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Hey, it's 2010 already and to ease everyone into the year, we will try something a little bit different this month. Aslam Khan will host an OpenSpaces workshop for about an hour and a half followed by snacks and networking. The snacks are kindly sponsored by Intec.

• OpenSpaces Workshop - Aslam Khan

Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

RSVP

Anyone is free to attend. Please RSVP by emailing YES or MAYBE via our contact form.

Venue

Bandwidth Barn
125 Buitengracht Street
Cape Town
Map

Agenda

18:15 Welcoming and Introduction
   Aslam Khan
18:20 2010 Software Engineering Colloquium Feedback
   Dr. David Hislop
18:25 OpenSpaces Workshop
   Facilitated by Aslam Khan
19:55 Closing and Thanks
   Aslam Khan
20:00 Networking & Discussion

Abstract

Aslam Khan

An OpenSpaces workshop is a self-organising workshop with no pre-planned agenda. The agenda is created by the people attending within a few minutes. We anticipate running three concurrent sessions of about 40 minutes each which gives us 6 sessions. The topic for each session is proposed by someone attending who introduces the topic. People vote with their feet and each topic will attract the right amount of interested people. You are free to move around between sessions.

There are a few simple rules:

• no electronic presentations ... this is about the conversation;
• you don't need to an expert to put up a topic ... this is about learning by sharing;
• if nobody (or very few) attend a topic, it's just a realistic sign of the number of people that find that topic interesting ... it's not an indication of "value" of the topic; and
• the proposer of the topic manages the time available.

Please come along with a few thoughts on what you would like discussed and help make it a fun, relaxed and informative evening to start of 2010.

Facilitator Profile

Aslam Khan

Aslam Khan has eighteen years of professional experience covering software architecture and development using design patterns, agile methodologies and various static and dynamic programming languages. He works intimately by coaching software development teams to design and build sustainable, low maintenance enterprise applications by focusing on team agility, simplicity over complexity and by taking the fundamental position that design is more valuable than a technology.

He holds the philosophy that successful architectures and enterprise applications can be achieved if one immerses themselves completely in the business domain of the enterprise. With a degree in Electronic Engineering, Aslam believes that software architects must be able to build what they draw and still finds room in every engagement to practice his craft of software development.

Aslam is regular writer in various technical forums and speaker at local and international events and is a DZone editor for the Architecture zone. He is part of the factor10 team and you can read his blog at aslamkhan.net.