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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!
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.
If you haven’t been following along, the next ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference takes place in Brooklyn, New York. Today (Feb 17 2011), the early bird tickets will go on sale. There are 200 tickets available at a cost of $250 each (which is a steal for a conference).
The conference website is still sparse as of this posting but it should be updated soon with a list of speakers and topics.
Learn more at the conference website or by following their Twitter stream.
The EECI 2011 Conference website is starting to show some life! Finally the 2010 site is gone, replaced with little more than a placeholder for 2011. You can sign up to stay updated by entering in your email address.
EECI 2011 will be 19 - 21 October, 2011 at The Invisible Dog Art Centre, Brooklyn, NY.
Are you planning on coming? I hope to see you there!
The speaker lineup for EECI2011 in New York was published to the ExpressionEngine blog this week. These are the results from the Call for Papers that EllisLab issued in early November. I’m very excited to be a part of this list. Here’s the full list of speakers:
As you can see this is a great mix of people. EECI2011 is October 19-21 in New York City. On her blog post, Leslie mentioned the full website for the conference, with speakers, topics, and details will be up in January of 2011.
Remember earlier this month when we told you about the Call for Papers for EECI 2011? Well the deadline is here, and if you have been putting off writing up a proposal, you need to get on it and submit that brilliant idea today. Robert Eerhart tweeted yesterday that he’s received a lot of good proposals, so it sounds like there is some great fodder for next year’s EECI.
If you want yours in the mix, you better act fast! Check out Leslie’s post for the details.
Leslie Doherty posted on the ExpressionEngine blog that they are already gearing up for EECI2011. They are taking a different approach to getting speakers than they have done in the past:
We’re taking applications for speaking topics. You’ll have the chance to give us input in what topics you’d like to hear as well as offer to speak, or suggest a speaker, and help shape the ExpressionEngine/CodeIgniter event of the year!
She includes a list of suggested topics and encourages submitting your own. If you have some good ideas and a bit of speaking chops than definitely apply. If you have some ideas about what should be talked about, then send them in!
Information about how to submit your ideas is all in the post.
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