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Umbraco CodeGarden 2008
Tuesday June 3, 2008 - Wednesday June 4, 2008
Kulturhuset Islands Brygge
Islands Brygge 18
Copenhagen, Hovedstaden 2300 Get Directions
The who’s who of umbraco will be gathered and share their knowledge through talks, tutorials and via un-conference formats like open space or hacking sessions. We have booked a fantastic venue just by the canals of Copenhagen where we’ll have one huge room, three rooms for breakout sessions and a Café that serves your taste of espresso.

We’ve planned a program that fits both experienced umbraco users as well as new comers. The conference is kicked off with a Keynote and after that we’ll have two tracks of sessions and the first day is rounded with an open Q/A session with the umbraco core team.

The second day features an un-conference format called open space, which we also used with great success at last year’s conference. It’s a format where everybody can suggest a topic and as we have plenty of break-out rooms rest assured that there’ll be room for your topic as well. Last year’s topics covered Silverlight, High performance websites with umbraco, building custom data types and much more.

But it doesn’t ends there. We’ve ensured that we can stay at the venue until midnight both days which means that when the first day ends, the fun begins. With almost hundred people gathered at a place with loads of umbraco knowledge, wifi, great food and plenty of space, who knows what could happen. A BBQ, new packages, improvised demos and talks, or…?

Confirmed speakers:

* Niels Hartvig, umbraco founder
* Per Ploug Hansen, umbraco genius
* Douglas Robar, umbraco MVP and creator of XSLTSearch and ImageGen
* Casey Neehouse, umbraco MVP and creator of Autoform Plus / Doc2Form
* Tim Geyssens, umbraco ajax expert
* Paul Sterling, creator of the umbraco/dashCommerce integration
* Ruben Verborgh, umbraco core team member and creator of the new DAL for umbraco 3.1
* You. Whether you come with the questions or answers, you’re as important as any other. CodeGarden has always been made by the people who joins and with plenty of un-conference formats, there’s room for your own 15 minutes of umbraco fame if you like.

Have photos of codegarden08 - post the photos to this Flickr group
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Category: Education
Comments
Hi,
I think we should use the comments before the event to introduce ourselves, describe our working background and maybe tell us what you want from CodeGarden08.
Posted 1 year ago
Well I will try to get the ball rolling on this one.

My name is Warren Buckley and I currently work for Xeed in Norway, and I use Umbraco alot in my day to day work.

I run a blog mainly based around Umbraco and other web related snippets which I write and will find useful to use again at a later point at http://www.creativewebspecialist.co.uk

What i am looking forward to CodeGarden is to finally put names to faces who I have talked to online for so long and met them in person, but also to meet new people and make new contacts, but best of all I look forward to any mashups that come out of this event.

//Warren
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Ismail Mayat I work for IASB2B in the UK. We are now almost exclusively using Umbraco for all our clients. Think we have done around 15 sites so far and a couple more in the pipeline.

I also blog about my hackings with Umbraco at ismail.umbraco.net.

I attended codegarden06 and it totally rocked. This year im really looking forward to meeting as many umbraccians as possible. I am also hoping to get a better understanding of how the membership provider stuff works and the icing on the cake is Paul's Umbraco / dashcommerce integration. Also the free sessions till midnight will be great informal way of seeing what kind of really stuff people have implemented

Ismail
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Per Ploug Hansen, I'm a partner in Umbraco Corp.

My day to day work is developing on the umbraco core, managing courses, plus all the other stuff need to make a open source project run smoothly together with Niels Hartvig and the core team.

I'm coming to codegarden to meet our fantastic community, talk to the developers using umbraco everyday to keep in touch with how it's used and what we can do to make it better.

I'm looking forward to the open sessions and the spontanous hacking that always goes on at codegarden, seeing how great ideas come to life is amazing and inspirering.
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Darren Ferguson.

I've taken almost a year away from Umbraco but am in the process of restoring my old blog containing all of the code and Umbraco extensions I produced previously.

