John Papa and I just sent out a call for abstracts for the upcoming Spring 2012 DevConnections conference to be held in Las Vegas, NV. If you’re interested in presenting on client-side development topics such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery (or another JavaScript library), Silverlight 5, Windows 8 Metro style app development, or other related topics please submit session ideas. If you know someone else who may be interested, please forward the information. Here’s the official announcement that was sent out.

Call for Abstracts for Sprint 2012 ClientDev Connections Conference – Las Vegas

We’d like to extend an invitation to submit abstracts for consideration to speak at the Spring 2012 Microsoft ClientDev Connections conference (part of DevConnections) in Las Vegas, March 26-29, 2012. Pre-con workshops will be March 25th and post-con workshops will be on March 30th. This is a new track at DevConnections focusing on client-side development technologies such as HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript technologies, Silverlight, and Windows 8 Metro-style apps.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, October 31, 2011.

For submitting sessions, please use this URL: http://www.deeptraining.com/devconnections/abstracts

Please keep the abstracts under 200 words each and in one paragraph. No bulleted items or line breaks, and please use a spell-checker. Do not email abstracts, you need to use the web-based tool to submit them. Please submit at least 3 abstracts although it would help your chances of being selected if you submitted 5 or more abstracts. Also, you are encouraged to suggest all-day pre or post conference workshops as well. We need to finalize the conference content and the tracks layout in just a few weeks, so we need your abstracts no later than October 31, 2011 (Halloween). No exceptions will be granted on late submissions!

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript development techniques
• jQuery or other script libraries
• Silverlight 5
• Windows 8 Metro-style apps
• XAML design concepts
• Windows Phone 7
• Anything else related to client-side development

Please realize that while we want a lot of the new and the cool, it's also okay to propose sessions on the more mundane "real world" stuff as it pertains to client-side development.

What you will get if selected:

• $500 per regular conference talk.
• Compensation for full-day workshops ranges from $500 for 1-20 attendees to $2500 for 200+ attendees.
• Coach airfare and hotel stay paid by the conference (up to $500 is covered for your flight)
• Free admission to all of the co-located conferences
• Speaker party
• The adoration of attendees
• etc.

To repeat: the deadline for submissions is Monday, October 31, 2011.

And the URL once again is: http://www.deeptraining.com/devconnections/abstracts

Your continued support of DevConnections conferences is appreciated.

Good luck and thank you,

Dan Wahlin & John Papa

Microsoft ClientDev Connections Conference Chairs