Forum Discussion
Reserve your spot at PAUG Conference April 28-30!
Are you attending one of the biggest and best Access conferences in the world? It's only 6 weeks away!
3 Days, 2 Nights.
14 Topics.
A beautiful natural setting near Salem, Oregon.
Evening social times.
Lodging and meals included.
Register now before it sells out!
http://paug.com/conference/
Silver Falls Conference Center
The conference is held at the Silver Falls State Park Conference Center in Oregon and I LOVE the Saturday morning hikes through the water falls on the first day of the conference!
- The PAUG is always a highlight of my year. Looking forward to a recharge.
- Nice idea, but your holding it in the wrong place. Need to do it in the tech center of the east coast - Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill (Reasearch Triangle) of North Carolina!! (Go Pack (next year....))
Mark,
when i last mentioned my conferences and activities in Europe in the LI discussion group you answered "Now if we can generate buzz here on this side [of the pond]".
So there is sth happening inside your small country ;-) and now you are pinning to "North Carolina". Come on, move a bit!
:-)
Karl
Hey Karl! Good to hear from you again! I guess I'm just jealous of those areas where Access seems to be a thriving enterprise. Here in the Research Triangle Park area of NC, we have a lot of tech companies and other businesses as well as 3 major universities and tech community colleges, but Access is laughed at and shunned. Everyone is excited about those technologies for creating a business to sell. As an Access developer who got his start in the 1990's there was a lot of need for Access developers then. Now, the recruiting agencies report about 1-2 request a year for an Access developer, but hundreds of request for Excel VBA, .Net, SQL Server/SSIS/SSRS, Office 365, and SharePoint. Excel/Access/VBA developer rates are $35-$45/hr, SQL Server/SSIS/SSRS rates are $50-$60/hr and .Net are $55-$65/hr. Higher for mobile and big data. Trying to find people interested in Access/VBA development just gets you some funny looks in this area. But I'll keep plugging away. Hopefully there will be some development in Access capabilities that will grab people's attention again, but I'm not holding my breath.....
Mark.
How about getting your local Access user group to sponsor a similar conference for your area? That would be really sweet for those who would like to participate in something like the PORTLAND Access User Group's annual conference--which is logically enough near Portland, Oregon--but can't travel that far.
It's always a great experience, but space is always limited. A second, or third, conference modeled on it would be a really good way for more local developers to share the excitement closer to home.
