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Re: Hack.summit()

#11

Post by edro »

petercooper wrote: post #10

(First off, yes, this is very cool :-)) This strikes me as an ingenious way to promote a service like Crowdcast. Even if the speakers are being paid for their time, the thousands (potentially?) of developers who will get to know about the product through what is essentially a live demo will be very valuable. And it raises money for charity. Assuming the technology holds up, this really does seem like a win-win :-)

Thanks Peter. We are working closely with the founder of Crowdcast. He's an incredible programmer and we're lucky to have him helping us. He benefits tangentially from this exposure.

Re: Hack.summit()

#12

Post by martingordon »

This looks pretty cool; I just registered.

However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men.

While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.

Re: Hack.summit()

#13

Post by [deleted] »

edro wrote: post #2

Speakers include: Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass) - Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language) - David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails) - Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell) - Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks) - Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS) - Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django) - Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led developmen…

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Re: Hack.summit()

#14

Post by edro »

martingordon wrote: post #12

This looks pretty cool; I just registered. However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men. While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.

Thanks for the feedback Martin. We're continuing to onboard additional speakers to further diversify our roster. The non-profits are helping us in this reach-out via introductions.

Re: Hack.summit()

#15

Post by andrewrice »

edro wrote: post #2

Speakers include: Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass) - Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language) - David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails) - Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell) - Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks) - Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS) - Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django) - Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led developmen…

Easier to read:

  - Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass) 
  - Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language) 
  - David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails) 
  - Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell) 
  - Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks) 
  - Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS) 
  - Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django) 
  - Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led development for many Adobe products) 
  - Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification) 
  - Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co-created Agile, author of 9 books) 
  - Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co-author of Design Patterns) 
  - Bram Cohen (inventor of Bittorrent) 
  - Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author) 
  - Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark) 
  - Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering) 
  - Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow) 
  - Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books) 
  - Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator) 
  - Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy) 
  - Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight) 
  - Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ) 
  - Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us) 
  - Orion Henry (founder of Heroku) 
  - Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert) 
  - Scott Chacon (CIO, Github) 
  - Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well-known programming educator and blogger) 
  - Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan) 
  - Hadi Partovi (founder of Code.org, was in charge of Internet Explorer, advisor to Dropbox and Facebook) 
  - Qi Lu (EVP, Microsoft)

Re: Hack.summit()

#16

Post by bullfight »

It would be really nice to have some info about each programming non-profit. E.G. Why they are in your donation list. What they do. Why you like them. Why I should donate to them.

They all sound really interesting, and I want to pick a good one to give too, but unfortunately I don't really know anything about any of them.

As it is now there is a huge cognitive barrier to completing registration. I want to give, but I don't know whom to give to. I could complete the registration by facebook/twitter, but I can afford to give a little bit and don't want to go the free route.

I came close to closing the tab, thinking I would come back later, but I also know I might forget and I don't want to miss out on what looks like a great con!

Re: Hack.summit()

#17

Post by forestgood »

bullfight wrote: post #16

It would be really nice to have some info about each programming non-profit. E.G. Why they are in your donation list. What they do. Why you like them. Why I should donate to them. They all sound really interesting, and I want to pick a good one to give too, but unfortunately I don't really know anything about any of them. As it is now there is a huge cognitive barrier to completing registration. I want to give, but I…

Great question. You can find out more about each non-profit by hovering your mouse on their logos on the homepage. You can also visit their websites by clicking on a logo, for even more deep information.

Re: Hack.summit()

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Post by bullfight »

bullfight wrote: post #16

It would be really nice to have some info about each programming non-profit. E.G. Why they are in your donation list. What they do. Why you like them. Why I should donate to them. They all sound really interesting, and I want to pick a good one to give too, but unfortunately I don't really know anything about any of them. As it is now there is a huge cognitive barrier to completing registration. I want to give, but I…

I went ahead and registered by posting to facebook using http://www.paywithapost.de/ and received a ticket code.

After doing so I received an email saying my registration was incomplete and the email gave a link to complete my registration.

Clicking back through to pay with a post it looks like they still have my registration.

Maybe the email is going out prematurely before you have a chance to receive a webhook from pay with a post?

Re: Hack.summit()

#19

Post by forestgood »

Here's a special code for HN users to get a free ticket and bypass the registration process. We want to seed the audience with great developers who can help spread the word. Just put this code in: HACKERNEWS at hacksummit.org
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