Come to OpenCF Summit to talk freely and openly about the important issues facing the CFML community today. Since the open source CFML engine makers will be at OpenCF Summit, you can be assured that your ideas and opinions will be heard and that you’ll have a direct impact.

No one is excluded. All are welcome. No topic is off limits. We are at a critical juncture in the history of CFML, and we need to have open, frank discussions on the issues facing CFML today and learn how to solve them collectively to ensure a healthy future for CFML.

It’s an exciting time to be a CFML developer. Come to OpenCF Summit and help shape the future of CFML.

See you in Dallas, February 24-26, 2012!

One of the hottest areas in web development today is around the burgeoning open government and Gov 2.0 movements.  The opportunities in this space are huge, and as you might imagine developers who are leveraging the power of FOSS are at the forefront of Gov 2.0.

If you’re a CFML developer in government, you’re probably starting to hear rumblings about moving to more FOSS in your agency. Some of United States CIO Vivek Kundra’s initial remarks upon taking office were that FOSS is key to making government work better, at lower cost, and with greater transparency, and agencies across government at all levels are taking this to heart.

If you’re interested in working on side projects related to Gov 2.0 in your spare time, or taking advantage of the limitless business opportunities around Gov 2.0, you’ll learn about all the angles of Gov 2.0 at OpenCF Summit.

See you in Dallas, February 24-26, 2012!

At OpenCF Summit you’ll be interacting with the people behind Open BlueDragon, Railo, Mura, CFEclipse, Mach-II, ColdBox, CFWheels, and many other major open source CFML projects. Chances are you use their code, so come meet the people behind the code, thank them in person, and share your ideas with them!

If you’ve attended other conferences you know that where participants often get the most benefit is from hallway conversations, or from finding someone who can help you solve a problem, cracking open the laptops, and working on the solution together.

OpenCF Summit is designed to be a rather intimate event, and we’ve built in as many opportunities as we can to foster the open discussions and hacking that make tech conferences great.

You’ll leave OpenCF Summit with a lot of new knowledge to be sure, but more importantly you’ll leave with a tremendous amount of inspiration, and you’ll be ready to take on your toughest development challenges.

Come to OpenCF Summit and fall in love with CFML all over again.

See you in Dallas, February 24-26, 2012!

Open source is still a relatively new concept in the CFML world, so come learn more about what’s behind it, how it works, and how you can participate. You’ll also learn about open source licensing in terms we mere developers can understand.

One of the greatest powers of FOSS is its development methodologies, which are so well regarded that even companies that don’t release open source software use open source development processes within their company. Come learn how you can leverage the power of open source, regardless of whether or not you release any open source code.

See you in Dallas, February 24-26, 2012!

A big component of OpenCF Summit is an unconference, and in true unconference fashion it will evolve on the spot on site into whatever OpenCF Summit participants want and need it to be.

We already know many folks involved with the major CFML frameworks will be there, so you can expect talks on Mach-II, ColdBox, and others.

The great thing about an unconference is that everyone can be a speaker! So please share cool stuff you’ve been working on with CFML and in the web development world in general.

Perhaps more importantly, even if you don’t have expertise on a topic but want to learn more about it, chances are someone else at OpenCF Summit can help. Don’t be shy! Suggest topics for the unconference and get a discussion going right then and there.

We have a great schedule in the main track but if there’s a topic you don’t see there, just say the word and it’ll happen at the unconference.

At OpenCF Summit you’ll learn how to improve your development process and how to get more out of your production environments through sessions covering:

• How to create a powerful development stack using completely free softwaret
• How to more powerfully and easily debug your CFML applications, making you much more productive and leading to more bug-free code
• How to deploy your CFML applications to the cloud
• The ins and outs of running CFML at scale from the people who run some of the biggest CFML apps in the world

See you in Dallas, February 24-26, 2012!

OpenCF Summit is the only CFML conference where you’ll interact directly with the smart, generous folks who build Open BlueDragon, Railo, Mura, CFEclipse, and many of the CFML frameworks, all in the same place at the same time.

At OpenCF Summit you will:

• Receive installation and configuration assistance with the open source CFML engines as well as other open source software commonly used by CFML developers
• Participate in hands-on sessions covering Open BlueDragon, Railo, and Mura
• Learn about CFML frameworks at the unconference from the developers who build them

OpenCF Summit’s low attendee-to-speaker ratio means you’ll absolutely have the opportunity to get whatever help you need.

Three days and free training, $72. Doesn’t get better than that.

If you get one solid productivity-enhancing or money-saving tip out of OpenCF Summit (and trust us, you’ll get more than your brain can hold), even when factoring in travel and hotel expenses, the conference easily pays for itself. You can’t afford not to come!

And at only $72, particularly if you’re located around the Dallas area, register and come to the sessions you can! Maybe you want to learn more about OpenBD or Railo, $72 is still an incredible value. The networking opportunities alone are well worth the cost of admission.  And hotel is only $99/night and it's a suite!

From the beginning we wanted OpenCF Summit to be low on price, high on quality. Thanks to our great speakers and sponsors we’ve achieved that. Our speakers are the leaders of the open source CFML movement, and we also have Dan Martin from MasterCard International coming to talk about online payment processing, and Gov 2.0 guru Ean Schuessler will be teaching participants how to leverage open source to hack the civic stack.

See you in Dallas, February 24-26, 2012!

Open source isn’t only about saving money, though that’s certainly one big reason to consider FOSS. Companies who use open source software also cite better support, quicker bug fixes, faster implementation of new features, improved security, and a host of other benefits.

Given that over 90% of businesses today use FOSS the question is not if your business should use FOSS, it’s why you’re not already taking advantage of all FOSS has to offer.

FOSS is also ideally suited to the cloud, so if your business is looking to move your applications to environments like Amazon Web Services or Google App Engine, you’ll learn how at OpenCF Summit.

Come to OpenCF Summit to learn how to save your company money and improve your development and deployment flexibility by using free and open source software.

See you in Dallas February 24-26, 2012!