Just a quick update as I realise I have not followed up on my request for interest for an Excel event from a month or two ago.
I personally have decided to step back from organising an Excel event this year, I am happy to help anyone else who wants to take it on. And happy to speak if needed.
No giant single alarm bells reason, just a few things that would make it overly hard.
- I am not that involved in Excel much any more (I had expected to be more so)
- I am a good few years out of date (stuck on Office 2010 (and Classique) for the (very) odd time I fire up a windows machine)
- I am mega busy working on Android apps- – which brings a lot of things that an Excel career could have delivered but didn’t (like working from home/anywhere, decent toolset, the Play store)
- I have finally found a language that is better than VBA for getting stuff done – Kotlin.
- The VBA IDE is sadder than a wet weekend in Brid (out of season) compared to IntelliJ.
- The London venue that cost a few hundred quid last time now want a few thousand!
So, sorry to get everyones hopes up, I think there was just about enough interest on here to make an event viable if a suitable venue could be found. And plenty of people happy to speak, but just not something I can realistically take on at the moment.
cheers
simon