Despite some time away from the community I've been continuing to architect CMS solutions using Interwoven TeamSite.

I run a small IT consultancy called Ferguson Moriyama, based in London, UK.
Posted 1 year ago
Casey Neehouse here to talk about the wonders of umbraco. I have been around the community for nearly 4 years, and have seen umbraco grow from a hobby to a business.

As for me, I am reviving a small IT consulting company I started years ago, and centering the business around services for other small businesses, design firms, and more. Primarily focusing on development services, I also offer hosting to the umbraco community and am an avid participant in the forums, answering questions for new and old users alike.

I am also the maintainer of the Doc2Form (AutoFormPlus) package that allows you to create custom forms with no programming.

Look for me to cover topics regarding Doc2Form and its many capabilities, as well as possibly offering an introductory class on XSLT for the new users attending.

If time permits, I may also do a more complex session on XSLT showing how to integrate extensions into xslt to create powerful applications.
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Douglas Robar.

I run a one-man design firm in Louisville, Kentucky (USA), Percipient Studios. I've been using umbraco for a couple years and nearly all my work is with umbraco. As Per said some time ago, "It's the best decision I ever made" and I agree 100%.

I'm looking forward to sharing some of the fun things I've done with umbraco, but more importantly, to meet all you folks in person and get to know you better!

There is always more to learn about umbraco and how to use it to solve a wide range of customer challenges. The depth of the collective knowledge of the group that will be at CodeGarden is absolutely amazing. Between us, we've probably done just about everything imaginable.

I'm very excited to join in sharing ideas, code snippets, and encouragement! We have such a wonderful community online that I know we'll all be the better for spending a few days together in Copenhagen! See you there.

cheers,
doug.
Posted 1 year ago
I'm Niels Hartvig, the umbraco founder. CG '08 will be quite amazing. We've had the registration open for less than a month and we're already counting more than 70 attendees. That's more than ever. Let's aim for more than 100.

CodeGarden is the umbraco un-conference where anything can happen. Even though there is a program, our aim is to provide formats that ensure that YOU will be responsible for making the conference a success.

People always talk about the best things at a conference happens in the hallway conversations. With CG'08 we're trying to make the whole conference one big hallway conversation and the who's who of umbraco is there to talk to. The MVPs, the core team and of course Per and I - the umbraco corp. I've met most of the core's and all of the MVP and they're all fantastic people who doesn't bite and love to share their umbraco experiences.

If CG '08 won't be the best conference you've ever attended, you only got your self to blame. Remember to poke the people surrounding you, ask questions in the panels and the open spaces and you'll return home and like the rest of us, dying for CG '09.

Can't wait to meet you :)

/n
Posted 1 year ago
I'm Soeren Sprogoe from Silkeborg, Denmark.

Allthough I've recently made a (minor) carreer change to Web Analyst at a company who uses Linux/Java/PHP, and thus not directly working in web development anymore, I'd like to continue to keep my Umbraco skills updated and my Umbracian network intact.

One of the ways I do this is with my blog about eCommerce in Denmark, located at http://www.afdeling18.dk.

It's build entirely from the ground up on Umbraco, and I use it to test my l33t umbraco skills with such features as Mobile Blogging, Bot Honeytraps and much more.

I look forward to seeing ya all in Copenhagen :-)
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Paul Sterling and I run the Umbraco focused company Motus Connect in the US. I am also the technical lead at The Homax Group where we are building out a commerce, content, and community web framework based on Umbraco and dashCommerce. I’m looking forward to meeting the folks that make Umbraco what it is and the folks that are using Umbraco to do wonderful things.

I have a personal task of doing what I can to help Umbraco adoption surpass that of DotNetNuke. I think we will be successful if we have 500,000 Umbraco sites by 2010 – and I see no reason this is not a realistic goal. Motus Connect is just launching the Beta version of the Motus Connect Store
(4 April 2008) which is a limited version of the upcoming Umbraco Store – just another way the Umbraco community can support Umbraco and its continued adoption.

