London Tester Gathering dates for your calendar
London Tester Gathering - Weds 6th April - Shooting Star
Sponsor and guest: Michael Bolton
http://events.linkedin.com/London-Tester-Gathering-Weds-6th-April/pub/539524
London Tester Gathering - Thurs 5th May - Mozilla evening
Sponsor and guest: Mozilla Testers
http://events.linkedin.com/London-Tester-Gathering-Thurs-5th-May/pub/601378
London Tester Gathering 2 Days of Free Workshops
2 days of free workshops and talks.
Sign up here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-testing/london-tester-gathering-2011
Programme here: http://bit.ly/fpF2nr
LI event here: http://events.linkedin.com/London-Tester-Gathering-2-Days-Workshops/pub/545939
London Tester Gathering - Tues 17th May - Shooting Star
http://events.linkedin.com/London-Tester-Gathering-Tues-17th-May/pub/587090
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Monday, 21 March 2011
WTF? I've organised a testing conference. How'd that happen? Part 2.
So the next step is for your wife to tell you that you're actually on holiday on the date you've chosen.
Speak the Skillsmatter and set another date.
Decide that if you are going to do it it'll be free.
Start mentioning the workshops idea to people and ask around to see who is interested in running one. Utilise what you have available, Twitter, Linkedin, Meetup, your contacts, etc.
Start mentioning that sponsorship would be nice.
Expect a whole lot of none responses as you're asking for money and no (direct) money will be made from this and people will have to give up their own time.
Receive a whole lot of responses and realise that your original idea of 3 rooms running parallel is now blown out the window as you've heard a lot of really interesting workshop ideas and you:
a. Want to attend them all
b. Are quite sure a lot of other people will want to attend them.
Start 'advertising' the workshops.
Speak to Skillsmatter and hear the good news that there are more rooms available so you now have 5 rooms.
Start chasing up workshop descriptions - Start this as early as possible, it'll take longer than you think.
Speak the Skillsmatter and set another date.
Decide that if you are going to do it it'll be free.
Start mentioning the workshops idea to people and ask around to see who is interested in running one. Utilise what you have available, Twitter, Linkedin, Meetup, your contacts, etc.
Start mentioning that sponsorship would be nice.
Expect a whole lot of none responses as you're asking for money and no (direct) money will be made from this and people will have to give up their own time.
Receive a whole lot of responses and realise that your original idea of 3 rooms running parallel is now blown out the window as you've heard a lot of really interesting workshop ideas and you:
a. Want to attend them all
b. Are quite sure a lot of other people will want to attend them.
Start 'advertising' the workshops.
Speak to Skillsmatter and hear the good news that there are more rooms available so you now have 5 rooms.
Start chasing up workshop descriptions - Start this as early as possible, it'll take longer than you think.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
WTF? I've organised a testing conference. How'd that happen?
A while back I decided that while there are plenty of great talks around at conferences, meetups, etc we need more practical stuff. I want to go somewhere and do stuff, test something, setup something, work with people on something. I imagine it's the same kind of thought that launched the Eurostar Test Labs
I am unbelievably lazy so I did nothing more than think about it. I thought I would borrow the TMF format and have 3 tracks running and people could just go and pick what they were interested in.
I was lucky enough to be able to attend Liz Keogh's Agile, Lean & BDD Course and I happened to mentioned my idea to Wendy who advised Skillsmatter would be happy to help out. I thought nothing more of it.
Wendy tells me she has created a page on the Skillsmatter site. A page! A actual real bona fide website page! What could I do? There was no going back now!
TBC
I am unbelievably lazy so I did nothing more than think about it. I thought I would borrow the TMF format and have 3 tracks running and people could just go and pick what they were interested in.
I was lucky enough to be able to attend Liz Keogh's Agile, Lean & BDD Course and I happened to mentioned my idea to Wendy who advised Skillsmatter would be happy to help out. I thought nothing more of it.
Wendy tells me she has created a page on the Skillsmatter site. A page! A actual real bona fide website page! What could I do? There was no going back now!
TBC
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