Exactly (well… almost exactly ;-)) a year ago, I joined the platform evangelism team at Adobe. I thought this would be an excellent time to look back at this year.
I talked to approximately 14000 people (this is just a guesstimate but it should be pretty close). That’s an average of 269 people every single week. In total, I did 53 trips this year. So, one trip a week. On average, one trip takes 3 days which means I spent 163 days or 23 weeks away from home. That’s about 62% of all working days. I visited about 30 different cities all over Europe, Middle East and Africa. That does give me 80000+ air miles (and platinum status on Brussels Airlines) but sadly also means that I am responsible for a carbon footprint of 21226 kg (according to my Dopplr account). The other day, I was looking for a way to offset my carbon footprint, but I found that all these organizations seem to be US based. If anyone knows of an organization in Europe, please let me know. My hosting provider is already using 100% green energy but I feel I should do more than that.
The visitors on my blog have grown 1000% compared to a year ago. A big thank you for that! The most popular article was my much talked about Silverlight article that I published in July. It was responsible for 6% of all my traffic this year. 37% of all traffic on my blog came from a referring site (Again, thank you!). People from 163 different countries read this blog with most of you coming from the US (25%) and the Benelux (19%) in second place.
This year has been truly amazing and this job turned out to be everything I thought it would be… and more! In all honesty, it can be pretty tiring sometimes, but meeting people that are working on cool apps and getting positive feedback at conferences is just so amazingly energizing!
Thank you for a truly spectacular year and I’m sure we’ll bump in to each other over the next 12 months!
Thank you for this blog :)
Cheers to another year..
Take care
Serge, good work man, i really looking forward to meet you again.
Well, congrats for this intense year in Adobe !
We learned a lot and we had a rich discussion in the onAir tour in Paris with you and the other, and i hope you’ll keep on teaching us stuff on Adobe technologies.
:-) let’s go get a beer soon. If it’s one of those weeks you’re in Belgium…
If you want to travel greener you can take a look here, it’s a sub division of a german travel agency:
http://www.miller-forest.de/34.html
There you can buy trees which can eliminate your CO2.
Maybe this helps, because at the moment the website is only in german.
Wow, 53 countries trips in a year – crazy. Great meeting you in South Africa Serge, any idea if you’ll be back in 2009.
I still need to get my but in gear and create that Petrol app :).
Wes
Good job!
Keep on evangelizing :)
cu soon
Congratulations Serge! Thank you for spreading Flash platform!
Congratulations and happy anniversary!
Keep up the good work, Serge.
As a new developer that has drank some Koolaid and spit it back out again I’m always very interested in the community evangelists and what they are up to, be it Adobe, MS or otherwise!
Still hoping to actually get to see you in person at an event sometime…
Its been great to cross paths many times this last year. I hope the next years to come are just as great for you.
Hi Serge, you have done a great work this year and you help a lots of developers!
thank you again to Adobe Platform Evangelist!
it is been great to know someone like you serge !! good luck :)
Congrats on a great year. You’ve done a great job for the Adobe developer community, keep it up!
Thank you all for these kind words! This is exactly why I love this job so much.
Hey Serge!
Let me add another one.
Thanks for supporting us over the last year.
You’ve always been around to talk to and to help out even though you’ve been very busy.
Thanks a lot dude and keep it up! Hope to see you soon.