Agile Open 2006
Having enjoyed the first one a lot last year, we (Marc Evers, Vera Peeters, Pascal van Cauwenberghe, Nynke Fokma, Rob Westgeest and yours truly) decided to organise another Agile Open.
Agile Open is an unconference aka Peer Conference , where the sessions and programme are made by the pariticipants.
We scouted for another location, but ended up choosing the Elewijt Center in Mechelen again – there is something very comfortable about a well organised conference facility, where people know who you are. As I noticed last friday when we went there for a meeting. Nynke and I arrived a bit late, and before we could ask for directions we were greeted at the desk – “Ah, I was wondering if you were going to turn up today. Vera Is over there in the Lobby, next to the paintings”. I find the “Cheers factor” very important-
you wanna go where people know,
people are all the same-
you wanna go where everybody knows your name
I want a conference to have the Cheers factor (the SPA conference is where I found that first) . If the location has it already, that makes it even better.
So, I hope you wanna go to Agile Open. Space is limited to 40 people, so we can know each others’ names 
. If so, I’ll see you at April 27 and 28 in Mechelen, Belgium.
