We are deep in the planning stages of NIWeek. Rather than guess about what you might want to see, hear, and learn about at NIWeek, I thought I’d open up to the community. Personally, I have a number of specific things I would like to communicate at NIWeek – so I’ll ask for feedback on these ideas and then open the discussion to any new ideas as well:
1. Developer Conference – Because LabVIEW is reaching into so many applications now, NIWeek has shifted to be more application focused (RF/Wireless, Sound & Vibration, Robotics, etc). These application summits are great for people in those areas, but we may have taken the focus off of hardcore LabVIEW programming techniques and tactics. I want to get back to the deeply technical “LabVIEW Developer Conference” idea. With that in mind, what would you like to learn more about?
2. Roadmaps – We have big plans for LabVIEW, in a lot of different dimensions. Most of you are not aware of these plans. I think if you were, you would be excited and appreciate where we are going. I would like to share some of these plans with you at NIWeek (assuming I can fend off our legal and communications teams that wourld try to block me). One small example just went live on our website regarding our OS support plans. Let me know what specific questions you have about our future plans.
3. Extending/Plugging into LabVIEW – We are working on ways to open up LabVIEW for partners and customers to more easily integrate with the platform (to connect with other tools, share data, or create addon products). I hope to unveil some of our ideas on this topic at NIWeek.
Please comment with other ideas that you’d like to see more about at NIWeek.
May 6, 2009 at 2:05 pm |
In reference to point #1 above, I started a thread on the NI Discussion Forums looking for feedback on the advanced LabVIEW sessions we have lined up. Any thoughts on the topics listed there?
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=BreakPoint&thread.id=7302
May 14, 2009 at 4:45 pm |
The developers track is certainly something I would have liked. When I was there, there were enough sessions, but I would liked to have more advanced ones, potentially also for soliciting feedback for future features.
Jeff K’s keynote demos of things in R&D are cool and it would certainly be nice if there were sessions which focused on that.
This year I’m not going to be there, but maybe next year?