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Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by k33l0r »

nickbarnwell wrote: post #15
johnzimmerman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, but the increased price might be because there is an extra day this year.

Isn't that atypical of incremental pricing? One would expect the marginal cost of the third day to be lower, if anything.

We organise a smaller (a lot smaller!) conference¹ in Helsinki, Finland and I can tell you that a surprising number of things increase in cost linearly as you add more days.

Of course adding one more day to a two day conference doesn't double your costs, but I'd image that Google is taking into account inflation as well as just trying to increase their profit margin (though taking into account the amount of hardware they give out they give out to attendees does indicate that they're also trying to limit the audience to actual developers).

¹ http://2012.frozenrails.eu/

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by grandalf »

elefont2 wrote: post #18
moses1400 wrote: post #8

Double the price of last year.

there is a bright side to it - the 'sold out in a hour' situation last year was ridiculous. While i would have preferred a coding challenge to eliminate that problem, a price increase is another method of fixing it.

Great point. A coding challenge would stop the attendees who just plan to get the free hardware and flip it for a quick profit.

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by cr4zy »

Looks like no preregistration for past attendees like previous years:

https://plus.google.com/111395306401981598462/posts/Ty3M5UDd...

Ruben Orduz - +Google Developers No pre-registration for past attendees? Also confirmation about no test for registration would be much appreciated.

Google Developers - Just to confirm, registration will be first come, first served on March 27th. We spent a lot of time thinking about this and decided that first come, first served is the fastest and fairest way to give everyone interested a chance to attend.

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by rdl »

I wish they'd take a small number of tickets (10? 100?) and auction them off, with the surplus over retail price going to charity.

In general I think all sold out/exclusive events should do this kind of thing; it raises hype, makes the people who get a ticket for normal price feel like they got a deal, and helps the charity. Anyone willing to spend e.g. $10k of their own or a company's money to attend is likely to have some value at the event as well (investor? lawyer?).

You don't want to do this for all the tickets, or even a large number of tickets, because having all 5k people be from Fortune 500 companies willing to spend $5k/ticket makes it a lot less interesting than an event with mostly independent developers, but 100 out of 5000 isn't going to change things much, either.

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by namityadav »

elefont2 wrote: post #18
moses1400 wrote: post #8

Double the price of last year.

there is a bright side to it - the 'sold out in a hour' situation last year was ridiculous. While i would have preferred a coding challenge to eliminate that problem, a price increase is another method of fixing it.

Yes, but it's a poor way to fix it. A high price just means that corporate people looking to get some free goodies will be more likely to attend than hackers who have to pay the $900 out of their own pockets.

This will be the first time I won't even bother to register. Too much money.

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by justinsb »

krosaen wrote: post #23

MVP? https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmd... edit: looks like you might need to open up in incognito to go straight to the machine I built (2 parts)

Nice idea. I built a one part device.

Sadly it looks like there's a bug in Google's saving code, so there's an extra (completely unnecessary) wall.

https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmd...

If you're going to share your output, make sure that what you're sharing is what you saved!

Edit: And on top of that, it depends on your screen size. Hopefully the registration system doesn't have as many problems!

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by rplnt »

vibrunazo wrote: post #7

I'm trying out the demo chrome experiment on the page. It seems there's a bug that the "Keep trying" pop up just won't go away after the tutorial. Or is it just me? I'm using Chrome 17.0.963.65.

Does not work in Opera... until "masking as Firefox". Then it's just slow. Still don't get why to block it out though...

Re: Google I/O 2012

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Post by alain94040 »

PS: if you are complaining about the price, it's time to show your entreprenerial spirit and organize a free unconference at the same time and nearby. Don't complain, do something!
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