Hack.summit()

[martingordon]

This looks pretty cool; I just registered.

However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men.

While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.

[girvo]

> While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.

I don't disagree. However, is it reasonable to expect the conference speaker roster to have significantly higher diversity than the industry itself, considering those speakers are drawn from the industry? Some would say yes, and I think it's a good idea, but it is going to be harder.

I think the fact that to get a ticket I dontated to Women Who Code is more than most conferences will ever do, and I'm not going to vilify them for this, personally...

[jbhatab]

White males were the most encouraged demographic to go into tech when their age group was young. The fact that there are a lot more white males in that group just demonstrates what society was like in the past.

If I was throwing a convention, I would want the best and the brightest 30+ year olds for wisdom/experience reasons. And since everyone agrees that males dominated the space in the last 15 years, why would it even make sense for there to be a higher percentage of females presenting?

Should we punish these brilliant people (it's quite the collection of intelligence) because they were born in a certain era? I mean we could, but that would just bring us in another equally bad direction.

[edro]

Thanks for the feedback Martin. We're continuing to onboard additional speakers to further diversify our roster. The non-profits are helping us in this reach-out via introductions.

[edro]

Just so that this doesn't get buried in the comments, here's a repost: We have a special code for HN users to get a free ticket and bypass the registration process. We want to seed the audience with great developers who can help spread the word. Just put this code in: HACKERNEWS at http://hacksummit.org

[timblair]

I saw this, but decided to donate anyway.

[forestgood]

Here's a special code for HN users to get a free ticket and bypass the registration process. We want to seed the audience with great developers who can help spread the word. Just put this code in: HACKERNEWS at hacksummit.org

[bullfight]

It would be really nice to have some info about each programming non-profit. E.G. Why they are in your donation list. What they do. Why you like them. Why I should donate to them.

They all sound really interesting, and I want to pick a good one to give too, but unfortunately I don't really know anything about any of them.

As it is now there is a huge cognitive barrier to completing registration. I want to give, but I don't know whom to give to. I could complete the registration by facebook/twitter, but I can afford to give a little bit and don't want to go the free route.

I came close to closing the tab, thinking I would come back later, but I also know I might forget and I don't want to miss out on what looks like a great con!

[bullfight]

I went ahead and registered by posting to facebook using http://www.paywithapost.de/ and received a ticket code.

After doing so I received an email saying my registration was incomplete and the email gave a link to complete my registration.

Clicking back through to pay with a post it looks like they still have my registration.

Maybe the email is going out prematurely before you have a chance to receive a webhook from pay with a post?

[forestgood]

Great question. You can find out more about each non-profit by hovering your mouse on their logos on the homepage. You can also visit their websites by clicking on a logo, for even more deep information.

[edro]

Speakers include:

Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass) - Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language) - David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails) - Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell) - Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks) - Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS) - Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django) - Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led development for many Adobe products) - Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification) - Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co-created Agile, author of 9 books) - Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co-author of Design Patterns) - Bram Cohen (inventor of Bittorrent) - Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author) - Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark) - Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering) - Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow) - Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books) - Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator) - Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy) - Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight) - Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ) - Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us) - Orion Henry (founder of Heroku) - Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert) - Scott Chacon (CIO, Github) - Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well-known programming educator and blogger) - Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan) - