Agile India.

The Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) is organizing the 2nd Annual Agile Conference in Bengaluru on 22nd and 23rd Jan 2010 named Agile Bengaluru 2010.

For the first time in India, we’ll have 4 Gordon Pask Award Winners at a single conference:

• David Hussman
• Jeff Patton
• J. B. Rainsberger
• And yours truly

The conference theme this year is “Post-Modern Agile - Be done with the Dogma“. The conference is really targeted at Agile practitioners, who want to explore ideas beyond the basic Agile stuff.

Also this year, for the first time, we are hosting the World-famous Programming with the Stars contest during the conference.

After the standard proposal submission and review process we have the final conference program published - http://www.agileindia.org/agilebengaluru2010/agile-bengaluru-2010-program.htm.

If you are interested in participating in the conference, hurry up and register for the conference here: http://www.agileindia.org/agilebengaluru2010/agile-bengaluru-2010-registration.htm We have limited 125 seats total.

Also for those who cannot attend the Bengaluru conference, don’t worry. We have another conference in Mumbai. Check out: Agile Mumbai 2010 Conference.

Please use the #agile_bengaluru_2010 Twitter tag.

The Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) is organizing the 3rd Annual Agile Conference in Mumbai on 16th and 17th Jan 2010 named Agile Mumbai 2010. The conference is hosted by Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering, Mumbai.

For the first time in India, we’ll have 4 Gordon Pask Award Winners at a single conference:

• David Hussman
• Jeff Patton
• J. B. Rainsberger
• And yours truly

The conference theme this year is “Post-Modern Agile - Be done with the Dogma“. The conference is really targeted at Agile practitioners, who want to explore ideas beyond the basic Agile stuff.

Also this year, for the first time, we are hosting the World-famous Programming with the Stars contest during the conference.

After the standard proposal submission and review process we have the final conference program published - http://www.agileindia.org/agilemumbai2010/agile-mumbai-2010-program.htm.

If you are interested in participating in the conference, hurry up and register for the conference here: http://www.agileindia.org/agilemumbai2010/agile-mumbai-2010-registration.htm We have limited 125 seats total.

Also for those who cannot attend the Mumbai conference, don’t worry. We have another conference coming up in Bengaluru. Check out: Agile Bengaluru 2010 Conference.

Please use the #agile_mumbai_2010 Twitter tag.

This year, Laurent Bossavit and J. B. Rainsberger have taken over as the Directors of the Gordon Pask Award Program. They invite you to participate in the Gordon Pask Award program. They would like to improve the program in a number of ways, including collecting nominations throughout the year, researching candidates’ contributions to the agile community and giving everyone a greater chance to get to know past winners. We need your help to do this well.

For the moment, we seek volunteers to help with work such as:

• advertise and promote our initiatives on weblogs, in discussion groups, in user groups, at conferences, and wherever you can garner attention
• design a physical Gordon Pask Award prize
• interview Brian Marick about the story behind instituting the Gordon Pask Award in 2005
• interview past award winners and write articles about them
• connect the program with public relations or press outlets to help promote the award and raise its profile in the larger software community
• suggest changes to the nomination process
• suggest something special for the fifth year of the award (2009)
• design a logo and color scheme for the Gordon Pask Award

If you would like to help, please send email to gordonpaskaward@agilealliance.org and tell them how you’d like to help. You might tell them you’d simply like to help in whatever capacity needed, or that you have a specific task or project in mind to which to contribute. We welcome all comers.