This Monday sees the start of the annual Scotch on the Rocks conference at the Sway bar in London. This year there’s a change in format as the conference is going on the road, visiting a city every other day through all of next week. There’s a fairly good line up of speakers (alongside a decent showing from Adobe) and a fair few people making their way up there.
But that’s not why I’m writing this blog post. Something I’ve noticed this year is the complete absence of any Adobe conferences containing ColdFusion content in and around Europe. Aside from Scotch and the odd ColdFusion camp here and there, there’s nothing.
For the Americans this is a very different story. For instance, there’s the Adobe MAX conference in October, CFObjective() a couple of weeks back, CFUnited plus a host of other smaller localised ones. This goes to show a common problem with software companies based in the states – the belief that the world stops when you hit the US coast. Admittedly, last year there was an Adobe MAX in Europe (and Japan), but this year, they’ve been binned, and Adobe are expecting everyone to go to the LA event instead. However, for nearly everyone outside of the US this is an incredibly expensive proposition – nearly always costing into the thousands just to attend and have somewhere to sleep for the night.
So, for those of you who may not live on this continent, please note that without the valiant efforts of FuzzyOrange and the Scotch team, we would have absolutely nothing in the UK (or nearby) until towards the end of 2010 (assuming MAX comes back).
Therefore, if you live in northern europe, and can make any of the venues next week, please buy a ticket and attend Scotch – as it’s the only chance you’re going to get for a ColdFusion orientated conference this year.
