TechEd Australia 2006
The work on the next TechEd here in Oz has already started, even though it's still 10 months away. Still, I imagine there's a hell of a lot of work going on behind the scenes.
After 4 years of running the show, Chuck has stepped down and handed his tiara to Michael Kleef.
If you've got any suggestions for content you'd like there, drop him a note at his blog. Or, if you want to talk, he's already provided details on what you need to do try and be one of the chosen few (or many, depending on how many tracks they run :)
Me, I'm trying to decide if I want to try out to be a speaker myself. I've got two dilemmas: coming up with a topic that is interesting to others, and fleshing out my speaking resume. I've got no actual speaking experience, so I'm not much of a candidate at the moment.
As for a speaking topic, the best I can come up with is some parts of the reflection namespace. I've done a lot of reflection work, especially delving into the propertygrid, enums and more enums, xmlserialization, and lots of other things. With VS2005 finally getting close to RTM, I can really start delving into the world or light-wieght codegen, and I'm also trying to find time to finish learning IL like I'd planned, and also finish writing a customised propertygrid control that let's you extend the designerverb are a hell of a lot more, as well providing better inlining within the grid of usercontrols (rather than popups).
Me, I find all that stuff really interesting, but would other people? Maybe I'm just one of the few that prefers writing code that sits at the backend, rather than dealing with frontend UI problems. We'll see.
Anyway, if you've got anything to say or do with TechEd, go harass Michael!