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Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds

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Re: Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

ceejayoz wrote: post #12

I guess that's what happens when everyone who attends gets a free phone/tablet. Maybe registration should have a quiz requiring knowledge a developer would have.

Last year, they claimed they'd be doing something like this. For some reason they backpedaled.

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Post by koko775 »

jc4p wrote: post #19
funkah wrote: post #17

Uh, awesome. Hope you had your finger on the button if you are an actual developer who wanted to go.

I did, no such luck. Same as every single year I've tried. You'd think having been invited down to Google for other summer events would help but it doesn't. I'd buy a ticket that doesn't qualify you for any swag if I still get to talk to people but it seems like they don't care about that.

Agreed! The only reason I want to go is to share wisdom and learn.

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Post by zdw »

"Lets create a conference where the swag is easily resellable items worth more than the conference admission. Nobody will figure out how to arbitrage that..."

I've heard great things about I/O, but the device giveaways seem to always turn registration into a circus...

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Post by colinloretz »

huherto wrote: post #18

They should probably allow one day for people to request the tickets and then assign them at random.

This is how Burning Man did their tickets this year. It didn't work out very well for them but I think it would work well for something like this. You'd get a better distribution of devs and people just looking to get "free" devices.

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Post by cr4zy »

It didn't sell out at 7. The POST to the ticket URL kept timing out until 7:03. The timeout would cause a redirect to the no ticket page. After 7:03 the POST hung until they showed a reserved ticket at 7:07 (for me).
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