Beerconf

The first mini-conference in beer meetup format took place on April 14 in Chelyabinsk:

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



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

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

Objectives:

• To say and be heard;
• We are interested in new knowledge and experience;
• We do not pursue the goals of public relations, the promotion of any areas or tools for the development, advertising of alcoholic beverages (we want to - we will pursue;)).

BeerConf is:

• Informal friendly atmosphere;
• The opportunity for new acquaintances and strengthening existing relationships;
• Communication of developers of various directions and exchange of experience;
• A place where you can chat with your colleagues from other companies, be heard, get good advice;
• Free, profile and thematic meetings: web, mobile applications, best practices and so on;
• Between you and the speaker is only a few meters and a glass of tea;
• Once a month (or maybe more or less).

Formats of reports of an informal conference:

• pecha
• reports-questions
• all the rest

At our first meeting, we discussed:

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

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

Information on the upcoming meetings can be found on Twitter - twitter.com/beerconf
And on our website - www.beerconf.ru - as you can see, we love the principles of KISS and YAGNI . We think if 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 only be happy :) You may not inform us - 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