EECI2010 Round-Up
Three days is a lot of hours and minutes filled with visits, handshakes, subtle jokes and outrageous drinks. It’s an entire lifetime of connections, information and inside jokes started. It’s being welcomed and introduced as a new team member.
That is my goal, though, to somehow manage and recap an entirely packed two days of awesome, blended with a people and a setting of fantastic. It’s finding out more and being inspired and sharing your work with people who “get it.”
As a new member on the EllisLab team, I can say with full certainty that I’ve never felt more accepted anywhere as a “n00b”. I’ve been part of this community as a freelancer for five years and have experienced living “out in the trenches.” I appreciate with complete empathy each and every one of your questions, ideas and solutions. I admire the work you do as someone who has beat her head against the wall only to finally come forward, sheepishly, to ask for help and find everyone more than willing to do so. EECI is no different. In fact, it may be more intensely so, as you can sit together on bean bags to share questions and solutions instead of isolated at your laptop.
It started as an idea and grew into a movement. Robert of Whoooz! Webmedia began a ground-breaking conference last year in Leiden and continues to unite us on our own home soil. He is generous, patient and has a passion unmatched by many. We can’t express our gratitude to him enough for having a vision and pursuing it with such intensity.
From speakers to attendees, we received a ton of great feedback at the event. The number one goal is to listen, collect, and then act upon those suggestions. Your input is what makes this community tick and it’s the heartbeat of the conference. Perhaps I’m being a bit over-dramatic on the cliché but it’s true. This community rocks.
In that spirit, many of the speakers have freely shared their slides to the public. Thank you to those who have done so. If you were unable to attend the conference, you can order a DVD from the EECI site. Slides from speakers are listed below. And if you can make it to Leiden this fall, I promise you will not be disappointed. Not by the landscape, the conference, or the community. It is with great joy that we promote EECI EU. And in thanks that we look back at the conference that reminds us why we work the way we do: for you.
Slides from the event:*
- Add-ons Master Class Slides and Files by Greg Ferrell of Solspace.
- EE Commerce, What you need to know (zip files) by Matthew Weinberg
- Plan, build & maintain ExpressionEngine powered websites (pdf) by Leevi Graham. Code available here.
- Subconscious Design by Simon Collison.
- Editorial Design by Greg Wood.
- This is how we roll by Jamie Pittock.
- ExpressionEngine, Entrepreneurship, and Economics by Adii Pienaar.
- Coding for Humans by Leslie Doherty.
- Successfully transition an ExpressionEngine project to the client by Mike Boyink.
- The Power Of ExpressionEngine’s Dynamic Templates by FortySeven Media.
Your Round-ups:*
- Falken Creative.
- Simon Colly.
- Derek Allard.
- Leslie Camacho.
- Jamie Rumblelow.
- 420 Creative
- Anton Peck
- CMS Wire
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Don’t forget to follow EE Insider for more news as slides become available. We’ll do our best to keep this post updated but Ryan is rockin’ the look-out for new content as well. *We’ll add slides and roundups as more people submit them.
