PHPBenelux Conference 2016
29 - 30 Jan 2016 at Ter Elst

Bumper cars are cool.

Interesting talk to reflect on your outlook on development. Good guidelines to use when thinking about your own behaviour.

First time I've seen Cal talk and at first I wasn't sure what to expect, besides that it had to be good because it's Cal Evans we're talking about here.

I was not disappointed.

The personal story at the start of the talk threw me a bit off guard, but it was a nice bit of information to understand the motivation behind Cal's push for a stronger community.

Although the subject itself was a bit too much on the technical side of things for me, as someone with very limited knowledge in the field, I really liked the presentation. Bastian is easy to listen to, has a great way of presenting with a well thought-out presentation and recapping every question. Would invite him to speak at our meetup any day.

Despite the hiccups at the beginning of the tutorial (running late, empty GitHub repository etc.), I definitely learned a lot from this tutorial and thoroughly enjoyed it. The pace was somewhat too high in some areas, which made it hard to keep up with the slides and read what you had written.

Overall I liked this tutorial. Good job.

Interesting talk, but for me it didn't really click.

I completely understand the power of community and understood the message of Cal. However the tweetables felt cheesy to me, I missed the overall structure and some sense of direction. This doesn't mean it's a bad talk, just that I didn't enjoy it as much.

First of all, I love the organizer's choice for this talk to be keynote. The well-delivered talk really hit the right tone of voice for setting the conference atmosphere. Even though -nearly- everyone in the audience already knew that community is an important part of a dev's job, otherwise they wouldn't be there, the way Cal talked about community really showed there's even more to it.

If you organize a conference or meetup and you can have Cal give this talk, do so!

Very well planned and quick to get through.

It was easy to find the check-in desk that was well prepared and there was enough staff available to make this a smooth experience. Well done!

Went very smooth.