Comments on: 99 hours at 360iDev made me a better developer http://www.sunetos.com/items/2009/10/02/99-hours-at-360idev-made-me-a-better-developer/ Doug Sjoquist, Software Craftsman Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dwsjoquist http://www.sunetos.com/items/2009/10/02/99-hours-at-360idev-made-me-a-better-developer/#comment-3 dwsjoquist Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:22:01 +0000 http://sunetos.com/?p=180#comment-3 Thanks again for a great conference, Tom. I look forward to returning. Doug Thanks again for a great conference, Tom. I look forward to returning.

Doug

]]> By: Tom Ortega http://www.sunetos.com/items/2009/10/02/99-hours-at-360idev-made-me-a-better-developer/#comment-2 Tom Ortega Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:38:37 +0000 http://sunetos.com/?p=180#comment-2 [I tried to comment earlier, so my apologies if this becomes a double comment.] This particular word bit: "People talk about community in a lot of areas of life, but this past week in Denver, I experienced it professionally — and it was great. I met people of all levels of experience in iPhone development, and to a person, each was willing to freely talk about technical, professional, and business ideas with no real consideration of what was in it for them. " Struck a chord with John and I. See, when we did the first show, we realized that we would lose money. We also realized that show #2 wouldn't make a killing either. However, we felt we HAD to do it because we needed to get the community together. We wonder if this altruistic thinking somehow permeates the spirit of the show and surfaces in all attendees and speakers. Because it just seems odd that we have that at our shows and others seem not to. [I tried to comment earlier, so my apologies if this becomes a double comment.]

This particular word bit:
“People talk about community in a lot of areas of life, but this past week in Denver, I experienced it professionally — and it was great. I met people of all levels of experience in iPhone development, and to a person, each was willing to freely talk about technical, professional, and business ideas with no real consideration of what was in it for them. ”

Struck a chord with John and I.

See, when we did the first show, we realized that we would lose money. We also realized that show #2 wouldn’t make a killing either. However, we felt we HAD to do it because we needed to get the community together. We wonder if this altruistic thinking somehow permeates the spirit of the show and surfaces in all attendees and speakers. Because it just seems odd that we have that at our shows and others seem not to.

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