IT in the region. Ulyanovsk. We leave from the twilight
Ulyanovsk is my hometown, but I started my development career in Moscow and went from a PHP developer in a web studio to a Ruby On Rails programmer on Skype. Zelenograd, in which the Skype office is located, turned out to be a very unusual city. He is really very green, well maintained and pleasant to live. It was there that the thought came that the light did not converge on Moscow. After some time, I quit, and, having no plan or savings, I went home to Ulyanovsk to create the company of my dreams.
What was my surprise when I learned how developed the IT movement in the city.
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A company that deals with blogs, as well as creating, managing and developing a variety of content projects. Their most notable products are Lifehacker , one of the most popular Runet blogs, and the Macradar Apple blog.
Creator of the acclaimed mobile app “ Buy a loaf! ". Originally conceived as a joint shopping list for couples, it has a minimalist interface, synchronization between devices and other useful features. Recently, Buy a loaf! Became the most popular shopping list in the world.
The company's products - solutions for e-commerce Ecwid , X-Cart , LiteCommerce . These products are used in more than 180 countries, hundreds of thousands of online stores. Ecwid is written in GWT. The company employs over 130 people. The company's founder, Ruslan Fazliev, is rightfully considered one of the most successful Russian startups .
Their product is CS-Cart , another popular e-commerce company solution. Customers - more than 30,000 stores in 163 countries. The company itself employs over 100 people.
In general, there are quite a few companies in Ulyanovsk that make such decisions, many of which are quite popular. And around them there are at least a hundred small companies that are engaged in maintenance and their modification.
One of the largest online agencies in Russia. The staff exceeds 100 people. The main office is in Ulyanovsk, a branch in Moscow. The company works on websites, online advertising, mobile applications, games for social networks and other projects for major Russian and international brands, including Sony, Renault, restaurant holding GinzaProject, Ingosstrakh, Alla Dukhovaya's ballet "Todes", etc. ITECH ranks 9th in the ranking of the leading web developers in Russia and the CIS according to the version of the analytical project Runet Rating.
A branch of one of the leaders in the digital advertising market RED KEDS. In 2011, MST ranked
14th place in the rating web studios "Tagline". The company won a bunch of professional contests. The company's clients are Panasonic, M.Video, Gazprom, Rosneft and others. MST has an excellent office , often surprising guests of the company. Now the company goes into a narrow specialization of creativity and design, while developing two of its own software start-ups.
AdVantShop.NET , one of the most popular e-commerce products in Russia. The platform is distributed both in the license and in the SaaS, sold in Russia and in the West. The main development technology is .NET. The company’s portfolio also includes projects developed for Sberbank, gameland and others. ITM is actively engaged in social projects, among which ul-people.ru , rating-education73.
Included in the top 100 marketing agencies by tagline .
In addition to the development of custom web projects, the company created the project “ City in 3D ”.
My Media has developed a unique social marketing technology based on 3d tours, which has already been appreciated by Seliger international forum and Ogilvy advertising agency. The guys have drawn up their philosophy into the social project of ITOMO.RF, which has become famous in the city.
Full cycle advertising agency. Clients include Just, StroyTransGas, Yulmart, IKEA, Russian Special Economic Zones, and ArArAt. In early 2013, the company launches its own software product.
The company develops a technological ecosystem of its own and partner products for the rapid deployment of real-time web applications. Customers include Sony, NASDAQ, NBC, Universal Music Group. Perhaps the largest project in Russia using Erlang. Co-founder and technical director of the Californian company Lev Valkin initiated the opening of a technology office in Ulyanovsk. The Echo company was one of the first to systematically attract highly qualified engineers from Moscow and Russian regions to Ulyanovsk.
Engaged in the development of "uncompromising technological platform for television broadcasting via the Internet." The company is widely known in the circles of rails-developers. Some public projects: telemarker.ru and webvybory2012.ru . A team of thirty developers works in Ulyanovsk, some of whom have moved from other cities: Chelyabinsk, Samara, Saratov.
