Hardship discount for Deep Agile conference
- TAGS:Agile Bazaar, agile development, conference, embedded systems
- IT TOPICS:Careers, Development
Imagine, if you will, a person who has been laid off. I hope it's hard, but try. Just for a moment. Imagine this person is an agile developer. Imagine that this person has an interest in embedded systems. Imagine this person in Cambridge, MA this weekend. This person is in luck.
Agile Bazaar, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a community for developers in the Boston area, hosts a conference this weekend at Harvard University. Deep Agile 2009: Agile for Embedded Systems will address the possibility of agile techniques in a traditionally very non-agile environment.
Imagining agile and embedded all at the same time may be quite a bit harder than imagining someone in need of attending without the financial wherewithal to accomplish it. Isn't that always the way: you finally have the time, but now you lack the cash. Enter the hardship discount. The organizers are offering lower prices "for those who are unemployed, about to become unemployed, or who have some similarly difficult circumstance."
Because Agile Bazaar is a nonprofit, they only needed to cover their costs. Apparently they've done that and can now offer tickets at $75 for those who qualify. The early-bird discount, which closed in March, came to nearly $400 for the two-day conference, so that's quite a discount.
Key presenters are well-known authors Jack Ganssle and James Grenning, as well as Russel Hill, a senior software engineer at Key Technologies. Session titles include Overcoming Embedded Challenges with Agile, Agile Do or Don't, Case Study: Keys to Agile Success at Key, The big Hairy Monster: Legacy Code, among many others.
As the economy stays in the doldrums, will other organizations find ways to offer professional development opportunities to those who can't afford them right at the moment?