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Re: Hack.summit()

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Post by [deleted] »

jbhatab wrote: post #26
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.

White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group just demonstrates what society was like in the past. If I was throwing a convention, I would want the best and the brightest 30+ year olds for wisdom/experience reasons. And since everyone agrees that males dominated the space in the last 15 years, why would it…

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Re: Hack.summit()

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Post by edro »

arthurcolle wrote: post #27

Any chance you could accept bitcoin? Seems like a really cool event otherwise.

I think that's a great idea. We really wanted to accept bitcoin but ran out of engineering bandwidth. We were looking at dogecoin too. I hope developers who are unable to pay in cash will still join us through sharing on social media (or if you're a hackernews member, using the free promotion code mentioned elsewhere in these comments).

Re: Hack.summit()

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Post by edro »

Just so that this doesn't get buried in the comments, here's a repost: We have 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 http://hacksummit.org

Re: Hack.summit()

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Post by saidur »

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 :-)

Haha thanks for the compliments Peter ;)

(ceo of Crowdcast)

Re: Hack.summit()

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Post by timblair »

edro wrote: post #33

Just so that this doesn't get buried in the comments, here's a repost: We have 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 http://hacksummit.org

I saw this, but decided to donate anyway.
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