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The expense could easily pay for itself through networking, as you make new contacts and find new opportunities, but if you don't know the conference, that's pretty unsure.
If only conference prices weren't so depressingly high. I discovered three interesting ones in a reasonable distance through Lanyrd---awesome site!---but don't want to pay 1000+. The expense could easily pay for itself through networking, as you make new contacts and find new opportunities, but if you don't know the conference, that's pretty unsure.
If only conference prices weren't so depressingly high. I discovered three interesting ones in a reasonable distance through Lanyrd---awesome site!---but don't want to pay 1000+. The expense could easily pay for itself through networking, as you make new contacts and find new opportunities, but if you don't know the conference, that's pretty unsure.
Two solutions: 1) Be a speaker, and 2) Go to BarCamps and Unconferences instead. I've been to a number of free BarCamps which have competed extremely well with expensive events in terms of both networking and quality of talks.
I've started speaking at smaller Open Source conferences this year, and hope to expand that. It's a great experience.
Am I the only one that finds most conferences to be a waste of time?
Am I the only one that finds most conferences to be a waste of time?
It also depends a lot on where you are with your career. If you're new to things, meeting new people and learning new things will have more appeal to you. If you've got an established network and aren't in a hardcore learning mode, you'll probably be disappointed by most of them.
With that name and tagline, I first thought this was going to be resources (like printable templates) for creating counterfeit conference badges. Badgester/Wikibadges.
We're a bit worried about our "the social conference directory" tagline, since we've had a few people think the site is only for social media conferences.
Am I the only one that finds most conferences to be a waste of time?
That's why something like Lanyrd is great, for helping you find those small events which are full of smart passionate people doing cool things.
I was just asking for this earlier! Thanks! Can you subscribe to multiple topics in 1 feed? Or do you have umbrella topics like 'programming' that would cover all programming languages?