ETech 2008?

[prog]

Seriously considering applying to ETech 2008's CFP. In fact, I have already written my (exactly) 100-word bio first, which with my ego is basically like eating dessert first:

Jason McIntosh is a Boston-based writer, entrepreneur, and hacker. The study of games has been a lifelong passion to him. He has two podcasts about games, and has been working on Volity, an open Internet game platform, since 2000. He is remembered by some within O'Reilly as a programmer who tried to get everyone in the Cambridge office to play board games every Friday. The co-author of two O'Reilly books, "Perl & XML" and "Mac OS X in a Nutshell", he currently pays the bills as a Web programming contractor while somehow trying to twist a career about out of Volity.

I can objectively state that applying would be a very bold move. I'd want to highlight the web client during the presentation, because it will have been in beta for several months by then - but at the time of my application, it's not even in alpha yet. On the other hand, everything's going to plan so well (and ahead of schedule) so far, it doesn't seem outright foolhardy, either.

Comments

[doctor-atomic.livejournal.com]

Go for it. Always a good idea to get your ideas out there for people to scrutinize and tear to shreds, and I mean that in the sincerest way.

[katre50.livejournal.com]

"a career about of Volity"? Don't you mean "out of"?

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yyyyyes.

[katre50.livejournal.com]

This is where you say "I wasn't asking for copy-editing!" and I reply "But I'm a humorless pedant!"

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's in San Diego.