The largest custom software developer in Ulyanovsk. More than 80 company specialists create systems in C ++, Java, C #, JavaScript, PHP, Objective-C and other languages. The portfolio of SimbirSoft has projects in the financial sector (banking systems, FOREX), software for embedded systems (for example, for motion controllers), design of the architectural environment, project management, CRM and much more. The company is a manufacturer of software for the business of the Russian Federation, Europe, USA, Japan, Israel. The scope of projects on the SimbirSoft side ranges from 1 to 60 man-years. In recent years, the company has mastered mobile technologies and is now making business applications for Android and iOS.
Moscow company, established in 2007 and conducting its activities in the market of VAS services. Due to the interest of Ulyanovsk employees to the Ruby on Rails framework, part of the company's services were implemented on this platform, which is gaining popularity. As a result, it became the main one in the subsequent development of various software products for the Big Three operators. The total number of commerce services of the company has exceeded one hundred, and the number of subscribers served by them - for tens of millions throughout Russia. The company unites more than 60 employees from various cities, has a branch in Kazan, and is now actively developing its technological representation in Ulyanovsk.
The main specialization of Kaizen is outsourcing on Ruby on Rails, auditing and consulting. Clients include: kommersant.tv, VOOP, tulp.ru. The company actively participated in the formation of the Ulyanovsk startup development team tulp.ru. Kaizen conducts many Ruby / Rails master classes and development approaches workshops (XP, Agile, DDD). Engaged in attracting investment (as well as technical specialists) to the region.
Developer of games for mobile platforms since 2003. The portfolio has games for iPhone, Android, Nintendo DS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Blackberry. Work with Chillingo, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nokia.
Netstream.ru, RBC Hosting Center, XIM, Nic.ru have their branches in Ulyanovsk.
In the city there is a large and mysterious "NPO Mars," which deals primarily with control systems for the military and civilian industries. They develop a lot of things , but do not tell anyone about it because of the secrecy :)
Open regional competition of computer creativity among schoolchildren, organized on the initiative of Pavel Makarov from Ulyanovsk State Technical University and Elena Bukina from Lyceum at UlSTU. Every year hundreds of schoolchildren take part in this event, who present their works in 17 nominations. Representatives of IT companies in the competition conduct master classes. Master IT has been held for 10 years and is the largest school competition in Ulyanovsk.
Volga IT Olympiad among students and postgraduates Volga IT annually gathers participants from all over the Volga region. This year the Olympiad has already 9 nominations. In 2011, about 400 people took part in the first round, over 100 competed in the final. The Olympiad is held on the basis of the leading universities of Ulyanovsk, and this year the secondary specialized educational institutions joined. Founded by Creative Development, in recent years the Olympiad has grown into a major regional event, organized and sponsored jointly by key local IT companies and the government of the Ulyanovsk Region.
For the first time, "The Day of the Programmer" in Ulyanovsk was held on September 12, 2010. Since then, the event has been held annually and is focused on IT students of all courses. For the last 2 years, the “Day of the Programmer” has been held at UlSTU, where students are represented by representatives of leading IT companies in the city. In 2012, the event included study tours of students and schoolchildren around the offices of IT companies, as well as reports from invited experts, for example, Alexander Bindu from Chelyabinsk. Event organizers: two non-profit partnerships (including 11 leading IT companies) with the support of the Ministry of Information Technologies of the Ulyanovsk Region.
Training project implemented by IT companies of the city with the support of the Government of the Ulyanovsk region since September 2010. The main activity of the training center is to conduct courses to improve IT competence for students and young professionals. Also on the basis of itc73 additional special projects are being organized, for example, “Summer School of Web Developers”.
As part of the itc73 project, experienced employees and managers of IT companies began to conduct training courses in the areas of “Programming”, “Web Design”, “Layout”, “Internet Marketing”, etc. PHP, Ruby, .NET, C + courses are being read. +, Objective-C, etc.
In two years, the number of destinations increased from four to eighteen. More than a thousand people were trained, some of whom now work in IT companies in Ulyanovsk. Some course participants subsequently created their own companies.
