The following post is the first in a series documenting our ongoing planning and production of the Stack Overflow DevDays 2011 conference series.Â
Upon joining the Stack Exchange team in April 2011, one of the first meetings I went to was a sit down to discuss the plans for our DevDays 2011 conference. Most conferences start their planning at least a year out, so we were already a bit under the gun given that we were targeting a September start for the conferences.
The first question was about the scale of the conferences. Our only previous comparison was to the 2009 DevDays: a one-day stop i …