Smidig 2007 – More agile open space
Friday, November 9th, 2007Reading the title you might go, what on earth is Smidig? Well, let me help you:
“Smidig 2007 er Norges første konferanse rundt smidig systemutviklin”
I guess that means:
“Agile 2007 is the first conference in Norway on agile systems development”
(Smidig might also mean Lean, I cna’t quite make that out from the context. Agile was my best guess)
And it gets better:
“Begge dager vil bestå av Lightning Talks før lunsj og Open Space etter lunsj”
Wich probably means:
“Both days will consist of Lightning Talks before lunch, and Open Space after lunch”
Now for the disclaimer: I don’t speak Norwegian, nor have I ever been to Norway. However, I do understand lunch (and I have been to lunch) 
– and lunch is written as some people in the Netherlands pronounce it…
This looks like a promising conference format – the Lightning Talks are probably submitted fairly just in time, and feed the Open Space, which is, as always, as just-in-time as it gets. If you actually understand what is written on the Smidig 2007 page, I recommend you go there, November 26 and 27 in Oslo, Norway.
this picture from smidig.net who seem to be ‘cake builders’ doing ‘fast delivery’ . Fitting 
November seems agile conference month, there’s a lot going on… One could theoretically continue on from XPDays Germany 2007 before the weekend to Smidig after the weekend and then on to AgileNorth 2007 in Manchester on the 29th.
… Smidigs’ conference format seems to be ‘more than two days, more eXtreme than XP days‘ .
Or not? I’ll be co-hosting an open space during XP days Benelux next week. Deb Hartman recently ran an open space at XP Day Manhattan 2007 . XP Days London seems to be missing an open space, but it has… The Pub .
And there is the virtual world wide open space called the internet…. the latest edition of carnival of the agilists is out, featuring my post on making more money without certification, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on Challenges When Communicating Designs, Michael Feathers on Elegant Byte Counting, and something about remote work and not washing down shavings in the laundry room.
Check carnival of the agilists out, ladies and gentleman. And then book a place at a Smidig or XP days near you, before heading out for the weekend…
