Well, Canada turns 141 years old today and as we all know, 141 is the Conference anniversary. So in keeping with that, registration is now open for the alt.net Canada Open Spaces Extravaganza . Get your requests in early because only the first 100 will be allowed in and at the time of writing, over 10...

Many thanks to Sebastian Lambla for inviting me to the alt.net London beers this past Tuesday evening. It was a fun evening and if you are in the London area, I'd recommend checking out future meetings. This was the second night out and they have plans to run it every month in the second or third...

It's been a busy couple of weeks on the ALT.NET front . Here's the run-down: Jeremy Miller has the back page of this month's MSDN magazine where he does a great job of describing ALT.NET and filling in some of the background for people that might be new to the idea. Oh, and, thanks for the...

Things are loading up for 2008, so it's time for everyone's favorite "where I'll be over the next six months post." Tonight (yeah, tonight ) I'm going to be given a very early version of a new talk called Planned Agility?! at the Philly ALT.NET group . If you're in town...

The title pretty much says it all. Registration is open! If you were contacted by one or more of the organizers, we have a special code for you that lets you bypass general registration. Otherwise it's limited to the first 100 or so people that get in (we had about 50 invites). You will need an OpenID...

Quick heads up: we're not complete with the details, but we're well into planning an ALT.NET Open Spaces event to be held in Redmond, WA. We're upping the seats to 150 and, yes, it's still free and first come, first served. Registration opens early February. Keep a look out at the event...

Rob Reynolds offers a valuable perspective on the whole how do you define ALT.NET riff in his "What's Your ALT.NET?" post: Passion . I love what I do and I get very passionate about it. I love to argue about the best way to go about architecting a system, learn things from others and teach...

I saw something about breaking up the altnetconf Yahoo list and would like to propose an initial structure. To be clear: the purpose of this proposal is to address two questions about the current list: 1) Should we break up the list? 2) If yes, how should we break it up. So here's my proposal: List...

I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural meeting of the Philly ALT.NET meeting yesterday. It's a convenient (~1 Hour) train ride to Philadelphia from New York City, so I really had no excuse not to attend and I was interested in the subject being presented. Brian Donahue founded the group as...

I'm sitting on a plane, traveling (late) to Remix Boston and mulling over the ALT.NET Open Spaces conference. It was a great experience that exceeded my expectations by a mile. Here's my (long-winded and roughly-cut, sorry) perspective on events: Brass Tacks The people attending made it a really...