Last week was packed with conference and 2 LCTY. Iwrote about the LCTY in another article earlier today.

Entwicklercamp 2011 was just great. The team around Rudi once again setup a great 3 days conference. The team acts very professional, either in setting up all the technical stuff that is needed to run a conference of this size ( appr. 190 attendees ) , helping newbies to find the right room, putting together the daily campnews and taking photos during the sessions and the social events. There is also a lot of work that remains invisible but has to be done before the first speaker enters the stage for the keynote.

Maureen Leland did the keynote and talked about Domino Appication Development Directions.

Lot of talk about XPages in the breakout sessions. No surprise is that. But there was also other interesting stuff to listen to. Look at the agenda to get an impression of the the variety of topics.

Before the conference, Rudi did a survey to get an impression of how many people would want to see which session. This was great because the rooms in the conference area are of very different size. So there was no need to change a room shortly before the session starts because the room was overcrowded. We have seen this in the past.

I myself delivered 3 sessions and according what I could see from the evaluations, the attendees enjoyed it.

There are a few other things to mention.

Thanks to Ellice Uffer, Manager IBM Press for shipping 4 FREE copies of “Mastering XPages”. Well, not really shipping. Maureen Leland had to carry the books in her luggage. So some pair of shoes had to stay at home for sure. Thank you Ellice and Maureen.

Thanks to Joyce Davies and David Leedy for providing 250 copies of “XPages Cheat Sheet”. Sorry, Joyce for the extra gray hair you got by trying to get the copies delivered in time.

And also a big thank you to Manfred Dillmann (madicon.de) and Juergen Gabel (sdd.de). Both gave me coupons for free licenses of their products as a giveaway. An overall value of € 4.000,- !!

And last but not least, Teamstudio gave me T-Shirts for the attendees of my session. On tuesday evening you could see shiny blue Teamstudio shirts all over the conference.

If you have never been to Entwicklercamp before, consider attending next year. If you are more like an Admin there is also Admincamp.