Some of Canada’s smartest minds have come up with a conference, May 15-16 of this year. Mesh. They asked for input, I gave it to them. Maybe I should have said “uh, have Canadian speakers?”, but I thought that was a given.
I’ll admit, I was quite disappointed that they didn’t ask me to speak, given that I am Canadian, I’m running an increasingly prominent web 2.0 style startup and… Ah heck, who am I kidding, I just thought it’d be a helluva lot of fun to speak.
I’ll probably still go, and I don’t bear the guys any ill will at all. As I said, smartest guys in Canada. And if they don’t think I’m right for the conference, then that’s … Well, it’s “okay” I guess. I’m sure it’ll still be a kickass event and, as long as I’m not on vacation (6th anniversary is 2 days before the event) I’ll likely be there.
I’d feel like such a fool to not go to one of the most kickass Toronto business / tech / blogging events of the year just because they didn’t ask me to speak. I’m not quite *that* much of a dick.
March 27th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Ah, yes, just what the world needed. Another “Web 2.0″ conference.
March 27th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
350 bucks. I know that’s standard conference pricing, but I guess they didn’t dig the whole community-based $50 Northern Voice model.
As such, I’m not sure what this conference offers that a half-dozen others aren’t already providing. Excepting, of course, that it’s probably the first of its kind in Toronto. I think I’ll just go to Gnomedex instead.
March 28th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Come to Barcamp Ottawa… I wanna meet you
(This is david from phoenixrealm.com, and Bloggy Network)
April 5th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I want to ‘ditto’ the reply by David. We would love to meet you at Barcamp Ottawa. It should be a terrific event. It is on the weekend, so it won’t cut into other business, and as an extra bonus, we won’t be charging you hundreds of dollars to participate, thanks to the ‘community-based’ nature of the conference, as well as the generous support of our sponsors.
cya there