OpenWest 2014
8 - 10 May 2014 at Utah Valley University

Great approach and great content

Great topic and discussion

I appreciated the insight into considering a wider demographic of information that comes with various types of users. I will definitely be more open-thinking when it comes to UX. However, you wouldn't move off of the "sexual orientation" topic and were stuck on it for about 25 full minutes without demonstrating a single practical solution. You had a great overall topic and could have covered numerous situations and conditions. Next time move through it faster and focus more on solutions, rather than pushing propaganda. I don't have a problem with discussing sexual orientation as part of the problem, but you could have covered a lot of ground. I had to step out for the last 15 minutes. I can't stand the F-word - very unprofessional and inconsiderate.

Great pres. I'm not sure if you remember but I've been conflicted between Angular and Ember. It was nice to review a straight up comparison and get some good insights into how you use Angular. Sorry I skipped out on the backbone part (less interested in that and I had a 2 hour commute home).

I'm really sad that I arrived for only the last half (long commute from Ogden, I wanted to sleep in Saturday). For the time I was there I did take some serious notes. I could tell the whole thing must have been a good presentation. I wish there had more more "project management" type presentations like yours at OpenWest.

I talked to you after the presentation (mostly to your co-worker). The Q&A format didn't really work out. We asked a bunch of questions but I felt like you just led into your presentation anyway - I know you were conflicted with that idea and it would have been hard to pull off in a timely manner. Next time it's probably just best to stick to the presentation - maybe at the end for the last 10 minutes you could open it up to a vote (ex: "Should I talk more about X topic or Y topic"?) However, I liked your examples and how you worked around the performance issues. Too bad we didn't have more time!

Very useful coverage of continuous code delivery. Though I kinda tuned out during the saltstack part. I expected to see more theoretical methods and less saltstack demoing.

Very easy to understand - maybe that was just because I'd already done the todo tutorial before. One thing I would have liked to see is some way you could show some of Ember's features that distinguishes it from other MV* "frameworks" like AngularJS and Backbone. Either way - well done. P.S. when I saw your QR code in the front of the classroom I used my QR reader app (not knowing it was yours) to scan it. I was pleasantly surprised to see it brought up the app I already had. Thanks for the sticker!