There are a couple of cool events going on around Subversion, online and offline.

Branching and Merging for Subversion 1.5 Webinar

With Merge Tracking coming, many companies will want to have a fresh look at their branching strategies. We often hear that people hold back on branching because they are waiting for Merge Tracking. Now you don’t have to hold back anymore but you do need to prepare and make sure that when you upgrade to Subversion 1.5, you implement policies that optimize parallel development on multiple branches.

On September 26th CollabNet organizes a webinar on branching strategies, in cooperation with CM CrossRoads. We’ll explain how to develop and implement branching policies that best fit your organization and Auke Jilderda and Bob Jenkins will show how to use Subversion 1.5’s Merge Tracking functionality to support parallel development on different branches. You can sign up here (it is free).

Other webinars

We actually do regular live demos of Subversion and are updating them to include the new features of Subversion 1.5. The next one is October 9th.

Another great webinar to sign up for is “Round Trip Engineering” on Tuesday September 18th with Nick Gulrajani. Subversion is of course only one piece of the development tools puzzle and how the pieces integrate has a big impact on your productivity (and stress levels). Nick will show how seven different tools integrate and how many of them can come together in your IDE through plug-ins.

Subversion conference and workshops

The first-ever Subversion conference, Subconf 2007, will take place in Germany, October 16th to 18th (its own conference, quite a milestone for Subversion). English-language information is at http://www.subconf.com. Some sessions will be in German (like customer success stories from local companies) but there is enough in English to make it worth everybody’s while. A number of Subversion committers will be at the conference (and not only CollabNet's), so come and meet them.

I specially want to point out CollabNet’s workshop on October 15th: the “Definitive Subversion 1.5 Workshop”. It’s all about Subversion 1.5, including Merge Tracking, and the presenters include Subversion committers. This should be a great one to be at.

Hope to meet you at any of the above svn events