An on-site training seminar for young people who want to work in the field of IT and develop software.
The team development format for students was born in 2011 after the second graduation of the itc73 courses and was named the Summer Web Developers School. For the first time, the guys in the teams developed websites (there were 5 cutoffs in the project and 2 weeks of time), each team eventually developed and presented real projects. Such a “pumping” helped the participants to gain teamwork skills.
The continuation and development of the project was the deadline-camp, which was held in the summer of 2012. As part of this project, the guys lived in a tent camp away from the city for a week. Having broken up into teams, they developed real projects, both for the web and for desktops. Every day, specialists from organizing companies came to them and read workshops on topics from management to testing and code writing practices.
The non-profit organization ULSK.IT (ITECH.group, “Script”, “Creative Development”, Echo), together with Ulyanovsk State Technical University, launched a new educational program this year, according to which students take part in the training “in production” - within the walls of IT companies, and teachers are employees of companies.
In the summer of 2011, on the banks of the Volga, the Script Company held for the first time ULCAMP, an informal gathering of IT specialists from Ulyanovsk and invited guests. ULCAMP'2011 was the largest event of its kind in the region and served as a powerful incentive to strengthen ties within the IT community of Ulyanovsk.
In July 2012, ULCAMP turned into an international festival that received a considerable response in Russia and without a doubt became the most notable IT event of the past summer. That there is only a list of speakers: Sergey Belousov (Runa Capital), Peter Didenko (SKB Kontur), Sergey Zefirov, Sergey Kotyrev (UMI), Andrey Aksenov (Sphinx) and even Monty, the legendary creator of MySQL.
The desire to continue professional communication after the ULCAMP-2011 gathering led to the birth of ULCAMP :: Dev - periodic self-organizing meetings of IT people, at which professionals share their experiences, and newcomers get the opportunity to communicate with IT “gurus” (both local and invited guests from other cities) . Discusses the subtleties of the profession, new technologies and features of their application and much more. Meetings usually take place monthly during off-hours in the conference rooms of the offices of IT companies or in the lectures of UlSTU. Functional paradigms, development through testing, continuous integration, devops are discussed and implemented everywhere.
The main interaction takes place through the facebook group it_ulsk and ULCAMP :: Dev, with 400–500 members each . The groups also include colleagues from other regions. Many of them come to meetings with entire delegations (hello, CHEBiT! :), and also actively participate in discussions.
The first IT-conference “Strike” in Ulyanovsk was held in April 2012. More than 1000 people from different regions of the country took part in it. The conference turned out to be versatile, with reports on web development, marketing, IT startups. The speakers were commercial conference stars of highload.ru level: Roman Pavlushko (AVITO.ru), Alexander Titov (Skype), Alexey Rybak (Badoo), Alexey Makhotkin (undev.ru), Konstantin Osipov (mail.ru), Lev Valkin (Echo ), Dmitry Kozlov (DEFA), Andrey Yablonskikh, Dmitry Vasilyev (NetCat), Vasily Tkachev (AllInTop) and Ivan Nikitin (binn). The event was one of the largest in the Volga region, and at the same time - completely free for participants.
“Sit-offs” is one of the most informal formats of the Ulyanovsk movement, allowing novice IT people (and those who want to become) to communicate with well-known technology bison in an informal setting: ask their questions, listen to success stories and participate in the discussion of current topics.
The above companies are pioneers and active participants of the IT movement in the Ulyanovsk region. They conduct master classes, organize meetings and discussions: regular testers meetings, round tables, chef-parties (devops), 24-hour hackathons, and even intercorporate celebration of Halloween. In addition, employees of several companies teach in Ulyanovsk universities.
Upcoming events
Due to the fact that a large and active community of Ruby / Rails developers has recently been formed in the city, the idea to hold a Railsclub conference in Ulyanovsk is long overdue. The organizers accepted the idea with interest, and now they are actively preparing. The speakers will include Maxim Lapshin, Alexey Palazhchenko (Skype), Andrei Rudenko (mail.ru), Lev Valkin, Nikolai Rekubratsky (undev.ru), Ivan Evtukhovich (express42), as well as representatives of companies Evil Martians, Evrone and others. Announcement of the event here .
