A little bit in late here it is my post about the 4th ugiALT.net conference of 27th june.

I’m very satisfied of the day, the number of partecipant is growing and we were in 70, the multi-disciplinar sessions are very interesting and the interactive way of doing them drag the people attention.

A lot of posts were already written about the day here  (only one in english):

jacopo: http://jfranzoi.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/about-how-pleasant-a-saturday-can-be/

alessandro: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/allePalle_blog/archive/2009/06/28/molto-bene-lrsquoalt.net-conference-di-bologna.aspx

mauro: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/topics/archive/2009/06/29/ugi.alt-conf-recap.aspx

riccardo: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/zanardini/archive/2009/06/29/iv-ugialt.net-conference-ndash-solo-due-cosette.aspx

andrea: http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/angellaa/archive/2009/06/28/iv-ugialtnetconf-27-giugno-2009-impressioni.aspx

I would like to thank the guy’s who have managed the logistics of the day, the lunch and the great dinner!  Thanks Andrea Turchi and Martino Vallara!

Last note: the conference room was in a municipal park of Bologna. There we had a room for the conference but a lot Open Spaces was born in the outside park and this was a really nice thing. Here are some photos: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=80754244901.

Me, simone and claudio have already begin to think at the winter edition,  if someone wants to join us with the organization contact us throught the mailing list.

After two months in which we collected the sessions proposal for the next UgiALT.NET conference, today we published the list and opened the poll for vote your preferred sessions.

We are very satisfied about the collected sessions, 18 proposals on variuous arguments all with something very interesting.

Some of the arguments are: Mono, XNA, Rhino ETL, UIX design, CI, Spring.NET, Scrum, etc…

So now it’s time to vote your five preferred sessions and wait until the 27 June to came to listen and discuss with us.

You can vote here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ugialtnet/surveys?id=12895553 and get more information here: http://ugialt.net/IV_UgiAltNetConf.ashx

Last Saturday there was in Milan the Third Italian ATL.NET Conference. Simone has just posted about this here.

It was a marvellous day with interesting topics and joyful people.

The OpenSpace format works well and suddenly everyone feels ok by asking, answering and discussing about the topics during the speech and after the speech.

We talked about

• User Stories (I and Antonio)
• Domain Driven Design (Roby and Antonio)
• IronRuby (Ivanc0mes from Belgium to talk!)
• Test Driven Development and Unit Testing (I and Claudio)
• Fitnesse (Jacopo)

One nice consideration is that we never talked about .NET Framework, most of the speaker’s laptop used was a Mac with mono on it…and that’s is very cool!

Here you find some photos of the event: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=39031742487