Agile Finland News

November 15, 2007 by Artem Marchenko

I am leaving in Finland and I am trying to follow the local agile community news. There is a local Agile Finland website, some free seminars with the world-class speakers and quite active discussion group. This week something significant happened there and I am happy to share the news that the community is going to be become more official and at some point (in a year?) we might even be able to organize a local conference!

- Agile Finland will be officially established as an association (ry)
- Agile Finland will organize a seminar in March with Mary Poppendieck
as the guest speaker
- Agile Finland will evaluate whether there is sufficient interest and
commitment to organize a yearly conference about Agile, organized by
an association free of any commercial ties (but with sponsors). The
aim would be to make this conference a focus point of the community
and an independent and reputable source for Agile knowledge world-wide.

This news might not be of much interest for those who never or rarely visit Finland, but to me it is rather exciting. What about the place where you leave? Is the agile community active there? Do you organize local seminars or gatherings?

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