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Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by rubiquity »

lpgauth wrote: post #28

I'm a little bias, but one of my favorite conference is the Erlang Factory SF! The conference is still small enough that there's no bullshit and you get to meet most of the active community! A must if you work with Erlang :)

I desperately want to go to Erlang Factory but as a freelance programmer $800-$1200 USD for a ticket is just way out of my range. The lineup of speakers and talks from every year are amazing and it would be so cool to spend time in person with other Erlang users. Bummer about the cost :(

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by dotnetkow »

jawns wrote: post #21

I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who's attended That Conference ( https://www.thatconference.com ) -- which bills itself as a summer camp for geeks. That it occurs at a giant indoor waterpark makes me wonder whether the actual conference is beneficial, or if it's just an excuse to get your company to bankroll part of your vacation. If you've attended and your company did foot the bill, was it a hard sell?

I've attended every year so far, it's a blast! Like someone else mentioned, like many conferences, the more you put in the more you get out. There is a large variety in content and lots of opportunities to socialize. I've taken back lots of new ideas to my work, whom has always paid for it. I even spoke this past August! https://www.thatconference.com/sessions/session/1171

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by akoumjian »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #10
akoumjian wrote: post #3

PyCon ( https://us.pycon.org/2015/ ) is always a blast. It's large, but has an amazing sense of community. You will find at least three or four amazing talks each day, on a variety of subjects. The posters area will expose you to all kinds of cool academic and other projects. The Expo Hall is always full of hip companies (giving away lots of great SWAG, of course). I guarantee you will leave inspired.

I'm going to PyCon for the first time this year (presenting on how to port Python to run without an OS). I've been to quite a few other FOSS conferences; any tips for PyCon, since it sounds like you've been before?

The testing "birds of a feather" is not to be missed. In general, don't be afraid to step out of your shell and introduce yourself to other pythonistas. One of the friendliest conferences there is.

Your talk sounds fantastic. I'll try to make it and introduce myself.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by gopalv »

gracer wrote: post #8
alblue wrote: post #2

You should provide what kind of location or travel budget that you are asking about: there's great conferences across Europe but that may not be of interest if you are based on the West coast of the states for example.

I live in Australia. So almost EVERYTHING is an international airfare (ugh). But love it here anyhow!

LCA is pretty awesome.

I went to linux.conf.au for five years in a row (from India).

Heard people like like Andrew Tanenbaum and Bruce Schneier, more importantly go to ask them questions (yes, that's the point).

Rusty, Tridge, Linus, Bdale, Keith Packard, Lennart, Garret, Val Henson, Rasmus ... if you work on the lower layers of the linux ecosystem, this is a pretty awesome place to head to.

The only downside was that I returned from the conference every year with a sensation of having wasted the entire year before not doing anything significant (of course, I worked on a lot of small things, but nothing which took a year to write).

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by gopalv »

jace wrote: post #45

If you are in India, HasGeek's conferences are all for developers, and often pretty much the only conference on the topic in India (websites are still for 2014): Feb 2015: Meta Refresh, on web UI ( https://metarefresh.in ) and Construkt Festival, on tech startups ( http://construkt.me ) May 2015: Rootconf, on devops and cloud infrastructure ( https://rootconf.in ) Jul 2015: The Fifth Elephant, on big data and analyti…

+1 this - mostly because they're all in the second or third iteration of the conference.

Take a look at the last few years' videos to get an idea of why this is worth attending, which is probably the harder detail for people who have to travel to attend conferences.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences for 2015?

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Post by jace »

gopalv wrote: post #58
jace wrote: post #45

If you are in India, HasGeek's conferences are all for developers, and often pretty much the only conference on the topic in India (websites are still for 2014): Feb 2015: Meta Refresh, on web UI ( https://metarefresh.in ) and Construkt Festival, on tech startups ( http://construkt.me ) May 2015: Rootconf, on devops and cloud infrastructure ( https://rootconf.in ) Jul 2015: The Fifth Elephant, on big data and analyti…

+1 this - mostly because they're all in the second or third iteration of the conference. Take a look at the last few years' videos to get an idea of why this is worth attending, which is probably the harder detail for people who have to travel to attend conferences.

JSFoo 2015 will be the fifth year. That's the oldest. Rootconf 2015 in the third year is the youngest.
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