Three events in the next 45 Days in Munich, Santa Clara and Boston.

Munich, Germany. 2-3 May 2007

Entwicklerkonferenz 2007 in München will feature two speakers about Skype on Day 2.  

• Dick Schiferli, CEO, PamConsult.
  "Skype-API: Entwickeln Sie Applikationen für 171 Millionen Skype-Nutzer"
  (Skype-API: develop apps for 171 million skype users) [note: time to update that number!]
• Christoph Bünger, CTO, Scendix.
  "Die eBay-Plattform im Wohnzimmer: eBay und Skype auf dem TV"
  (The eBay platform in the living room: eBay and Skype on the TV)

Lester Madden will be there from Skype London.

Santa Clara, California. 14-17 May 2007

Paul Amery, Skype's top developer relations evangelist, will keynote at TMC's Communications Developer Conference in Silicon Valley on Wednesday, 16 May. The "Voice Service Mashups" session, in the Service Oriented Architecture track (my favorite) will feature Skype. The CDC is probably the biggest gathering of VoIP programmers anywhere in the world and a great opportunity to recruit hands-on geeks.

I'll be there too. We should have a Skype Journal dinner. Call me for an invitation.

Boston, Massachusetts. 11-13 June 2007 

eBay Developers Conference. Skype's info isn't on the event site yet, but last year they had about a dozen Skype engineers leading workshops and talking with eBay/PayPal community. It's only 45 days away - look for hotel space now.

I'm Begging all event organizers: AUDIO AND VIDEO TAPE ALL THE SESSIONS, EVEN THE BREAKOUT SESSIONS, AND POST THEM ON YOUR DEVZONE. Thousands of programmers cannot be there. Sharing multiplies your event's reach for the whole next year. It is cheap if you want it to be: €4000 gets you three consumer grade cameras, three tripods to put them on, memory sticks, and three mp3 recorders. Ask for a volunteer in each breakout session to work the camera and have a staffer upload the videos to Google Video or wherever you like. THIS IS DOCUMENTATION, NOT MARKETING. SHARE THE DOCUMENTATION. Thank you.