Seriously? Running a developer event during COVID-19 times?
With people hardly traveling at all it sounded too good to be true.
BASTA is one of the leading developer conferences in Germany for the .NET community. As a sponsor for BASTA Fall in Mainz 2020, we were curious to see how a hybrid conference with online and onsite attendees works out.
It’s been a challenging year for all of us. Such an event in these difficult times is totally different to what we attended for many years. Just about 10% of the typical number of attendees was onsite and many more participants joined online watching talks and sessions in real-time. The Swapcard platform allowed raising questions through a chat system. All tracks were streamed live and recorded for later playback.
Our team contributed two sessions to the conference program:
- Migrating Business Applications from Desktop to Web with Wisej
Günter Hofmann (CEO of our partner Fecher) gave a 60-minute introduction presenting how easy it is to modernize and web-enable applications with Wisej.
https://basta.net/user-interface/migrieren-oder-neuentwickeln-mit-komplexen-anwendungen-vom-desktop-ins-web/ - Bulid Complex Application with Wisej: Rapid and Cross-platform
The second talk was presented by Thomas Althammer (founding partner of ITG), who build a small CRM application with Wisej and added features live on stage. He integrated Google Maps, a ChartJS graph, QR-code scanning and deployed that application live as a desktop app, as a Windows service, on IIS, on Azure, on Android with Wisej mobile and gave a sneak preview of Wisej 3 running on a Raspberry Pi with Linux… all in 60 minutes.
https://basta.net/web-development/komplexe-web-anwendungen-mit-net-core-realisieren-rapid-und-cross-plattform-mit-wisej/
We chatted with several remote participants that would have loved to come to Mainz. Watching the videos at home or in the office is just not like being at a conference, exhanging thoughts and ideas, and learning more about the newest hypes and discussions.
If you are interested to see our slides or watch the videos, please drop us a line and we share the recordings with you.
Despite all odds: It was great to be there and we look forward to seeing you all again next year! Many thanks to the BASTA team! They did a great job and presented a well-prepared concept so that we felt safe at all times.
