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If you are bringing your spouse and/or family there is a lot to see and do in the Triangle area...

Kids?

During the weekend of the conference the NC State Fair will be underway.  Head out, eat some fried food and hop on a few rides! Marbles Kids Museum is a fun, hands-on/educational museum.  Spend the morning playing and then catch an IMAX movie in the afternoon.  NC Natural Science Museum - one word - dinosaurs. Three floors of entertainment and the History Museum is right across the street.  Both are free.

Another favorite is Durham's North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. Great mix of indoor exhibits, outdoor areas, butterfly building and more.  If you like space they have several very impressive displays including a full size Moon lander.

Shopping

Several big malls are in the area.  Crabtree Valley Mall features an Apple AND Lego store. What are you waiting for??

Art

Interested in art? We have several great museums in the area: The North Carolina Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Museum and nearby Duke University.  There are also many smaller museums and galleries in town!

Music

Spend an evening with the NC Symphony, rock out at the world famous Cat's Cradle or any of the other great live music nightspots in Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill. We have everything from classical to country, from rap to rock.

Check out the Travel/Hotel page for more local links!

Conference badges are now available for the ColdFusion in North Carolina Conference.  Whether you are a sponsor, speaker, or attending the conference, we ask that you show your support in what is shaping up to be an great conference by placing a badge on your blog and/or website.  You can get the badges at http://cfinnc.com/page.cfm/badges.

Sample badges:

The ColdFusion in North Carolina committee will shortly begin the process of deciding on presentations/topics for the conference.  We hope to have a wide variety of topics to choose from.  To that end, we would like to get some feedback from you, our potential attendees on what you are interested in or would like to hear.  This is your chance to help shape this conference into what we hope will be educational, interesting, useful, and fun.

Please vist http://www.cfinnc.com/page.cfm/contact-us to provide feedback on topics you would like to see.  Please specify "Presentation Feedback" at the beginning of your message so we can be sure that we review it. 

We look forward to your feedback/input, and hope you are able to attend.

The ColdFusion in North Carolina 2009 conference planning committee is now accepting submissions for presentation proposals. There will be a number of nationally known speakers as well as regional and local presenters.  We are hoping to get a wide variety of topics that will be interesting and useful for all levels of developers.

The current format for the conference is as follows:

*There will be two, concurrent tracks of 50 minute presentations.
*Plans are for six to seven sessions on Saturday and five sessions on Sunday.
*There may be several combined sessions where the room divider would be removed for larger presentations.

The follow are information and guidelines for proposal submission.

* The deadline for submitting proposals to present is August 1, 2009.
* You will be notified by August 17, 2009, if your proposal has been selected or not
* Presentations will be limited to 50 minutes, so please make sure you can cover your topic in that amount of time.
* The organizers will assume that your presentations are your own work or that you have permission to use all materials you present: You will be required to note on the application whether there are distribution limits to your materials.
* This is an educational event. Vendor specific topics are off-limits, no selling of products on-site.
* The organizing committee retains the rights to turn down any proposal for any reason, but intends to be as inclusive as possible.

Remember:  The deadline to submit topics is August 1st so submit your entry now!

Interested in presenting?  Visit our online submission form.  Please complete the form with as much detail about what you would like to present plus any other information that might be helpful to us.

Dan has already blogged a few times about the North Carolina ColdFusion conference:

• NC Conference - New Date Proposed (June 21, 2009)
• Need Feedback on Proposed Date for NC ColdFusion Conference (June 17, 2009)
• ColdFusion Conference Coming To Raleigh-Durham North Carolina (April 29, 2009)