The next 5 months
Busy times over the next five months. I've got the usual stuff like FITC Amsterdam from Feb 19-25th. This will be the third year in a row I'm headed over there. It's always a good time, full of inspiration, learning and hanging out with amazing people. Plus a yearly pilgrimage to a European city does wonders for the mind.
FITC Toronto 2010 is going to be huge. The theme is "playground" and there are many awesome things planned around the idea, not to mention I love the creative for the event. I think the 2010 presentation line-up is one of our best yet. Don't miss this. If you're thinking about coming to either FITC event, hit me up for a discount code.
Adding to the usual madness of the FITC schedule, I'm curating the content for the very first NXNEi as the fine folks behind the NXNE music festival aim to bring some of the magic of SXSW Interactive here to Toronto. This event will be taking place in June over two days before the music event. I am super excited about this one as it gives me a chance to dabble into some different topical areas that we might not explore at FITC. Ticket info and some presentation info should be available in the coming weeks.
As prep for NXNEi, we're headed down to SXSW from March 11-17th. If you are going to be there, look me up. I'm looking forward to this as well as it will be my first trip to SXSW.
Now if all of the above, plus all the amazing new stuff we are grinding away at NOW, I thought I'd take up teaching as well. Last Friday was my first day teaching an Introduction to Programming with Flash and Actionscript 3 at Centennial College as part of 1 year post-grad course. Over the past few years I've discovered that I love teaching. I've always almost completely gotten past my fear of public speaking, making teaching much easier! Right now I am totally loving the challenge of distilling the concepts of AS3 and programming in general down to their fundamental pieces and then figuring how to explain these things to people with no programming experience.
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Posted by: sharedtut | January 21, 2010 2:05 PM