Call for Presentations: Denver CLD Summit 2013 - Sept. 19th

[Earentzen]

Hello Everyone,

As the topic states, this is a "Call for Presentations" for the upcoming Denver CLD Summit on Sept. 19th, 2013.  The topic of this year's CLD Summit is Developing Professional Software.  This was the topic for the 2013 Americas CLA Summit in the spring, and was selected because it encompasses a wide variety of topics all related to interpretation of what constitutes "professional" software.

Examples of topics may include (but are not limited to):

• Modular architecture (Plug-ins, etc.)
• GUI design
• Deployment and Release management
• Quality assurance (e.g. using VI Analyzer, etc.)
• Licensing
• Anything you consider an element of "professional" software...

The term "presentations" is a bit misleading, as we'd like the summit to be as interactive as possible--but "Call for Discussions" just doesn't have the same ring...  If you would like to present or chair a discussion, please contact me.  For those of you who are pursuing the "points" system of NI re-certification, a presentation here will count towards your points total.

I encourage anyone planning to attend to join the Community group: 

Please note, however, that the CLD Summit is open only to current NI CLD's and CLA's and is considered one of the benefits of NI Certification.  If you're not up to presenting but have ideas for topics that you would like to see covered, please post them on the Community page.

The success of this event is entirely dependent on participation from the local developer community.  Last year's inaugural CLD Summit set the benchmark, and I hope we can carry this momentum to make this year's summit a success!

Thanks,

Erik

Edit:  Sept. 18th ALARM meeting canceled to encourage participation in this Summit; description updated.

[Earentzen]

Below is the proposed agenda for the upcoming CLD Summit on Sept. 19th.  As a reminder to all CLD's and CLA's, you still have 10 days left to register if you haven't done so already!  The summit is being held in lieu of this month's ALARM meeting, which has been canceled.  If you are interesting in contributing to the summit, we are still accepting 10-15min. entries for the "Programming Tidbits" portion of the agenda, as shown below.

Hope to see you there!

2013 Denver CLD Summit Proposed Agenda

Thursday, Sept. 19th, 2013 NI Colorado Training Office 363 Centennial Parkway, Suite 202 Louisville, CO 80027
8:00am – 8:30am	Registration and Breakfast
8:30am – 8:45am	Introduction (Erik Arentzen, CLA)
8:45am – 10:00am	LabVIEW Plug-Ins:  Interactive Discussion (Nancy Hollenback, CLA, NI Field Architect)
10:00am – 10:15am	15min AM Break
10:15am – 11:15am	Component-ized, Module, Plug-In Example (Dave Thomson, CLA)
11:15am – 12:00pm	Other Programming Tidbits (Multiple Contributors) Variants / Variant Attributes– (Steven Flannery, CLA) OO Design Tidbits– (Cindy Medina, CLD) TBD – (TBD)
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Lunch provided by NI
1:00pm – 2:00pm	LabVIEW and the Web:  Everything Else you Need to Know (Matt Whitlock, CLD)
2:00pm – 2:15pm	15min PM Break
2:15pm – 3:00pm	GUI Design Based on Web Menu Style (Web-inspired Menu-based UI) (Robert Brown, CLD)
3:00pm – 4:00pm	API Design (Brian Powell, NI Field Architect)
4:00pm – 5:00pm	Wrap-Up, “Parking Lot” Discussions, & Social Hour (Refreshments provided by NI)