Comments on: Etech: how to really screw up a conference http://crueltobekind.org/etech-how-to-really-screw-up-a-conference-228 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Janko http://crueltobekind.org/etech-how-to-really-screw-up-a-conference-228#comment-224 Janko Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:25:00 +0000 http://crueltobekind.org/etech-how-to-really-screw-up-a-conference-228#comment-224 Hey Nicole, I thought ETech was still worth it, but of course my travel times are much shorter. There definitly were some shortcomings this year, especially with the last day - my feeling was that the O'Reilly staff was pretty embarrassed about some of that stuff as well. However, I thought some of the products and concepts shown have a lot of potential. Maybe even too much to apprehend yet. I think I kind of felt like you about the conference two years ago. That was the ETech Flickr launched - and I was thinking: Now who the heck needs something like that? :) Either way - it was great meeting you! Hey Nicole, I thought ETech was still worth it, but of course my travel times are much shorter. There definitly were some shortcomings this year, especially with the last day – my feeling was that the O’Reilly staff was pretty embarrassed about some of that stuff as well.

However, I thought some of the products and concepts shown have a lot of potential. Maybe even too much to apprehend yet. I think I kind of felt like you about the conference two years ago. That was the ETech Flickr launched – and I was thinking: Now who the heck needs something like that? :)

Either way – it was great meeting you!

]]> By: mark http://crueltobekind.org/etech-how-to-really-screw-up-a-conference-228#comment-223 mark Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:09:00 +0000 http://crueltobekind.org/etech-how-to-really-screw-up-a-conference-228#comment-223 I'm sorry to hear this. I have fond memories of prior years. I couldn't make it this year, but it seemed to me that the conference was getting too big. Size brings complications. More vendor sponsrship among them, which brings more commercial and less "emerging". Based on the backchannel this week it sounds like I mostly missed the socializing and not so much the content. Now the tough question is: what is the interesting tech conference that will replace etech? I ruled out SuperNova, Pop!Tech and a few others because they aren't geeky enough, too costly, etc. OScon is good but not the quite the same. Now that I live far from the technology hubs I miss my tribe, and things like etech are my way of maintaining personal contact :-( I’m sorry to hear this. I have fond memories of prior years. I couldn’t make it this year, but it seemed to me that the conference was getting too big. Size brings complications. More vendor sponsrship among them, which brings more commercial and less “emerging”. Based on the backchannel this week it sounds like I mostly missed the socializing and not so much the content.

Now the tough question is: what is the interesting tech conference that will replace etech? I ruled out SuperNova, Pop!Tech and a few others because they aren’t geeky enough, too costly, etc. OScon is good but not the quite the same. Now that I live far from the technology hubs I miss my tribe, and things like etech are my way of maintaining personal contact :-(

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