Tell Your Story at Alfresco DevCon 2011: A Call for Papers

In my Community Vision & Plan presentation I talked about ways you can take your Alfresco community participation to the next level. One of those ways is to share your Alfresco story with others. DevCon is the perfect place to do that. So I want to invite you to come to DevCon and wow us with a kickass talk on an Alfresco-related topic.

There are some really cool things going on out there with the Alfresco platform and those stories need to be told. Maybe you’ve recently rolled out a content-centric solution on the Alfresco platform and you’ve got some great lessons learned you’d like to share. Or perhaps you’ve created a cool Alfresco add-on and you want to show it off. It could be that you’ve been working with the Alfresco platform for a while and you’re the perfect person to explain a piece of it to the rest of us. Whatever the case may be, I know I speak for the rest of the community when I say we want to hear your story.

Getting your session idea reviewed for possible inclusion is actually pretty easy. All you have to do is fill out the Alfresco DevCon Abstract Submission form by 08/22/2011. The form asks for the following:

• Session Title
• Session Track
• San Diego, London, or Both
• Technical Level (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced)
• What You’re Going to Talk About
• Why You’re the Best Person to Give this Talk
• Name & Email

This is open to all members of our community, regardless of your relationship to Alfresco or the edition of the product you are using. Submissions are judged on creativity, relevance, interest-level in the topic for our audience, and speaker background.

We’ve got a lot of ground to cover during DevCon and we’re limited by space and time. I anticipate some tough decisions as we lay out the agenda. Don’t be offended if you don’t get picked. If your session does get picked, I can’t pay for your travel and living expenses, but I will comp your main conference registration fee, so that’s something. Plus, you’ll be taking your community contributions to the next level and that’s huge for both you and the community.

We set the bar high last year in terms of quality of content. If the community steps up I think we’ll do it again.

Anyway, give it some thought and then get your abstract submitted. I’m looking forward to hearing your story at DevCon 2011.