Yesterday, I attended the first day of my company’s huge T³ conference. It was something else and a little different then the software conferences that I’m used to attending. Nearly 3000 people there. So many teachers from around the world. It made me appreciated the reach our software and hardware has a bit more getting to see how large our customer base is. As a software developer, I think we sometimes get separated from our customers through so many layers, and for me it was great to get to meet so many of them. One part thing I love about our company is that we try to get everyone in just about every role out there to interact and listen to our customers. Everyone from software developers, QA testers, project managers, distribution, sales, marketing, customer service, product managers, HR, configuration management, hardware/electrical engineers, and just about everyone else in our division came out to help with the conference.

I also met up with the Vernier guys there, one of the members of the GNOME Mobile community, and I got to play with their new GNOME based LabQuest. The Vernier guys are awesome. I’ve enjoyed working with them in the past to make sure that our TI-Nspire product works with their Vernier EasyTemp®/Go!® Temp/Go!® Motion probes and sensors, so they can power the data collection features of our product. The Vernier guys are big Linux supporters which is nice to see.