Hi Tom, thanks for your good words and openness Nicole has come for free to my last 3 conferences as she was a long time supporter and helped with her podcasts until Nicole had those comments last year. As you can see, paying or not paying does not make a difference which is probably reassuring, so I don't want to be seen as buying anybody's judgment... But I would be very happy if you came back and for sure, I have learnt from last year and will be very careful this time.
2007-04-29EDT17:48:11+00:00
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Loïc: thanks for your comment. I don't think I'll be coming to LeWeb4, but I do wish you success with it. Europe really needs to foster a startup culture. I think that conferences are one way of doing it - I think that the business/marketing/executive types need something to run in parallel with the deep geek events like BarCamp etc.
I wonder whether Le Web could look to this year's Web 2.0 Expo/Summit and the Web2Open unconference that ran alongside it at the same venue. Having something like that would, I think, be a great compromise between the interests of the techies/"meat and veg bloggers" and the business folks who would probably gain more from, say, the talks by Google and Microsoft honchos.
There is a vibrant culture of people at things like BarCamp, and they need to be supported. They should be as much an attraction as the keynote speakers - because technology businesses are only going to innovate if they get the sort of people who are involved with community projects like BarCamp and, well, listen to them and hire them. Just an idea.
2007-04-29EDT18:57:31+00:00
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I wonder whether Le Web could look to this year's Web 2.0 Expo/Summit and the Web2Open unconference that ran alongside it at the same venue. Having something like that would, I think, be a great compromise between the interests of the techies/"meat and veg bloggers" and the business folks who would probably gain more from, say, the talks by Google and Microsoft honchos.
There is a vibrant culture of people at things like BarCamp, and they need to be supported. They should be as much an attraction as the keynote speakers - because technology businesses are only going to innovate if they get the sort of people who are involved with community projects like BarCamp and, well, listen to them and hire them. Just an idea.
