The Russian branch of Microsoft issued a message stating that on May 28 it will hold a conference for developers - DevCon 2011. And - exit ( in the suburbs, with nochovkoy ), and, according to some reports, a large-scale - up to 1,000 participants.
Already have a preliminary program, registration is ( part paid, of course) -.
http://www. microsoft. com / ru-ru / events / devcon /. On this occasion I have, including as the ' veterans ' movement - an active participant DevCon'ov mid-90s in Obninsk and lotusovskoy DevCon'2001 in Las Vegas ), there are a few questions and, in general, thinking.
Actually there are two main issues:.
Why would it? .
How are they going to do all this? .
Here we must recall the DevCon'y 90 ( let's leave lotusovskuyu - it is ' another story ').
I think it is with them when MS started large-scale events in Russia ( 300-500 people - this is serious ). Please note - to communicate with the developers!.
Actually, the first tusovka with the name was, it seems the fall of 1994, it was a collection of FoxPro, organized by Dmitri Artemov. Why start with this? . In the course of an explanation can be found in this sentence from my article about DevCon97 (.
http://www. pcweek. ru / themes / detail. php? ID = 42527. ).
Place [ Obninsk ] meeting is not accidental: in the early 90s there were meetings of the club members Cliiper- programmers running time of the famous JV ... And when you consider that the Obninsk - the ... (However, in respect of domestic bad: close to the capital, but not in it, there is a beach on the river Protva, but it is necessary to go three kilometers - much closer to the workshop. ). By the way, is already being discussed FoxClub upcoming DevCon11 (.
http://forum. foxclub. ru / read. php? 43,222102,228595, quote = 1. ).
In June 1995, has held a full-scale conference on the full range of development tools, which rudders Jura Tomashko. I was invited there as a ' special guest ' (still not a journalist ) - Basic- as a representative of the public. And even they did report, for which, unexpectedly, was (like other speakers ), a fee of....
Actually, it was very, very interesting. And in content and in form and communication....
By the way, there should be mention of one is almost as significant and interesting event - ' Festival of Microsoft', who spent several years in Repino ( near St. Petersburg ) ' Astrosoft ' in sotruzhestve with MS.
In the following years DevCon has received the status of the main activities of MS in Russia ( Moscow and priezhal leaders and foreign visitors ). It should be clarified, but it seems like the last time the conference was held in 97 (just had), possibly in the 98th.
And then it was replaced ( at the same time, but with a different name - you can remember ) conference, which in my opinion was the prototype of ' Platform '. She went once or twice (? ) In -house otduhe ' Olympian ' (near Airport). So it was all boring....
All these activities clearly reflect the ongoing changes in the market.
Including the fact that the topic of software development has to go to the front end somewhere farther and farther away... It began with a field of view of media, including media and IT....
In short, the ' software development ' - this has long been a world of publicity. Of course, he lives, such as developing. But how to live and how to develop - I personally do not really know.
By the way, they already had one attempt at ' revival ' - at the end of June 2006 in the same ' Olympian ' was dvuhnevnaya WebDevCon ( again, I personally invited - for old times' sake ). By the way, turned out a good article:.
http://www. pcweek. ru / themes / detail. php? ID = 72920. But the continuation is not followed.
And suddenly - DevCon 2011!.
So I repeat my questions:.
Why would it? .
How are they going to do all this?.
After all, as you know, ' you can not enter into one stream of water twice'....