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In a previous post, I wrote about putting together a barcamp-like event after the GeekSpeak Live session on the second day of Citrix Synergy. We have approval now to extend GeekSpeak Live with these additional sessions. It looks like we will have one large space (up to 80 people) and five or so other small spaces for small discussions. We plan to have food (likely pizza, soft drinks and beer) and shirts for all attendees. We hope to have at least four 30-40 minute blocks for sessions, which means 20 or more sessions.
Now, we need session speakers. Anyone can sign up who is attending the Synergy event. You can speak about any IT topic you would like. The only rules are it must be an in depth technical topic (not a product or marketing pitch). This is open to attendees, customers, alliances partners, resellers, Citrix Technology Professionals and Citrix employees. Any one attending the Citrix Synergy event is eligible to speak and attend.
I am working with Vishal Ganeriwala (who runs the CDN) to create a wiki page for session sign up. Once we have the schedule finalized, we will post the new wiki page and the speaker sign up. If you have an idea for a topic but do not feel comfortable presenting it yourself, please post it in the comments or email me at citrixblogger @ citrix.com . We will post any topics ideas we receive on the wiki (once it is up) and here on the Official Citrix Blog.
The goal for GeekSpeak Live is to get a wider range of technical topics and to give you the chance to participate in creating the content for the event. Share your experiences and lessons learned with everyone at GeekSpeak, and we can all learn something new and useful.
You can click here to register for Citrix Synergy.
Comments (2)
Apr 18, 2008
Anonymous says:
If citrix is able to actually pull this off, this will be one of the smartest th...If citrix is able to actually pull this off, this will be one of the smartest things you have ever done at one of your conferences. I love this idea. I NEVER expected a ultra conservative company like citrix to do this kind of thing. This looks like real community content with no marketing spin, just hard core geek stuff according to this post. That is what a real barcamp is, anyway. Barcamps are awesome events. it was getting harder and harder to justify iforum for me, because oif the serious decrease in tech content. It is just hard to believe citrix would make this big of a change...
If I am reading this right, it is not even limited to citrix products (is it?). You must have changed the people who control iforum, or spiked their drinks. I still find it hard to believe citrix would do this. Let anybody speak about any tech topic at a citrix show? I am really skeptical that this will actually turn out the way it sounds. But if it does, I will be really jazzed about it. It would be a heck of alot easier to justify the cost and time of going to iforum for me.
Apr 18, 2008
Barry Flanagan says:
We are making a conscious effort to provide much more technical content at this ...We are making a conscious effort to provide much more technical content at this year's conference. GeekSpeak Live will give you a chance to hear from several of the CTP's and from other thought leaders in the industry. This extension of GeekSpeak will give you a chance to get more technical content from a broader range of people, beyond what you have seen in the past at a Citrix event. I firmly believe the two formats combined together will make this a very valuable addition to the conference line up.
The key will be to get members of the community to step up to the plate to speak. That is the big risk. I am hoping that the line "If you build it, they will come" holds true for this event as well. If you see value in this, we are hoping many others as well.
I look forward to seeing your session topic submission!
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