Dori Smith asks again why women aren’t being invited to speak at tech conferences (this time pointing at the Ajax Experience 2006)?
I find it funny that someone asks over on the conference site “is this going to be an unconference?”
Uh, no.
I’m thinking a lot about who I want to be part of our Mix06 conference. I’m noodling on an idea I call “the mix masters.”
Those in the industry who know their stuff. Web developers, designers, visionaries, architects, who you’d like to have a conversation with over lunch at a conference.
I think I’ll start a list of mix masters and see where it goes.
Dori Smith is first on the list. She’s on the list cause she was a JavaScript expert before JavaScript was cool.
I deleted a list I was starting here cause I realized that for every name I put on it there were at least four others who were deserving too. Plus, I think it’ll start an interesting conversation. Who has done the best work in the Web design and development fields?
Who else is a mix master? Who would you want to hang with for an hour?
Scobleizer 
I am trying to understand what this Ajax stuff is? Is this just another version of Java or is it easier to write then java?
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Richard: no.
Here’s the Wikipedia entry on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX — go read that and if you still have any questions, let us know.
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I am trying to understand what this Ajax stuff is? Is this just another version of Java or is it easier to write then java?
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Richard: no.
Here’s the Wikipedia entry on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX — go read that and if you still have any questions, let us know.
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I’m tired of seeing the same faces at the all these technology conferences. Given that I’m going to ETech, I’m doubt I’m going to go to Mix ’06 to see the exact same crowd a few weeks later.
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I’m tired of seeing the same faces at the all these technology conferences. Given that I’m going to ETech, I’m doubt I’m going to go to Mix ’06 to see the exact same crowd a few weeks later.
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Dare: I sincerely doubt that Mix and ETech will have much commonality. ETech types tend to be LAMP types.
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Although you should be coming to speak, no?
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Dare: I sincerely doubt that Mix and ETech will have much commonality. ETech types tend to be LAMP types.
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Although you should be coming to speak, no?
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Hey, thanks for the link and the compliment!
If MS is serious about me going to Mix ’06, someone should contact me. 2006 is beginning to look very busy (in a good way!).
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Hey, thanks for the link and the compliment!
If MS is serious about me going to Mix ’06, someone should contact me. 2006 is beginning to look very busy (in a good way!).
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Why aren’t women invited to speak at tech conferences? I know if I was running conf, be it Ajax, Etech or whatever, my short list would include Esther Dyson.
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Why aren’t women invited to speak at tech conferences? I know if I was running conf, be it Ajax, Etech or whatever, my short list would include Esther Dyson.
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Greetings,
Does LAMP imply !AJAX? I’d think LAMP as a backend would be the easiest way to implement AJAX. (Caveat, I say this as a developer who has implemented tools using LAMP as the backend behind an AJAX UI, because…well…I think it’s the easiest way. 🙂 )
Anyhow, on a side-note thanks for the pointer to your OPML file. It’s been a treasure-trove of hard-to-parse feeds, including unusual HTML entities, broken HTML, and non-content data! 😉 (I really do mean treasure-trove, as it’s stressed my RSS parsing library to near death, and that which does not kill a library…) One wonders how the search engines filter this stuff out, until you realize they usually just don’t care.
Google’s Zeitgeist for 2005 is out… Hopefully I’ll be able to generate a decent ‘Scoble Zeitgeist’ (where ‘Scoble’ is anybody who has an OPML file of their own) shortly.
— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!
p.s. The acronymage above really got me thinking… “REST easy using Pine Fresh AJAX instead of the leading SOAP to get rid of the Web 2.0 that’s grown on your LAMPs!”
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Greetings,
Does LAMP imply !AJAX? I’d think LAMP as a backend would be the easiest way to implement AJAX. (Caveat, I say this as a developer who has implemented tools using LAMP as the backend behind an AJAX UI, because…well…I think it’s the easiest way. 🙂 )
Anyhow, on a side-note thanks for the pointer to your OPML file. It’s been a treasure-trove of hard-to-parse feeds, including unusual HTML entities, broken HTML, and non-content data! 😉 (I really do mean treasure-trove, as it’s stressed my RSS parsing library to near death, and that which does not kill a library…) One wonders how the search engines filter this stuff out, until you realize they usually just don’t care.
Google’s Zeitgeist for 2005 is out… Hopefully I’ll be able to generate a decent ‘Scoble Zeitgeist’ (where ‘Scoble’ is anybody who has an OPML file of their own) shortly.
— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!
p.s. The acronymage above really got me thinking… “REST easy using Pine Fresh AJAX instead of the leading SOAP to get rid of the Web 2.0 that’s grown on your LAMPs!”
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I think you’re going to have a bunch of “mix masters” and no-one to watch. The crowds you’re after can’t afford to go, and the corporate circle-jerkers really couldn’t give a damn who they’re listening to, just so long as they can sell the final product.
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I think you’re going to have a bunch of “mix masters” and no-one to watch. The crowds you’re after can’t afford to go, and the corporate circle-jerkers really couldn’t give a damn who they’re listening to, just so long as they can sell the final product.
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Lord, yet another West coast conference. I’ve enough to go to as it is. YOu know, there’s an entire country that ISN’T on the West Coast, or Vegas. Really. You should try seeing it some time.