Next year the event will be held in two days in the Leninsky memorial. The planned number of participants is 2500. Participation is free. Speakers are expected from companies Mail.ru, Yandex, Google, Badoo, Skype and many others.
In July 2013, the third international festival ULCAMP will take place.
After my stories about local IT, Scrumtrack decided to conduct training in the summer of 2013 in Ulyanovsk.
Recently, we often hear from our colleagues from other regions that Ulyanovsk sounds more and more often and louder. This is due to the openness of companies and the expressed desire to establish horizontal links. Literally 4 years ago, the situation was not much different from our neighbors - everyone sat at their own “iron curtain” and saw only attempts to divert employees around. In 2010, it became clear that this was the way to a dead end.
Despite the existing differences between the companies, we are actively interacting and looking for common ground. For example, everyone is worried about the outflow of specialists to Moscow, and we are learning from each other to create more favorable conditions for employees. Largely due to this, the “brain drain” in the capital is indeed decreasing. Attracting investment and the emergence of new companies in Ulyanovsk are also in our area of ​​interest. We see how the exchange of experience and technological diversity leads to an increase in the overall technical and organizational level of local companies.
Sure steps have been taken to involve the regional authorities in civilized support of various aspects of IT operations. The Ministry of Information Technologies of the Ulyanovsk Region is a sponsor or co-organizer of many useful initiatives. And, although many issues are still being resolved without proper focus and professionalism, there is a chance to correct the situation and to the fact that our example of interaction between private and public initiatives will prove to be a worthy example for replication in other regions of Russia.
What was my surprise when I learned how developed the IT movement in the city.
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Contents :
- companies and products of the city, known in Russia and abroad and / or actively participating in events;
- "IT movement": the formation and the present;
- upcoming events and plans for growth.
Companies and Products
Buffer bay
A company that deals with blogs, as well as creating, managing and developing a variety of content projects. Their most notable products are Lifehacker , one of the most popular Runet blogs, and the Macradar Apple blog.
Script
Creator of the acclaimed mobile app “ Buy a loaf! ". Originally conceived as a joint shopping list for couples, it has a minimalist interface, synchronization between devices and other useful features. Recently, Buy a loaf! Became the most popular shopping list in the world.
Creative design
The company's products - solutions for e-commerce Ecwid , X-Cart , LiteCommerce . These products are used in more than 180 countries, hundreds of thousands of online stores. Ecwid is written in GWT. The company employs over 130 people. The company's founder, Ruslan Fazliev, is rightfully considered one of the most successful Russian startups .
Simbirsk technologies
Their product is CS-Cart , another popular e-commerce company solution. Customers - more than 30,000 stores in 163 countries. The company itself employs over 100 people.
In general, there are quite a few companies in Ulyanovsk that make such decisions, many of which are quite popular. And around them there are at least a hundred small companies that are engaged in maintenance and their modification.
ITECH.group
One of the largest online agencies in Russia. The staff exceeds 100 people. The main office is in Ulyanovsk, a branch in Moscow. The company works on websites, online advertising, mobile applications, games for social networks and other projects for major Russian and international brands, including Sony, Renault, restaurant holding GinzaProject, Ingosstrakh, Alla Dukhovaya's ballet "Todes", etc. ITECH ranks 9th in the ranking of the leading web developers in Russia and the CIS according to the version of the analytical project Runet Rating.
MST Digital Agency
A branch of one of the leaders in the digital advertising market RED KEDS. In 2011, MST ranked
14th place in the rating web studios "Tagline". The company won a bunch of professional contests. The company's clients are Panasonic, M.Video, Gazprom, Rosneft and others. MST has an excellent office , often surprising guests of the company. Now the company goes into a narrow specialization of creativity and design, while developing two of its own software start-ups.
