Beerconf

On April 14, the first mini-conference in the beer meetup format took place in Chelyabinsk:

- beer bar (in our case it was a pizzeria)
- 10-20 people (16 developers from 6 companies gathered)
- discussion of technologies
- the first mug of beer (or a teapot of tasty tea) is free


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At the beginning of the conference, the organizers “delivered” a “plenary” report, where we told what we expect from meetings in this format and what our goals are.

Programmers like to have a glass of beer and discuss the profession trends with friends. We want ... / * it was very important for us to understand what we want:) * We want to give you-us-yet-yourself the opportunity to share experiences, ideas, meet new interesting people.
Why do we all give up?

Goals:

• Say and be heard;
• We are interested in new knowledge and experience;
• We do not pursue the goals of PR, propaganda of any directions or development tools, advertising of alcoholic beverages (if we want, we will pursue;)).

BeerConf is:

• Informal friendly atmosphere;
• Opportunity to meet new people and strengthen existing relationships;
• Communication of developers of various directions and exchange of experience;
• A place where you can talk with your colleagues from other companies, be listened to, get good advice;
• Free, profile and thematic meetings: web, mobile applications, best practices and so on;
• There is only a few meters between you and the speaker and a glass of tea;
• Once a month (and maybe more or less).

Formats of reports of an informal conference:

• pech-heap
• reports questions
• all the rest

At our first meeting, we discussed:

• advantages and problems of the opensource approach;
• cross-platform mobile application development;
• issues of modern IT education;
• the problem of juggling in programming;
• effective organization of the development process.

Details and the results of the discussions remained in the heads of the participants :) Yes, and the topics were covered much more - the conversation went almost without pauses, flowing from report to report. What we liked best was the lack of rules.
Not the organizers held this meeting - the participants made it with their thoughts and knowledge. Thank!:)

Information about the next meetings will be found on Twitter - twitter.com/beerconf
And on our website - www.beerconf.ru - as you see, we love the principles of KISS and YAGNI . We think whether we want something more from this site - as soon as we decide - we will do it right away.

If you want to hold a similar meeting in your city and suddenly let us know about it - we will be just happy :) You can not report it - the main thing is that you like it.

PS
Some statistics:

• 50% of conference organizers do not drink alcohol
• 60% of conference participants preferred tea to beer