Category Archives: Conferences

Why Speakers Shouldn’t Be Paid

Hey there, about to stick my head up here and get shot at, but I had some interesting converstaions this weekend and feel like someone should post them.
Conference speakers should not be paid.
Woah.  Back down tiger.  Let me explain a bit more before you finish sharpening your pitchforks.
I’ve been to quite a few conferences.  I [...]

Open Source Bridge in Portland This Summer

Portland will be hosting the Open Source Bridge Conference June 17-19th 2009.
The card says it is ‘connecting developers across projects, languages and backgrounds.’  Also of note, this being planned in a very open and honest way (by an all volunteer army).
Looks really interesting.  Rick has more (as always).

PodCamp Boulder

PodCamp is an unconference around new media.  If you have never been to one, make a point to go.  The most creative and passionate conversations I have ever have taken place at these types of events.
Boulder is hosting one this weekend.  If you are interested in attending, head on over to the site to get [...]

Ten Tables of Four Please – A Modest Proposal

Along with all my travel, I go to a lot of group dinners; usually around 40 people.  At these dinners, generally, there are quite a few social media folks and people in startups (no one person is going to pick up the bill, unlike a banking dinner).  I love the thought of getting together with [...]

The Perceived Funding Crisis

Verbose talk about funding in the last week.  Gary Vaynerchuk said we are at a unique time: nobody has money, the playing field is level.  In a panel on ‘The Startup Climate‘ at the AZ Entrepreneurship Conference I made a comment about being more scared of an out of work hacker than a larger established [...]