ITM Group
AdVantShop.NET , one of the most popular e-commerce products in Russia. The platform is distributed both in the license and in the SaaS, sold in Russia and in the West. The main development technology is .NET. The company’s portfolio also includes projects developed for Sberbank, gameland and others. ITM is actively engaged in social projects, among which ul-people.ru , rating-education73.
My media company
Included in the top 100 marketing agencies by tagline .
In addition to the development of custom web projects, the company created the project “ City in 3D ”.
My Media has developed a unique social marketing technology based on 3d tours, which has already been appreciated by Seliger international forum and Ogilvy advertising agency. The guys have drawn up their philosophy into the social project of ITOMO.RF, which has become famous in the city.
INTERRA digital
Full cycle advertising agency. Clients include Just, StroyTransGas, Yulmart, IKEA, Russian Special Economic Zones, and ArArAt. In early 2013, the company launches its own software product.
Echo
The company develops a technological ecosystem of its own and partner products for the rapid deployment of real-time web applications. Customers include Sony, NASDAQ, NBC, Universal Music Group. Perhaps the largest project in Russia using Erlang. Co-founder and technical director of the Californian company Lev Valkin initiated the opening of a technology office in Ulyanovsk. The Echo company was one of the first to systematically attract highly qualified engineers from Moscow and Russian regions to Ulyanovsk.
undev
Engaged in the development of "uncompromising technological platform for television broadcasting via the Internet." The company is widely known in the circles of rails-developers. Some public projects: telemarker.ru and webvybory2012.ru . A team of thirty developers works in Ulyanovsk, some of whom have moved from other cities: Chelyabinsk, Samara, Saratov.
Simbirsoft
The largest custom software developer in Ulyanovsk. More than 80 company specialists create systems in C ++, Java, C #, JavaScript, PHP, Objective-C and other languages. The portfolio of SimbirSoft has projects in the financial sector (banking systems, FOREX), software for embedded systems (for example, for motion controllers), design of the architectural environment, project management, CRM and much more. The company is a manufacturer of software for the business of the Russian Federation, Europe, USA, Japan, Israel. The scope of projects on the SimbirSoft side ranges from 1 to 60 man-years. In recent years, the company has mastered mobile technologies and is now making business applications for Android and iOS.
Fun box
Moscow company, established in 2007 and conducting its activities in the market of VAS services. Due to the interest of Ulyanovsk employees to the Ruby on Rails framework, part of the company's services were implemented on this platform, which is gaining popularity. As a result, it became the main one in the subsequent development of various software products for the Big Three operators. The total number of commerce services of the company has exceeded one hundred, and the number of subscribers served by them - for tens of millions throughout Russia. The company unites more than 60 employees from various cities, has a branch in Kazan, and is now actively developing its technological representation in Ulyanovsk.
Kaizen
The main specialization of Kaizen is outsourcing on Ruby on Rails, auditing and consulting. Clients include: kommersant.tv, VOOP, tulp.ru. The company actively participated in the formation of the Ulyanovsk startup development team tulp.ru. Kaizen conducts many Ruby / Rails master classes and development approaches workshops (XP, Agile, DDD). Engaged in attracting investment (as well as technical specialists) to the region.
Mobirate
Developer of games for mobile platforms since 2003. The portfolio has games for iPhone, Android, Nintendo DS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Blackberry. Work with Chillingo, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nokia.
Other
Netstream.ru, RBC Hosting Center, XIM, Nic.ru have their branches in Ulyanovsk.
In the city there is a large and mysterious "NPO Mars," which deals primarily with control systems for the military and civilian industries. They develop a lot of things , but do not tell anyone about it because of the secrecy :)
Educational movement
IT master
Open regional competition of computer creativity among schoolchildren, organized on the initiative of Pavel Makarov from Ulyanovsk State Technical University and Elena Bukina from Lyceum at UlSTU. Every year hundreds of schoolchildren take part in this event, who present their works in 17 nominations. Representatives of IT companies in the competition conduct master classes. Master IT has been held for 10 years and is the largest school competition in Ulyanovsk.
