{"id":303,"date":"2008-05-30T14:06:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/im-sponsoring-360flex\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:43:01","slug":"im-sponsoring-360flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/im-sponsoring-360flex\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sponsoring 360|Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/360flex.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/360flex_sanjose_badge200.gif?resize=158%2C63&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"360flex_sanjose_badge200.gif\" height=\"63\" width=\"158\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px; margin-bottom:10px;\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m an official sponsor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/360flex.com\">360|Flex<\/a> conference! I think I am the first and only &#8220;just a normal guy&#8221; (not a company or independent contractor) to be a sponsor. I&#8217;m not looking for clients, I&#8217;m not looking for work&#8230; I&#8217;m just a dude who likes the conference. I like it so much that I was really sad about not being able to speak at the next 360|Flex in San Jose in August. So since I can&#8217;t be there, I figured out how to get my face in front of y&#8217;all anyway \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m sponsoring the official 360|Flex shirt that all attendees will get and all you suckas have to wear my silly face on your sleeve. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image304\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screenshot057.jpg?resize=108%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"screenshot057.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"108\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left:10px; margin-bottom:10px; border:1px solid silver;\"\/>Check out all the sponsor logos on the 360|Flex site (screenshot on the right). You see that dumbass-looking face with the thumbs? That&#8217;s me!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the hell?<\/strong><br \/>\nI owe a lot to 360|Flex. At the first one in San Jose back in March 2007 I made a ton of contacts that have helped me professionally. I happened to sit next to Tom Link and Brett Cortese from <a href=\"http:\/\/universalmind.com\">Universal Mind<\/a> in the back of some session and we started talking. Now I&#8217;m a full-time employee with Universal Mind doing sweet Flex work. I got some of my work shown off in the keynote of that conference too, and people started hearing my name and wondering who I was. <\/p>\n<p>Then at the second 360|Flex I did my first-ever conference presentation (on custom Flex component development). Suddenly I was somehow an authoritative Flex developer, and the main reason I actually spoke at that conference was because <a href=\"http:\/\/lordbron.wordpress.com\/\">Tom Ortega<\/a> asked me to in one of our local Flex user group meetings (in addition to planning 360|Flex, Tom also runs <a href=\"http:\/\/silvafug.org\">SilVaFug<\/a>). I made a lot of friends at that conference and felt like I really became a part of the Flex community. And then I had a blast at the last 360|Flex in Atlanta, where I spoke again. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Cha-ching<\/strong><br \/>\nI make damn good money as a Flex developer, and I owe a lot of that to the fame and connections I made at the 360|Flex conferences. So this is my little way of paying some of that back. So thank you Tom and John for all your hard work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an official sponsor of the 360|Flex conference! I think I am the first and only &#8220;just a normal guy&#8221; (not a company or independent contractor) to be a sponsor. I&#8217;m not looking for clients, I&#8217;m not looking for work&#8230; I&#8217;m just a dude who likes the conference. 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