Looking forward to meeting you in June!
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Martin Bentzen, Living in Copenhagen, I've been looking into Umbraco for since the release of 2.1, but I unfortunately does not work with umbraco at my work, but only in my sparetime. Often I look forward to the closing-time at work, so I can get home and do some Umbraco work :-)

I have builded some "normal" webpages, but is primary focused on the community possibilities in Umbraco, and is in progress of building a intranet solution with a lot of fancy stuff.

Look forward to see you all at Codegarden :-)
Posted 1 year ago
My name is David Conlisk and unlike the leading lights of the Umbraco community, above, I don't have a lot of experience with Umbraco. I'm in the process of developing my second commercial site and I've realised that I don't know the half of what Umbraco can do. What I do know is that I enjoy developing with it and I really like what I've seen so far. I'll be one of the ones asking rather than answering the questions!
I have just started up my own web company called Web Garden Limited and I hope to be able to use Umbraco to create useful and beautiful websites for my customers.
I'm looking forward to CG08 to put faces to the names that have been helping me out with my development issues, and to learning a hell of a lot more about Umbraco.
See you all in Copenhagen!
Posted 1 year ago
I'm Len Dierickx and working with Umbraco for quite some time now. I work for a Biotech company, Eurofins and I am using the Umbraco CMS to manage the international websites that present the offer for Eurofins. http://www.eurofins.com

I also have a personal blog, where you might find some info on Umbraco to http://blockquote.be

As every year, codegarden is really the moment where you can see the possibilities and flexibility of umbraco.
See you al in Copenhagen.
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Neil Fenwick. I run my own small web development consultancy based in London - Projectstream Ltd. I am currently working in collaboration with 2 other consultants on my first enterprise level Umbraco-based application for a client, with another to follow shortly after that/

I haven't been using Umbraco for long, but I have been working with .NET for over 6 years and I must complement Niels & the Umbraco team on the smart use of XSL. Umbraco is my .NET CMS of choice and I'm looking forward to swapping ideas with all at CodeGarden and contributing to the project when I've gained some more insight.

My wife and I are strongly considering relocating to Goteborg so it would be nice to meet up with anyone from near the area.

See you in June.
Posted 1 year ago
Hi I’m Tim, I own The Site Doctor –a UK based web design and development company. I’ve been running the company since 2003 and have worked with a variety of organisations ranging from small traders to large multi-national organisations such as Digicel and T-Mobile. I blog about business, development and just about everything else at http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/.

We started using Umbraco about a year ago when it came up one of the mailing lists I contribute to and thought it was pretty dandy. Since getting started with Umbraco, I’ve been involved in 10-15 medium sized installs including a couple multi-lingual sites (including Arabic) which has gone well. I liked it that much I’ve even put our company’s site (http://www.thesitedoctor.co.uk/) on it!

I’m coming to Codegarden to meet other developers using Umbraco and to get more of an idea of what it can do and whether it’s suitable to serve more of our client base. I’m also looking forward to making some new contacts -you never know when you might need help (or someone to just chat to!).

Looking forward to seeing you in June!

Tim
Posted 1 year ago
My name is Morten Bock Sørensen, and I am working at Up-Site in Aarhus, Denmark. We work with a small selection of different CMS'es and Umbraco is definitely my favorite as a developer.

I started using Umbraco around 2 years ago, and I really like the way the community and the project as a whole has developed.

I went to codegarden in London last year, and it was a great couple of days, so I am really looking forward to this years presentations, and the hacking sessions that are always interesting.

I also have a blog where I try to write a bit about CMS and Umbraco when I fall over an interresting subject.

See you at CG08!
Posted 1 year ago
Hi everyone. My name is Kim Løwert. I'm a software engineering student at The Danish Technical University, where I'm currently writing my masters thesis on Open Source software development.

Besides studying software engineering I'm running my own business - AppStract - primarily focussed on umbraco implementation, but we are also doing some software consultancy for the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency.

