for everyone who helped compile them.
Are you going to EECI? If so, you should be using the new EECI Event Guide made by Eric Miller Design and EE Coder.
The guide has three different components: a map of attendee locations, tweets by attendees and a stream of photos, slideshare and videos (youtube, vimeo) from the #eeci2011 hash tag. Check it out: http://eecieventguide.com/
Nice work!
Ian Ebden, the organizer of last week’s EEUK11, wrote a great narrative of his experience organizing and hosting the conference. The take-away? Organizing a conference can be stressful but watching the speakers deliver great talks made it all worth it. Congrats to Ian for going from design to conference organizer and making it all work!
As a long-time EE Pro Network developer, I was proud (and a little nervous) to have organised and hosted it. I suppose it’s one way I can give back to a community and organisation (EllisLab) that have given me so much. Either way, here is my account of EEUK11.
Having thoroughly enjoyed trips out to EECI in The Netherlands the last two years, I was disappointed to hear there would be no European ExpressionEngine conference this autumn. Foolishly, I tweeted the idea of a UK EE meet-up this summer, and the response was immediate and very enthusiastic – along with cries of “let us know when you’ve sorted it out.” Ah. Oh dear.
Ian isn’t sure if he’ll do it all again next year but maybe if others join in to help him plan it, we can convince him to do EEUK12.
Read Ian’s entire write-up on his site: EEUK11 is a Wrap
Last Friday, August 26th, was the first EEUK, which took place in Manchester. The one-day conference, organized by Ian Ebden, featured seven speakers:
- Carl Crawley
- Joel Bradbury
- John Henry Donovan
- Leslie Flinger
- Stephen Lewis
- Lodewijk Schutte
- Garrett Winder
and almost 75 attendees. Check out the photostream of Flickr for photos of the event.
I’m trying to track down speaker slides and conferences write-ups, so if you’ve seen one or written one, let me knokw so I can share it with everyone.
Conference Notes by Simon Cox
Simox Cox took excellent, detailed notes of the talks and shared them on his blog. Simon also posted his own photos of the event (they’re at the bottom of his post).
Thanks, Simon!
Conference Notes by Rob Allen
Rob also wrote up his experience at the conference and included some photos (the empty cookie trays were a big tell). Thanks, Rob!
101 Ways to Skin a Cat
by Joel Bradbury
Joel spoke on design patterns in ExpressionEngine and posted his slides from his talk. Joel also shared a graph from an informal survey on the add-ons people use in their default builds. Unsurprisingly, the two top spots are occupied by Pixel & Tonic’s Matrix and Playa, respectively.
Structuring Your #eecms Build
by Carl Crawley
Carl talked about “structuring and creating a default ExpressionEngine build.” Ah, yes, an excellent topic. A lot of us already do this but it’s always good to see how someone else handles their default builds. There is always something to learn. A nice tip from Carl’s slides was to move the config files (config.php and database.php) out of the system/config directory and into an assets folder.
Forthcoming are slides on the part of his talk where he covered upgrade scripts.
Going Mobile
by Garrett Winder
Garrett is a font-end developer at Erskine Design. Wait, he’s also a Texan? Come back, Garrett! Okay, I digress.
Garrett gave his talk on “tips, techniques and tactics” for implementing mobile sites with ExpressionEngine. He covered the current state of mobile (the numbers, they don’t lie), what this means and then, finally, how you can use EE to help you, including some nice code tips for configuring your EE install to support a mobile site.
Garrett did a short recap and posted his slides on his website.
I’ll update this post as more slides and talks are posted.
Update: See Ian’s wrap-up on the conference he planned.
If you’ve been following the DesignKarma twitter stream, you’ll already know that they’ve been slowly announcing the speaker topics for the August 26th ExpressionEngine conference in Manchester, UK.
Here’s what you can learn at the conference:
- Design Patterns in EE with Joel Bradbury
- Faceted Navigation Techniques with John Henry Donovan
- Commercial Add-on Development for Clients with Stephen Lewis
- Parse Order with Lodewijk Schutte
- Setting up the Optimal EE Configuration with Carl Crawley
- Going Mobile with Jamie Pittock
There is still time to register for the conference (it only costs £99), to meet other members of the community and listen to the talks. Get all of the details at their website: EEUK Conference 201
According to a tweet from EECI, there will be “around 25” more tickets released next Monday (June 20th) at 1 PM EDT.
There’s only one EECI conference this year and the ticket prices are affordable. Here’s your chance to get in while there’s more space available.
Get more information about the conference (including the speaker list) from the official conference website.
In an announcement at the Engine Summit online conference and conveyed via Twitter by Marcus Neto to everyone else, ExpressionEngine 2.2 is expected to be released on June 22, 2011. This is about 11 months after the previous 2.1 release (with several smaller releases in-between).
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