Virtual Surreality
It’s too real to be true

JoshG is a busy bee:

• Australian Architecture Forum 2008 (Melbourne May 16 & Sydney May 19): Final keynote (with Richard Durnall and Jim Webber respectively)
• JAOO Australia 2008 (Brisbane May 28-30 & Sydney June 2-4): organising
• Enterprise 2.0 (Boston June 9-12): attending
• Agile 2008 (Toronto August 4-8): speaking

If you are a software technologist in Australia, I strongly encourage you to attend JAOO Australia as it is arguably the best technical conference in the world and it is certainly a boon to have it come to our neck of the woods. We are getting some superb international speakers that you’ll be able to interact with throughout the conference (they stay around at JAOO to learn too), and the more we support it, the more we’ll get next year.

UPDATE: 4 continents now represented. I’m not sure that we’ll ever get Antarctica, but come on South America and Africa, I know you’re out there.

Calling all Agile and Lean user groups around the world.

If you have an online presence, particularly with one of the usual online group sites, I encourage you to add it to the worldwide meetup alliance.

The purpose of the Agile meetup alliance is to allow Agile Alliance user groups around the world to collaborate on events and to help those who travel to meet up with like-minded software professional wherever they are.

http://www.meetupalliance.com/agilealliance/

Of course, make sure you sign up to the Agile Alliance too!

Looking forward to adding your user group.

I’m chairing next week’s Ark Group conference on SOA (Achieving Interoperability in Systems Architecture) at the Vibe Hotel in North Sydney, Australia.

You can download the conference brochure here. My ThoughtWorks colleague Halvard Skogsrud and I are presenting the workshop entitled “Bearing the standards of interoperability”.