Last week I did a half hour talk about Firefox OS at the 2nd HTMLIL meetup. I got mixed reviews on the talk. Some said it was great, some were disappointed cause it wasn't technical enough. I agree I spent too much time digging into some obvious things. Not enough demoing :/
So, next time I'm on stage I'll do it differently. Thanks for the feedback.
As compensation, I will be publishing a technical post here and in other tech blogs soon.
So here's the video and underneath are the slides.
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 :)
