>I agree. I do lots of community events and I always learn something from attending other sessions and talking to attendees.
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>I'm speaking at DevLink in a couple of weeks. Not really a community event, but cheap for what you get. I'll also be speaking at Silicon Valley Code camp and maybe Desert Code Camp in Phoenix (I'm still not sure if I can get to this one), both in October.
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>>Thanks, congrats yourself on your first one. Community events are great. It's challenging but it's worth it. To me, the biggest value is finding out how other people are using the tools. Nearly every event, someone will tell me they're using tool XYZ to do something, and I'll think, "wow, I never in a million years would have thought of that".

DevLink is really good. They have great speakers. Just wish I lived closer. I'm doing more client work travel these days and so I definitely try to stick to places where I can be there and back in a day.

I imagine the Code Camps in California are big.

My first Code Camp was in Boston in early 2005. I actually met Rod for the first time, right after I started writing for CoDe. It was a great weekend.