{"id":1743,"date":"2019-01-22T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:58:40","slug":"dawscon-anatomy-of-a-successful-software-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/dawscon-anatomy-of-a-successful-software-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"DawsCon: Anatomy of a successful software conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Fogel, long-time Computer Science coordinator and co-chair, got involved with a little project called NetBeans a few years ago that he hoped might lead to some added opportunities for students in the program and inspiration for software developers everywhere who wanted to attend a free conference in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Ken\u2019s little project has grown into a not-insignificant cottage industry with a new name, a major sponsor, big name speakers, growing attendance and networking opportunities for old and new developers alike. It\u2019s been a win-win situation for everyone involved and one that has given Ken a much-coveted title in the world of software scions: Java Champion! Congratulations to Ken and to everyone who made DawsCon a great success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnijava.com\/2019\/01\/20\/dawscon-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Ken\u2019s first person account of putting this conference together to its culmination as a premier event on the circuit.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Fogel, long-time Computer Science coordinator and co-chair, got involved with a little project called NetBeans a few years ago that he hoped might lead to some added opportunities for students in the program and inspiration for software developers everywhere who wanted to attend a free conference in Montreal. Ken\u2019s little project has grown into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}