CiviCRM Affinity Group and Bootcamp at NTC

Dave Greenberg sent this to the civicrm-dev list, but I don't see it in the blog so I'm posting his message here. -- Judy Hallman If you're attending (or thinking about attending) NTEN's Non-profit Technology Conference in New Orleans this March - check out these CiviCRM related happenings... ******************************************************** Developer Bootcamp - March 18-19 in New Orleans ******************************************************** If you're a developer / integrator who wants to learn more about the inner-workings of CiviCRM AND you're planning on attending NTC in New Orleans in March - we're holding a developer bootcamp on March 18-19 (prior to NTC). The bootcamps are oriented around "learning-by-doing" - so we encourage each participant to bring in a CiviCRM-related project to work on. Topics / projects may include: * review of code architecture and schema * CiviCRM forms - building, validation, processing * creating custom search interfaces * using the APIs * working on a "pet" enhancement for core More details can be found here. You can register for this Bootcamp by sending an email to dave at civicrm dot org. Please include a brief description of your background and what you'd be interested in focusing on during the sessions. ************************* CiviCRM Affinity Group ************************* Judy Hallman is organizing a CiviCRM Affinity Group meeting in conjunction with the 2008 NTC Conference in New Orleans: http://www.nten.org/ntc The conference runs from March 19 - 21, and the Affinity Group is scheduled for Wednesday, March 19 at 10:30am in room Gallier B. This is a great way to meet other CiviCRM users, share experiences and tips, ask questions and create connections. Judy has posted a draft agenda for the session - feel free to add your suggestions at: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,2057.msg8960.html#msg8960 If you're planning on attending, please add your name to the signup sheet on the wiki, so we can get an idea of who / how many people are going to be there. http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/x/LIBH -- Best regards, Dave Greenberg CiviCRM Team

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This group is scheduled for the same time as the Day Of Service. I'm really looking forward to those service projects, and I think it's a wonderful thing for the conference to be doing, but I'd like to attend the affinity group as well. Is anyone else interested in doing both? If so is there any chance of maybe an early morning or early evening casual CiviCRM get-together? I know scheduling conflicts plague every conference -- just wondered if there'd be enough interest to warrant a second, unofficial get-together.

I've also blogged about our presence at NTEN. So we might get a few more people at either of those meetings. We can confirm a time/place the week before NTEN.