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Brad Wood

May 02, 2013

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This is your last chance to sign up to speak at this year's ColdBox Developers Week.  We want community involvement, so if you're not on Team ColdBox or Team ContentBox you'll get a $25 Amazon gift card for helping out if you're chosen to present.   I need to get all the topic submissions in and finalized by May 20th!
 
If you are available between June 17-21st this year and want to give a 30-45 minute online presentation as part of CBDW 2013, we'd love to hear from you!  CBDW is a week of free online webinars presented by Team ColdBox and the community that apply to building awesome applications with any of the "Box" family of frameworks.
 
If you have an idea you'd like to submit, please fill out the form here:
 
 
If you have any questions, please ask and we'll be glad to answer them!

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