Dev Summit 2008 is now over and done. Great to see so many old friends and meet tons of new ones. This conference is "the" event for developers working with the ESRI product line, so if you could not make it this year, start working on your managers now to get approval for next year.

One idea that ESRI threw out at the closing session was the idea of running another "track" that would be technical sessions presented by users. I think this would be awesome (and not just because I'd love to give a talk!). I briefly talked with them after the Q&A session was over and the idea would be that the developers would be able to submit some sort of a description of the presentation, and then the rest of the community would vote for the sessions they want to see. This would be fantastic. If this sounds like a good idea... um... yeah. I just looked for a link on EDN to send feedback (about something other than the site itself), but did not find anything that looked suitable. Just leave a comment, and I'll find out the best way to push that back to ESRI.

While decompressing on the lawn outside the conference center, it occurred to me that having some other smaller, focused, but really technical events at other times during the year would be a great addition to the Dev Summit. Sure they could not drag the dev teams all over the place (someone has to work on 9.4!) but maybe bring some folks from tech support / professional services? Just an idea...

A quick note on my posts from this week - they were just the notes, as I typed them during the sessions, and I hope that was useful for those who could not make it out here. If something was particularly cryptic, shoot me an email, and I'll see if I can figure out what I meant.

It's been a fun week, and thanks to everyone at ESRI for putting on a consistently excellent event. See you next year!