Snowcode 2014 - NoSQL Unconference - La Clusaz 19th-26th January

BOOK YOUR TICKET FOR SNOWCODE 2014 - Only £100 deposit.

Top developers from Europe take over a ski chalet and Ski-board and code! What could be better? ;-D

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Booking for snowcode 2014 NoSQL unconference now open. Early booking closed on Friday 8th November.

About the coding!

Free language and vendor agnostic NoSQL Unconference held at an awesome ski resort ...CouchDB, RavenDB, mongoDB, Redis, Cassandra,ElasticSearch, object databases, riak, roll your own (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw81UkWmww), Lucene, HTML 5 (SPA's) also, HTML 5 (SPA's - single page applications), mobile app development, Neo4J....whatever you're in to ;-D

Last Snowcode we got feedback of what everyone wanted...

, ...great location, great venue, good snow, POWDER !!! , not too busy resort, somewhere different just for a change, some conferency type facilities ... and, ..most importantly ... pricing, ...you asked us to try to get a cracking deal, and a special lift pass price,. Well we've finally cracked it, ... £595! An absolutely stunner of a chalet, ... Noms to die for (7 days catering without having to take a night off).

... as of course as a kick ass NoSQL unconference in the mountains.... everything for only £595!

he says with a huge smug grin on his face! ;-D

• £ 595 - accommodation, half board (Awesome NOMS!)
• book your own flights, and pay £50 for transfer)
• NoSQL unconfererence ( free! as always )
• £ 165 - Superbly priced 6 day lift pass!

HOW TO BOOK:

1. RSVP here, pay £100 via meetup (paypal), you will be asked for mobile number and email address.
2. we will contact you and give you the booking reference number as well as telephone number of who to call at Absolutely Snow, to make the balance of the payment for accommodation (£595 less £100 deposit = £495) + any optional extras you need from them, flights, transfer
3. you call Absolutely snow and pay the balance
4. you book your own flights or purchase flights from Absolutely Snow

Lastly: if you have any trouble booking, please call and speak to me (Alan) on 07734157754.

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Overnight train (for those travelling by train):

This is going to be an insane fantastic group trip. We travel all together as a group by Eurostar to Paris, then overnight TGV (in 6 sleeper "courchettes") to Annecy where you'll be picked up, and a short transfer to the Chalet in La Clusaz. A completely civilized way to travel, no luggage restrictions, no mad rush queuing for hours and waiting at airports, take a stroll over to St Pancras with your board or skis, and chill out on the train to Paris, then put your head down and sleep ... or party on the overnight and wake up in the mountains.

About the diggs ( Chalet Hirondelle )

Chalet Les Hirondelles is spacious and truly luxurious with upgraded facilities and plenty of space to relax and unwind. Log fires, cosy lounges (three, two of these have log fires), stunning location, sun terrace and peace and quiet make this chalet the ideal Alpine getaway location. Add to this the attentive personal service and chauffeur driven vehicles to take you to and from the skiing you have the perfect luxury holiday retreat. If we said that the guest list has included Sting and family then you will get the idea!

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Below is a foto from Snowcode 2012.

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La Clusaz (About the resort): If you haven’t heard of La Clusaz it is because it isn’t teeming with English – which is refreshing. The ski area is a sizeable 220km, definitely good for all levels but especially intermediates. Unlike some of the more famous areas, the slopes don’t get too busy and there are some very accessible powder options. Unlike some of the more famous places the powder doesn’t get tracked out, so if there is fresh snow we are in for crazy times! Our venue has meeting rooms, projectors, wifi + more, perfect for teams to break away & code on crazy shit till wee hours.

About the NoSQL unconference:
Take a dash of some of the smartest developers around, and sprinkle of inspirational mountains and snow, and you have one of the most chilled way possible to spend a week coding and learning and sharing as well as great networking. On the first evening session topics are voted for and selected with break out areas allocated so that there's a full week of intense working hard, and playing hard, you choose how much and when of each. Previous snowcode-s typically have been morning till afternoon ... hit the snow, and coding workshops and sessions in the evening till late. If there's poor visibility (whiteout or other) on any day, then head back early crack through that new framework or pair on some technical problem.

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Each year we pick a different theme for Snowcode that's language neutral, giving us the opportunity to attract great minds from across the industry remaining language agnostic. last year's theme was Node.JS + CSS + Html 5...and this year's theme was an absolute no-brainer ... it just had to be NoSQL! Choosing a language agnostic theme allows .net developers to pair program and code alongside java devs, and/or Ruby or node.js devs, it doesn't matter what language you're most comfortable with, you can learn and share with each other best practices and latest NoSQL libraries and frameworks. Whatever your poison ... Mongo, Couch, Riak, Neo, Redis, Hbase, plus many more... it doesn't matter whether you're into columns or tables or graphs!

Here's a video from a previous snowcode to give you a feel for the vibe of a typical snowcode event! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw81UkWmww)

• Some useful links:
• Fotos from last year's Snowcode (theme was Node.js, CSS & html 5) (https://www.meetup.com/CAMDUG/photos/7021592/)

• Blog post about Snowcode from a Snowcode addict (http://dylanbeattie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/snowcode-2012.html) ;-D

La Clusaz webcam. (http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/La-Clusaz/webcams/latest) (Snows already falling, checkout the webcams, as early as 12 October the resort was white! It's going to be a super super powder season.)

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(photo above of one of the lounges for the snowcode 2014 chalet)

• • • • • • • • • • • • • GUYS WHO ARE SUPPORTING US - - - - -
                          ( either by sending an evangelist to be at Snowcode and help run sessions on their tech, and/or by helping get the word out about snowcode.)

Thanks to Ewa and the great folk at Trifork (Trifork are the organisers of many conferences, QCon, GOTO, NoSQL Search and more (http://www.trifork.com/conferences)) for helping us with a great jungledrum shout out message to their NoSQL community. Super appreciated, thanks guys! ;-D