Volga IT
Volga IT Olympiad among students and postgraduates Volga IT annually gathers participants from all over the Volga region. This year the Olympiad has already 9 nominations. In 2011, about 400 people took part in the first round, over 100 competed in the final. The Olympiad is held on the basis of the leading universities of Ulyanovsk, and this year the secondary specialized educational institutions joined. Founded by Creative Development, in recent years the Olympiad has grown into a major regional event, organized and sponsored jointly by key local IT companies and the government of the Ulyanovsk Region.
Programmer's day
For the first time, "The Day of the Programmer" in Ulyanovsk was held on September 12, 2010. Since then, the event has been held annually and is focused on IT students of all courses. For the last 2 years, the “Day of the Programmer” has been held at UlSTU, where students are represented by representatives of leading IT companies in the city. In 2012, the event included study tours of students and schoolchildren around the offices of IT companies, as well as reports from invited experts, for example, Alexander Bindu from Chelyabinsk. Event organizers: two non-profit partnerships (including 11 leading IT companies) with the support of the Ministry of Information Technologies of the Ulyanovsk Region.
Educational project " itc73 "
Training project implemented by IT companies of the city with the support of the Government of the Ulyanovsk region since September 2010. The main activity of the training center is to conduct courses to improve IT competence for students and young professionals. Also on the basis of itc73 additional special projects are being organized, for example, “Summer School of Web Developers”.
As part of the itc73 project, experienced employees and managers of IT companies began to conduct training courses in the areas of “Programming”, “Web Design”, “Layout”, “Internet Marketing”, etc. PHP, Ruby, .NET, C + courses are being read. +, Objective-C, etc.
In two years, the number of destinations increased from four to eighteen. More than a thousand people were trained, some of whom now work in IT companies in Ulyanovsk. Some course participants subsequently created their own companies.
deadline camp
An on-site training seminar for young people who want to work in the field of IT and develop software.
The team development format for students was born in 2011 after the second graduation of the itc73 courses and was named the Summer Web Developers School. For the first time, the guys in the teams developed websites (there were 5 cutoffs in the project and 2 weeks of time), each team eventually developed and presented real projects. Such a “pumping” helped the participants to gain teamwork skills.
The continuation and development of the project was the deadline-camp, which was held in the summer of 2012. As part of this project, the guys lived in a tent camp away from the city for a week. Having broken up into teams, they developed real projects, both for the web and for desktops. Every day, specialists from organizing companies came to them and read workshops on topics from management to testing and code writing practices.
Branch of the department of measuring and computing complexes of UlSTU on the basis of ULSK.IT
The non-profit organization ULSK.IT (ITECH.group, “Script”, “Creative Development”, Echo), together with Ulyanovsk State Technical University, launched a new educational program this year, according to which students take part in the training “in production” - within the walls of IT companies, and teachers are employees of companies.
Professional movement
ULCAMP
In the summer of 2011, on the banks of the Volga, the Script Company held for the first time ULCAMP, an informal gathering of IT specialists from Ulyanovsk and invited guests. ULCAMP'2011 was the largest event of its kind in the region and served as a powerful incentive to strengthen ties within the IT community of Ulyanovsk.
In July 2012, ULCAMP turned into an international festival that received a considerable response in Russia and without a doubt became the most notable IT event of the past summer. That there is only a list of speakers: Sergey Belousov (Runa Capital), Peter Didenko (SKB Kontur), Sergey Zefirov, Sergey Kotyrev (UMI), Andrey Aksenov (Sphinx) and even Monty, the legendary creator of MySQL.
ULCAMP :: Dev
The desire to continue professional communication after the ULCAMP-2011 gathering led to the birth of ULCAMP :: Dev - periodic self-organizing meetings of IT people, at which professionals share their experiences, and newcomers get the opportunity to communicate with IT “gurus” (both local and invited guests from other cities) . Discusses the subtleties of the profession, new technologies and features of their application and much more. Meetings usually take place monthly during off-hours in the conference rooms of the offices of IT companies or in the lectures of UlSTU. Functional paradigms, development through testing, continuous integration, devops are discussed and implemented everywhere.
