The full programme for May’s BCS Configuration Management Group conference is now on-line.

My talk on Variant Management, co-written with Danilo Beuche of pure-systems, will run on Wednesday 16th May. (Find out more about the talk at my earlier post “A better way of building software variants?“.)

An early-bird registration period for the conference will run until 23rd March. However, if you’re interested in variant management we have two FREE one-day tickets for the conference.

Write to me on or before 23rd March telling me why you would like to hear my talk and we will give the tickets to the people we feel have given the best responses. NB Unfortunately there are some restrictions in who we can give these tickets to: we can only give these to people from different organisations and you must not be an existing member of BCS CMSG, or have been a member in 2006).

Update 24th March

Competition closed. Thanks for the feedback.

Despite noting in my last CG2007 planning update that I’d had a chance to take a break from event planning, things have got busy again…

Bookings continue to come in and this has meant the occasional email asking for more details has had to be dealt with.

I’ve also been working with a couple of people on the conference social events. Details are still being finalised (and kept under wraps) but this will include a conference dinner and some sort of tour of Cambridge.

We’ve also been promoting the event quite heavily over the last couple of weeks. Aside from adverts on the Code Generation Network this has also meant online advertising campaigns with Google Adwords and the Yahoo equivalent. Managing these campaigns and tuning them to reach the right people takes a bit of time and experimentation, particularly as this is the first year the event has been run.

Aside from that there is all the usual stuff when bringing together a large number of people for any type of event - dealing with speakers, sponsors, participants, administrators and venue staff, and assembling them all in the right place for the right length of time takes some doing