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2014 memory: TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/08

10 years ago, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and attend the [Wayback/Archive] GDG DevFest Netherlands 2014.

Until then, on the mobile front, I only had deep experience with the .NET Compact Framework, on the cloud framework I had no real experience: my experience were (sometimes huge) systems running in private data centers communicating with various protocols over SNA and TCP/IP (and way before that: UUCP and dial-up) and on the programming front my strengths were .NET and Delphi (with truckloads of scripting) and no experience in Go or Dart (Rust was invented a year later).

So I was really happy with the [Wayback/Archive] TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands

I think this comment by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on a G+ post is one of the best complements we’ve got:
“Thanks for organizing this. It was a great conference! A great mix of things outside my comfort zone and things I could relate to from a very different perspective: wonderful and inspiring.”

G+ plus is gone, but this memory will last forever as this was a start widening my horizon learning about GDG like I knew about SDN*, Borland/Inprise/Codegear/Embarcadero DevRel and Microsoft DevRel.

Related links (they repeated the DevFest in 2015 as well):

  • SDN is a broad Dutch user group with a long 30+ year history famous for their CttM conferences with a broad selection of international speakers. It got renamed from SDGN to SDN in 2004, and originated as the CDGN (yes, Clipper!) in 1990 but renaming themselves before the Wayback Machine started archiving web pages. Some links as these kinds of organisations are very important to keep us connected to the past and keep learning from that past in reverse chronological order:
  1. [Wayback/Archive] Home – SDN – Software Development Network
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Welkom bij het Software Developer Network

    Een nieuwe naam, een nieuw Logo, en nu een nieuwe layout voor de Site

  3. [Wayback/Archive] Software Developers Group Netherlands
  4. [Wayback/Archive] SDGN brengt terra incognita van ontwikkelwereld in kaart – Computable.nl

    De Software Developers Group Netherlands begon in 1990 onder de naam Clipper Developers Group Netherlands.

  5. [Wayback/Archive] 10th annual Conference to the Max (CttM): Call for Speakers

GDG Netherlands still organises events:

2014:

2015:

Queries:

--jeroen

[Wayback/Archive] groupphoto.jpg (1676×1118) picture:

 

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