Google I/O 2013
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https://twitter.com/lukegb/status/309438514964099072
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(sorry for spoiling it ;D)
What is that?
Also sometimes they just randomly change the announced date prior to registration (eg. from April to June) for extra "Fuck You" to people who plan ahead.
I don't think it really matters where you're connecting from though, the servers basically just die under the load and you may or may not get lucky by hitting the right load balancer at the right time but where you're coming from and what your latency is doesn't really matter too much. It is a horrible experience for people in California just as it is a horrible experience for people in Europe.
"The 2013 conference will be held from May 15-17 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco."
I believe Google's trying to recoup most or all of the cost, which must be high if they're subsidising the gadget giveaways.
People (with less money) genuinely interested in the development talks, establishing connections, getting to know fellow developers and have interesting conversations, would be a second rank citizen to the "tech enthusiast" with a lot of money to spend.
I've found that the I/O Extended event works out well... They hold them in many countries now, and live stream the keynotes. It's a great atmosphere, and you meet interesting people.
Outside of Extended, the tech talks/firesides should be streamed live via YouTube. It was a bit hit and miss last year... hope it's smoother this time.
Can't say I'm a fan of the sensationalism either. Would be interested to see them make one more like an academic conference than a trade show expo.
We're only a week away from general sales, but I haven't seen any information about I/ON registration yet. I hope they're still giving early access to tickets for I/ONs this year.
And I, and many others, hope they don't. Google I/O became a "why not" conference to go to for those in the area because the freebies outweighed the cost, and it is ridiculous that Google starts to grandfather that in.
But there is a presale aimed at exactly this group.
They've had the "I/ON" group (aka "loyal since 2008") since 2010, if I remember correctly. There was no presale but it also took 90 days for the 2010 conference to sell out, so it wasn't like you needed one. The 2010 I/ON group got priority seating at the keynote, a different T-shirt, and some other trinkets.
In 2011 they did presale for I/ONs two weeks prior to general registration, and a presale for other 2010 attendees one week prior to open registration (and only for attendees who paid full price in 2010, not academic discounted tickets).
2012 had just a presale for I/ONs, no early registration at all for 2011 attendees.
I'm going to be bummed if I can't get a ticket and there's a lot of Glass dev content at the conference. I didn't have the time to go to either Foundry event.
Previous years have been this way? is this new?
Last year was better because Google took it in-house, but it was still an F5-fest.
I'm a development engineer at a University, with University staff ID. I imagine I prove this with a pay stub, and staff ID?
Also they say they won't let you convert an academic ticket to a full price ticket, so if you quit your job before I/O it sounds like they'll just turn you away at the door for not being eligible.