The main interaction takes place through the facebook group it_ulsk and ULCAMP :: Dev, with 400–500 members each . The groups also include colleagues from other regions. Many of them come to meetings with entire delegations (hello, CHEBiT! :), and also actively participate in discussions.
STRIKE
The first IT-conference “Strike” in Ulyanovsk was held in April 2012. More than 1000 people from different regions of the country took part in it. The conference turned out to be versatile, with reports on web development, marketing, IT startups. The speakers were commercial conference stars of highload.ru level: Roman Pavlushko (AVITO.ru), Alexander Titov (Skype), Alexey Rybak (Badoo), Alexey Makhotkin (undev.ru), Konstantin Osipov (mail.ru), Lev Valkin (Echo ), Dmitry Kozlov (DEFA), Andrey Yablonskikh, Dmitry Vasilyev (NetCat), Vasily Tkachev (AllInTop) and Ivan Nikitin (binn). The event was one of the largest in the Volga region, and at the same time - completely free for participants.
IT gatherings
“Sit-offs” is one of the most informal formats of the Ulyanovsk movement, allowing novice IT people (and those who want to become) to communicate with well-known technology bison in an informal setting: ask their questions, listen to success stories and participate in the discussion of current topics.
miscellanea
The above companies are pioneers and active participants of the IT movement in the Ulyanovsk region. They conduct master classes, organize meetings and discussions: regular testers meetings, round tables, chef-parties (devops), 24-hour hackathons, and even intercorporate celebration of Halloween. In addition, employees of several companies teach in Ulyanovsk universities.
Upcoming events
Railsclub - December 15–16
Due to the fact that a large and active community of Ruby / Rails developers has recently been formed in the city, the idea to hold a Railsclub conference in Ulyanovsk is long overdue. The organizers accepted the idea with interest, and now they are actively preparing. The speakers will include Maxim Lapshin, Alexey Palazhchenko (Skype), Andrei Rudenko (mail.ru), Lev Valkin, Nikolai Rekubratsky (undev.ru), Ivan Evtukhovich (express42), as well as representatives of companies Evil Martians, Evrone and others. Announcement of the event here .
"BUTTON" - April 5–6, 2013
Next year the event will be held in two days in the Leninsky memorial. The planned number of participants is 2500. Participation is free. Speakers are expected from companies Mail.ru, Yandex, Google, Badoo, Skype and many others.
ULCAMP - July 2013
In July 2013, the third international festival ULCAMP will take place.
Agilecamp - Summer 2013
After my stories about local IT, Scrumtrack decided to conduct training in the summer of 2013 in Ulyanovsk.
Future
Recently, we often hear from our colleagues from other regions that Ulyanovsk sounds more and more often and louder. This is due to the openness of companies and the expressed desire to establish horizontal links. Literally 4 years ago, the situation was not much different from our neighbors - everyone sat at their own “iron curtain” and saw only attempts to divert employees around. In 2010, it became clear that this was the way to a dead end.
Despite the existing differences between the companies, we are actively interacting and looking for common ground. For example, everyone is worried about the outflow of specialists to Moscow, and we are learning from each other to create more favorable conditions for employees. Largely due to this, the “brain drain” in the capital is indeed decreasing. Attracting investment and the emergence of new companies in Ulyanovsk are also in our area of ​​interest. We see how the exchange of experience and technological diversity leads to an increase in the overall technical and organizational level of local companies.
Sure steps have been taken to involve the regional authorities in civilized support of various aspects of IT operations. The Ministry of Information Technologies of the Ulyanovsk Region is a sponsor or co-organizer of many useful initiatives. And, although many issues are still being resolved without proper focus and professionalism, there is a chance to correct the situation and to the fact that our example of interaction between private and public initiatives will prove to be a worthy example for replication in other regions of Russia.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/157845/
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