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The fourth edition of the Italian Agile Day is over! It’s a free, one day conference I organise every year and for the second year in a row I managed to fund it using donations via PayPal instead of looking for commercial sponsors.

The remarkable thing about this edition is that we went from 180 attendees last year to over 260 this year!!

Some facts:

- for the first time we moved from Milan to Bologna (part of my plan to conquer the whole country…)
- 3 rooms for 3 parallel tracks
- more than half the people had never been to an Agile Day before
- Tim Mackinnon kindly agreed to be our (great) keynote speaker

- 4 sessions for newbies
- 5 experience reports
- 1 three-hour long workshop on User Story writing

- many OpenSpace sessions

- a Futurespective on the Italian Agile Day 2010 (and 2009, and 200

A group of people then went for the usual post-Agile Day dinner and this is how the starters table looked like

I know I say this every year but indeed it was the best edition ever even though, looking at the ideas for 2008, it’s gonna lose this position in 12 months

I just got back from the fourth Italian Agile Day and I’ll write more on this in the next few days but I want to share with everyone an interesting Italian campaign my friend Francesco Cirillo - the oldest (not as in age :-D) and greatest Italian eXtreme Programmer - has launched:

It’s called The Anti-IF Campaign (the page is in Italian)

It reads: “anti-if campaign, you can quit if you want to!”

Francesco talk at the Agile Day (about, among other things, proper Object Orientation) was funny, entertaining and full of meat as usual. Imagine a great public speaker addressing the crowd wearing an Anti-IF t-shirt and saying, while showing snippets of real code with a McCabe’s Cyclomatic Index > 110, “be honest guys: you like this code, don’t you!”

I believe the campaign should have international visibility and that’s why I’m writing this post. Go Francesco, go!!