What is Funconf?
It’s an unusual conference, presented by myself, Eamon Leonard, and my friend Paul Campbell.
Funconf takes place on Saturday 24th April, 2010.
It was inspired by JSconf.eu, an amazing JavaScript conference we both attended in Berlin last November, and by StartupCrawl an event Paul attended in San Francisco also in November.
Funconf is for anyone who designs, develops or works on the web and loves what they do.
It’s a very small conference, with room for only 70 people.
Funconf is about encouraging conversation between conference goers and speakers on subjects they’re passionate about.
It’s a moving conference and will start and end in Dublin, with some stops along the way.
It will take place on two specially converted buses, where the seating faces into the aisle, bringing an intimate (or at least interesting) feel to the event, and encourage conversation.
We hope it will be a conference that people enjoy and remember.
It will feature some really cool speakers, who will tell us about their experiences with working on fun stuff for the web
- Joe Hewitt - creator of Firebug and Facebook’s iPhone App
- Matthew Inman - creator of The Oatmeal
- Marshall Kirkpatrick - of ReadWriteWeb
- Michael Lopp - author of Managing Humans, aka Rands (in Repose)
- Jonathan Siegel - seed founder of RightScale, founder of ELC Technologies
- Joe Stump - co-founder of SimpleGeo, ex lead dev Digg
Funconf is a simple idea; it does what it says on the tin… we want it to be fun.
The latest information on Funconf can be found on funconf.com and by following @funconf.
A limited number of early bird tickets are on sale now - http://funconf.eventbrite.com/
