Waza - Heroku developer conference - $300 - Feb 28

https://waza.heroku.com/2013

by cr4zy • 13 years ago

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robbiet480• 13 years ago

Is this for developers with apps running on Heroku or developers of Heroku add-ons and such? I think it's the former, but I am not sure.

willlll• 13 years ago

It's for anyone

fizx• 13 years ago

It's a general-purpose web developer conference put on by Heroku. Last year was the most ridiculous conference I've ever been to (it had a sake opening ceremony, catered sushi, Rob Pike, and a rock concert)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPDbzpZS_gg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz4EHZufii0

shawndrost• 13 years ago

I went last year -- it's a very high quality, general-interest web engineering conference.

rurounijones• 13 years ago

You got to hand it to Heroku for their site design.

I particularly like their understated google map marker as the icon to click to find the location.

perlpimp• 13 years ago

Where is the schedule? am I missing something?

wavesounds• 13 years ago

$300 to go see this joker? https://waza.heroku.com/2013/speakers/aaron-patterson

Have these people lost touch with the value of money? If Im paying $300 for one day I better learn a shit load not have to listen to some dude bull shit me about his "street dance offs".

I mean maybe that guys actually legit and is just trying to be funny. But im honestly frustrated at how expensive all these conferences are, for a free lance/startup person its way too much.

petercooper• 13 years ago

I mean maybe that guys actually legit

He is. He's one smart cookie and was the first person to be in both Ruby and Rails' core teams. He has some great talks up on Confreaks and YouTube, etc. He does like whimsy but that's what makes it fun and there's usually a serious and interesting technical topic behind the talk's facade.

That said, for people who aren't aware of certain personalities, I can see why it might be a turnoff, so more work could probably be done to explain why speakers at conferences are worth seeing.

steveklabnik• 13 years ago

Aaron was the first person to have commit access to both Ruby and Rails. His personality is silly but he has really impressive tech chops.

benschwarz• 13 years ago

Aaron is a ruby and rails committer, he's not only entertaining, but a great teacher. If you don't think he and the other speakers are worth it, don't go.

… If you think $300 for a conference is absurd, then you've clearly never organised anything bigger than a BBQ.

rdl• 13 years ago

$300 is kind of in the valley between "trivial for an individual to pay" (which I think tops out at $150-200) and "still trivial for a business". (under $1k for a single day).

Unless they were trying to capacity control, I think having dual types of tickets (some kind of $100-200 ticket with no receipt and thus no expenseability, and a $600-1000 ticket with expense reporting) would make sense, sort of like what HAL and CCC do.

patio11• 13 years ago

You should raise your freelancing rates. If you're in the Bay Area and can do Rails, market rates are well north of $100 an hour. Raising your rates will let you pay for many things, including inexpensive conferences that you can trivially write off.

emperorcezar2• 13 years ago

Heh. I think it's funny that you think $300 is a lot. I'm in the mid-west and $300 is still not a lot for a one-day conference.

dagw• 13 years ago

$300 is cheap for a conference where great speakers give great talks about about focused topics that are relevant to your career and/or interests. $300 is expensive for a conference where some "cool" hackers spend the day cracking in-jokes and showing silly slides.

raverbashing• 13 years ago

I have a personal view on conferences

The higher level the issue debated, the less value there is in a conference (higher level - not necessarily 'closer to the metal')

As such

Python conference - sign me up! Django or Pylons conference - ok Pinax conference - don't waste my money

Because it gets more specific, less flexible every time.

A conference on CSS/HTML5? Looks cool. A conference on LESS? C'mon

Especially for $300 dollars

Waza - Heroku developer conference - $300 - Feb 28

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