I started working with umbraco in the summer of 2007, and think it is a fantastic and interesting project. I will be looking forward to start contributing to the project in the coming months, and meeting a lot of you guys at CodeGarden '08.

Cheers Kim
Posted 1 year ago
hi, my name is bob baty-barr, but i go by bootnumlock pretty much everywhere on the net. i have been working to learn as much as i can about umbraco [save the .net coding] for amlost two years now. i attended the umbraco usa retreat last year and had a blast - so codegarden was the natrual next step. i consider myself to be a bit of an umbraco evangelist and definitely a huge fan of the umbraco community and project. i always find myself wishing that i could contribute more. i am a member of the package team, and try to lend help on the forums where possible for new users [although it is hard to beat doug to the punch]. I enjoy exploring the integration of javascript libraries and existing packages into my umbraco sites.

i can't tell you all how excited i am to meet all of you that i have not met already. see you all soon!
Posted 1 year ago
Hi,

My name is Anders Brannmark. I'm a system developer at Mirror Partner in the northern of Sweden. I work primarilly with ASP.Net, Umbraco and Sharepoint. I have also worked with a couple of diffrent business systems like Navision that is also danish from the start, hmm do I see a pattern here, lol.

We have been using Umbraco for about 1 year now, and almost every smaller site we build we use Umbraco as the "framework".

Looking forward in meeting all of you at Codegarden!
Posted 1 year ago
Hi,
my name is Sebastien Bicais. I'm french but been living in the UK for the last 2 years.

After several roles in web agencies I went contracting/freelancing about a year ago.
I've been working with different CMS in different technologies (.Net/php/Flash) and different 'domains' (open-source/entreprise/bespoke development).

My experience with Umbraco is limited to one (quite important) project, and if I knew the potential was there, using it on a daily basis definitly convinced me it was the a solution I'd like to deeg deeper.

anyway, a tres bientot

seb
Posted 1 year ago
Hello!

I'm Ruben Verborgh, a Belgian student that recently got involved with Umbraco and its development.

I'm curious to meet everyone I know from my window to the Umbraco world (= my computer screen) in real life. You are invited to attend my small presentation about why/how and future of the new data layer.

See you in Copenhagen!

Ruben
Posted 1 year ago
Hi All,

My name is Julien Decaudin, I'm a French guy living in London for nearly two years and I'm working in a design agency called SAS. I've been using Umbraco in my work since a year as our main CMS solution and we've done nearly four sites using it at this time - the forth one will launch next week on Codegarden day one!

I'm looking forward to meet the Umbraco community and share about experiences and expectation about this amazing CMS. I'd like to learn more about the extended possibilities some crazy;) developers added to Umbraco as I only used the core system until now. I'm not used to this kind of events so I'm just really excited by coming to Codegarden and try out the open space concept. Can't wait.

See you next week
julien
Posted 1 year ago
Hi there,

My name is Adam Perry, I live outside of London in the UK. I work for a digital agency named Connect-Digital. We implement CMS systems primarily using Umbraco.

I have only been working with Umbraco for a couple of weeks but already have had to write a substantial amount of XSLT. I'm not a .NET developer yet - my experience is with Java/J2EE and C++ - but I'm hoping to pick up .NET fairly quickly :-)

See you Monday (at the theme park) or Tuesday at Codegarden!
Posted 1 year ago
Hi there,
My name is Steven Wilber and I run my own design agency, Essence Design, in the West Midlands, UK.
We have been using Umbraco as our primary CMS once we for the last couple of years now and have created a number of websites, all verying in design and content. It's the design freedom that we love.
We are all C# .Net based and enjoy the mental challenge of XSLT. Since I have to primarily manage projects I've not really managed to get my hands dirty on code for around three years now, which is a tragic shame. However I review and direct our technical direction, thus I have good Umbraco knowledge and hope to see how much further we can take it at CodeGarden 08.
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Cheers
Posted 1 year ago


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