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A month of travel
Read more »: A month of travelThe last couple of weeks I’ve had another bout of traveling to conferences. I’ve been lucky this time: all three events were absolutely amazing! First I went to the Google Summer of Code Mentors’ Summit in California, followed by Wordcamp Bucharest and finally to Tokyo for the annual Plone Conf. GSoC Mentor’s Summit GSoC is…
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World Usability Congress 2018
Read more »: World Usability Congress 2018In the middle of October, I went to Graz to attend World Usability Congress. This conference first started 10 years ago and even though it’s not a huge one (around 450 attendees), it attracts designers, managers and product owners from all over the world. It was my first time there and I’m pleased to say…
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GopherConUK
Read more »: GopherConUKWhile part of the dev team was still on EuroPython, Janez and I were packing to go to this year’s Go conference in London. This was a first Go conference for me, so naturally, I enjoyed it a lot. The vibe was similar to those old Plone/Python conferences back around 2010. Lots of very smart…
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PyConWeb 2018
Read more »: PyConWeb 2018PyConWeb is an international Python Web conference held in Munich. Its main purpose is to talk about Web tools and techniques to make the Web even more awesome. Attending this conference really feels different from the other non-German conferences. The conference is organised and prepared with German precision. Everything was taken care of and the only…
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LTV Conf, May 2018, London
Read more »: LTV Conf, May 2018, LondonI love going to conferences in London because it is one of the rare cities I have a direct connection to. We were invited to this one and being a small SaaS conference with great speakers lined up it was a no-brainer. I only wrote notes for the two talks that impact our business the…
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Conference hiatus is over
Read more »: Conference hiatus is overBack in the day when Niteo was still a consulting company I had to do a lot of traveling to find and do work. And to attend conferences. I loved to go to conferences. But being away so much, in boring hotel rooms and eating out every day took a toll on my (mental) health so…
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SaaStock, September 2017, Dublin
Read more »: SaaStock, September 2017, DublinThis was one of my first conferences outside the Internet Marketing industry and I mostly went to it to expand my horizons and see what successful SaaS companies are doing. Coming from a bootstrapped and ROI-focused background, what struck me as strange was the definition of success (or at least a path to success) for…
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Lessons Learned from PyMunich 2016
Read more »: Lessons Learned from PyMunich 2016At the end of October there was a Python conference in Munich (PyMunich). For a regional conference it was quite big in my opinion. There were 3 tracks and more then 40 speakers. As always I won’t cover all the talks just the ones that I found the most interesting and educational. After all this…
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Writing The Docs – Prague 2016
Read more »: Writing The Docs – Prague 2016On September 19th and 20th Write the Docs Meeting took place in Prague. This year I had the pleasure to attend. More than 250 people came which is about 40% more compared to last year. On my surprise the majority of the people were actual tech writers or ‘documentarians’ as they called themselves (well there…