Things have settled down a little on organising Code Generation 2007 this week allowing me to focus on tying up some loose ends and looking forward to what remains to be done before the event. 

The previous week saw the event programme go live, followed shortly by booking opening. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback on the programme - which is rather nice to hear - and the first bookings have started to come in, which is even nicer

We’ve decided to run an early-bird booking period until Friday 16th March to encourage people to book early (duh!) . Early-bird bookers get a £100 discount - we get less stress by being able to predict more accurately how many people will come to the event.

Members of OMG, The IET and IASA and CBDI Forum Gold and Silver members all get a 10% discount.  These organisations have all been very supportive of the event.

This week has seen the focus shift to pinning down some things like where and when we’ll have the conference dinner, what form the other social activities will take and what we need to do to finalize arrangements on the day.

On Wednesday I met up with Andy Moorley of Truedata who are our excellent event administrators. Andy is an old hand at such things having been involved in the organisation of the SPA conference series for several years and has been a guiding light on the admin side for CG2007. If you’re thinking of organising a software-related event (and I advise you to think carefully about what you’re getting into) then you could do worse than get in touch with Truedata to handle the administration side.