Kevin Hale, Derek Sivers, Mike McDerment et al @ Less Conference

http://lessconf.lesseverything.com/

by auston • 17 years ago

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rbazinet• 17 years ago

The list of speakers looks great, I signed up and can't wait for the event.

timchilcott• 17 years ago

I can't wait to be at this, amazing speakers and free books and massages!

aditya• 17 years ago

I'm confused. Everyone's saying the list of speakers looks great, what do you expect to learn from speakers that you already haven't read on the web?

Most conferences are only good as networking opportunities, if that.

diN0bot• 17 years ago

i agree. furthermore, $200-300 to get in, plus travel and accommodation expenses (either in $$ or time if going the car-sharing and couch-surfing route)

networking is definitely important, but only if you have someone on your team who is super prepared and ready to take advantage of the experience.

(personal note: while that person could be me, i much more enjoy staying home to code and go salamander wrestling)

auston• 17 years ago

> Most conferences are only good as networking opportunities, if that.

Like being able to eat lunch with the Speakers of the event?

joshuastreet• 17 years ago

You're right, next time I want a vacation I'll just do a google image search...or to grow my business network, I'll add myspace friends. It's all in what you see. To me it looks like a conference that has all the important stuff without the annoying expo and corporate sponsors. I'm sold.

duffomelia2• 17 years ago

> what do you expect to learn from speakers > that you already haven't read on the web?

Are you kidding? Do you think the only thing to learn from someone is what they've written on the web?

imathis• 17 years ago

Exactly. Whom among us hasn't written down every useful thought we've ever had and blogged it? If all of our friends blogged, would we even want hang out?

midnightmonster• 17 years ago

I've seen Kevin speak in person at BarCamp Tampa last year. I almost skipped it b/c I had read so many of his blog posts, but fortunately decided to come in just a bit late instead. It was well-prepared, entertaining, insightful, inspiring, (I'll stop now and not over-do it) and not just a rehash of his blog entries.

I actually decided the networking opportunities were overrated, and I would only go to another conference for good speakers.

fnid• 17 years ago

I wish there was less spam on Hacker News.

omouse• 17 years ago

So a bunch of website and web app developers are the speakers? Doesn't anyone else get the feeling that everyone is narrow-minded when it comes to the software industry?

catch23• 17 years ago

seems like they've done more than just run a website... I'm sure Derek Sivers & Kevin Hale had to do more than just apache configuration files to get their companies up and running.

edw5193• 17 years ago

At 800 x 600, you can't read the event date. So I changed resolution to read the date, but now I can't find the time.

This sounds like a worthwhile event, and I imagine the speakers don't make their customers jump through hoops like this website makes you do.

Honestly, shouldn't pros have a better website?

dchest2• 17 years ago

800x600? Get a new computer and you'll be able to read a lot of websites!

edw5193• 17 years ago

The computer is new. The eyes are old.

Please understand this...

I will use what I want, not what the poorly build site forces me to do.

There are 100 million other baby boomers who have increasing difficulty with higher resolutions. Do you want them coming to your site or not?

jamesbritt• 17 years ago

I just viewed the site on my G1. It looks like ass.

It need not be that way, and not accounting for assorted screen sizes and devices is lazy.

duffomelia2• 17 years ago

The date of the conference is October 17, 2009. Your screen resolution is vintage! I didn't realize folks were still using 800x600.

icey• 17 years ago

It shouldn't matter what resolution people are using; sites should degrade gracefully. You never know when you're going to have someone with a visual disability, or using a screen reader trying to use your site.

Kevin Hale, Derek Sivers, Mike McDerment et al @ Less Conference

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