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When Ron Reiter asked me to join him and Alex Wolkov in organizing a Front End only sessions meetup, there was no doubt in my mind. There are some FED meetups and conventions happening in IL but not frequently and not solely FED related.
Ron Reiter, Alex Wolkov and myself
The three of us have been around for a while and are happily giving back to the community with lectures and lessons, participation in hackathons, creating and managing communities, creating tools, contributing to open source projects and sharing knowledge. Now, to further our involvement using our connections and experience, we wish to bring forth the best people in the industry from the most influential companies to talk about the hottest and most useful stuff.
Wednesday was the first meetup and it went very well. Thanks to Google Campus opening it's venue and supplying the pizzas, we had successful sessions and a good time with the ~120 participants.
Lots of FEDs in one room
People came in quite early and began munching and mingling. I gave a quick who/why/what and we were off with the first talk - Elad Katz on creating native apps for Windows 8 in HTML. Then, came up Ido Green talking about Google Chrome and future features. Took a break and came back for a final talk from Idan Gazit about Advanced Typography.
Elad Katz and Ron with last minute preparations
Then a group of us went over to a nearby restaurant to celebrate a successful evening with beers and (veggie) burgers.
Alex set a feedback page and from a quick look it seems that we shouldn't have rushed the talks. Either we extend their duration or prepare the speakers for the specified time. We'll get it right on the next one :)
When Serge Krul asked if I could do a short lecture at Netcraft's first DevShots I knew I had to put mobile web dev aside this time and talk about something new and exciting. It was a no brainer though - as a musician from childhood and a short term sound tech, the Web Audio API intrigued me. Even more so when I took a glance at the documentation realizing the standard is incredible and opens up new worlds. My expertise in sound tech was a big help.
I have been doing lots of talks lately. It's exhausting but I love it. I'm always stressed before I get on stage but when I'm up there I feel relaxed and fluent. This talk was filled with energy - mine and the audience. I really felt their attention and heard their laughter (with me, not at me) and the cheer at the end. More over, much appreciated FEDs came up to me to congratulate on a job well done and said they actually learned something new :)
I think I got 'em mostly with my demo of hulk lip syncing. Here's the project on my Github.
No video I'm afraid but the slides are here from the SlideShare page.