NodeConf May 5th 2011 Portland, OR

More announcements soon, be patient and try not to be a dick.

If you don't see anything in the web page itself, there are often other hints that something is real. In this case the hints are the URL and the person who posted this story.

It's difficult to get xconf.com where x is a very popular programming framework, and voodootikigod is well-known within the JavaScript community.

It matters because many of us like to have months to plan for conferences -- prospective speakers especially.

node.js camp, which will be awesome, is a tutorial day where you'll go from zero to a functioning realtime application in one day.

Joyent is doing a great job putting it together and I'm excited to speak.

NodeConf is a slightly larger community event that is more like a typical conference and less like a tutorial. It's also going to be a gathering point for the node.js community to come together from around the world.

If anyone's interesting, we're collecting a list of node.js conferences on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/topics/nodejs/

We also have a pretty decent collection of coverage from older Node.js talks - 8 videos, 15 slide decks, 3 podcasts etc - linked from the right hand column of that page.

They definitely need a list. I'm generalizing a quick'n'dirty watcher[1] I made for jsconf.us 2011 to check a list of URLs, which is fun in a geeky way, but it's also lame I have to resort to that.

[1] https://gist.github.com/726642

NodeConf is going to be held in Portland, OR shortly after JSConf US 2011. The target is to gather all node.js developers from all skill sets together for a day of awesome presentations and community building. There will be events around this conference to help train/learn you on node.js if you are interested.

Isn't the best time to have conferences when the technology is young?

What would have happened if in 1976 the Homebrew Computer Club decided to disband because the technology was too young?