Chris Sells is looking for papers for his first PhoneCon:
The conference format is 8 conference calls over 8 weeks. Each conference call will be 90 minutes long with a 60 minute talk and 30 minutes for q&a/discussion. The call will require attendees to queue with questions, so it won’t be chaos. Also, each attendee will be able to log into a WebEx (or some such) session to see the slides and demos as the speaker talks. The number of attendees will be limited to 100 this first time around (gotta work out the kinks), but I think the idea of a series of conference talks you can watch w/o the expense or time required to travel has merits, i.e. attendees only pay for the content and not the travel and speakers get paid for their talks, but don’t have to leave home.
The topic of the first “PhoneCon” will be intermediate to advanced WinForms. Anyone interested or that knows someone interested in giving a talk over the phone in their PJs, please send me abstracts. Thanks!
Cool idea. Email Chris at the link above if you’ve got what he’s looking for. I’m just waiting for the sign-up email.