Fellow Nestorfolk,
As promised, we’ll use this time between Christmas and New Year to reflect on 2008. Just as we did
in 2007, in this post we look back at the various events we had the chance to speak at. We’re always interested in telling our story, and in learning from others in the online community, and while blogs and twitter and Facebook are great they will never replace face to face interaction. Over the last yer we had the chance to present at many great events, and we look forward to many more in 2009. In case you missed them:
In January I started things off by being a
panelist at Adriande Capital’s “Future of Search” event. MTM followed that by
speaking about Mapstraction at Oxford Geek Night.
While not technically a public speaking event, it was my pleasure to be
a guest in the Guardian’s Tech Podcast in February. Meanwhile in Spain we were well
represented at the Madrid Facebook Developer’s Garage, and Ruben waved the Nestoria flag as a
panelist at OME 2008 in March
Nestoria in Madrid at Facebook Developer's Garage
In the summer we had the pleasure of sponsoring and speaking at both
OpenStreetMap’s State of the Map conference in Limerick (
BTW, it was just announced that SOTM2009 will be in Amsterdam in July – see you there) and
YAPC::Europe in Copenhagen where both MTM and Mike spoke.
Continuing with the perl theme,
Spiros and Mike represented Nestoria at the TwinCities Perl Workshop, while
Alistair and I rounded out the year by speaking at the LPW08
Overall a great run of conferences, many thanks once again to the organisers. We’re always trying to broaden our spectrum and are on the lookout for interesting events for 2009. All suggestions are very welcome.
On a related note, within Nestoria we run our own weekly series of “tech talks”. Usually someone in the team presents the interesting details of his or her current project, but occasionally we invite external speakers. I’d like to thank everyone who made the time to come and speak with us this year – we learned a lot. I know many techy types read this blog. If you’re in London we’d love to learn from you and have you come present your work to the team. Likewise of course if you’re interested in learning more about Nestoria and your audience would be interested in the challenges (technical or otherwise) of European vertical search, then please
get in touch.