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Lord, yet another West coast conference. I’ve enough to go to as it is. YOu know, there’s an entire country that ISN’T on the West Coast, or Vegas. Really. You should try seeing it some time.
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John C: agreed. Hollywood has spread across the country. The tech industry is stuck on the west coast, the video game industry moreso.
Although personally I don’t care too much. I have a good job at a tech company (APC) and if/when I leave, it will probably be to do a startup, in which case I can work wherever I want.
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John C: agreed. Hollywood has spread across the country. The tech industry is stuck on the west coast, the video game industry moreso.
Although personally I don’t care too much. I have a good job at a tech company (APC) and if/when I leave, it will probably be to do a startup, in which case I can work wherever I want.
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Yep. You want to know why you see the same people at the conferences? well, move them. THis one’s new, there was no requirement for it to be anywhere. But, you put it in Vegas or Cali, it’s Yet Another West Coast Conference.
Whatever
Besides…MixMasters? Um…right.
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Yep. You want to know why you see the same people at the conferences? well, move them. THis one’s new, there was no requirement for it to be anywhere. But, you put it in Vegas or Cali, it’s Yet Another West Coast Conference.
Whatever
Besides…MixMasters? Um…right.
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A (very) abbreviated list of people with whom I’d like to have lunch at a web design/dev wingding:
Adam Bosworth
Tantek Çelik
Brendan Eich
Håkon Wium Lie
Bert Bos
Ian Hickson
Shaun Inman
Mike Davidson
Eric Meyer
Danny Goodman
David Flanagan
Dave Winer
Khoi Vinh
Hillman Curtis
Mark Boulton
Andrei Herasimchuk
Tim Berners Lee
Tim Bray
Hrant Papazian
Matthew Carter
Jason Fried
Larry Wall
David Heinemeier Hansson
Joe Clark
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A (very) abbreviated list of people with whom I’d like to have lunch at a web design/dev wingding:
Adam Bosworth
Tantek Çelik
Brendan Eich
Håkon Wium Lie
Bert Bos
Ian Hickson
Shaun Inman
Mike Davidson
Eric Meyer
Danny Goodman
David Flanagan
Dave Winer
Khoi Vinh
Hillman Curtis
Mark Boulton
Andrei Herasimchuk
Tim Berners Lee
Tim Bray
Hrant Papazian
Matthew Carter
Jason Fried
Larry Wall
David Heinemeier Hansson
Joe Clark
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Well, I am not a lamp girl, and I will be going to Etech. 🙂
And yes, servers of mine run on Lamp. But not my working machines for myself, those are Windows. 🙂
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Well, I am not a lamp girl, and I will be going to Etech. 🙂
And yes, servers of mine run on Lamp. But not my working machines for myself, those are Windows. 🙂
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In related news: at LIFT06 (the conference Robert will do the closing keynote on February 2-3 in Geneva Switzerland) we just announced a panel on Women and technology.
http://www.lift06.org/blog/index.php?id=25
Anina, Kelly Richdale, Beth Krasna and Emmanuelle Richard will discuss why women, 50% of total users of technology, are so under-represented in the geek world.
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In related news: at LIFT06 (the conference Robert will do the closing keynote on February 2-3 in Geneva Switzerland) we just announced a panel on Women and technology.
http://www.lift06.org/blog/index.php?id=25
Anina, Kelly Richdale, Beth Krasna and Emmanuelle Richard will discuss why women, 50% of total users of technology, are so under-represented in the geek world.
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Aren’t these conferences just an exercise in circle jerking. The “Blogging Elite” meeting to discuss more ways that Web 2.0 (God I hate that term, it has no foundation in standards – and reeks of marketing hyperbole) can change things.
I’ve been following a lot of these sites thanks to Scoble’s links and frankly I think they are totally over-hyped.
It all sounds like the dot-com Boom all over again, only this time I’m hoping the emperor has found some clothes.
Isn’t the bigger picture, getting Mr Joe Average with his AOL/MSN/Yahoo email account exposed to blogging, mobile web, and having them hit those AJAX sites at least once?
These people don’t know who Robert Scoble is, or what RSS is and when you tell them their answer is: “Sounds boring”
Where is the Web 2.0 killer app? And please god don’t tell me it’s a social networking/photo sharing/office on-line thing. We can do all this stuff with normal programs.
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Aren’t these conferences just an exercise in circle jerking. The “Blogging Elite” meeting to discuss more ways that Web 2.0 (God I hate that term, it has no foundation in standards – and reeks of marketing hyperbole) can change things.
I’ve been following a lot of these sites thanks to Scoble’s links and frankly I think they are totally over-hyped.
It all sounds like the dot-com Boom all over again, only this time I’m hoping the emperor has found some clothes.
Isn’t the bigger picture, getting Mr Joe Average with his AOL/MSN/Yahoo email account exposed to blogging, mobile web, and having them hit those AJAX sites at least once?
These people don’t know who Robert Scoble is, or what RSS is and when you tell them their answer is: “Sounds boring”
Where is the Web 2.0 killer app? And please god don’t tell me it’s a social networking/photo sharing/office on-line thing. We can do all this stuff with normal programs.
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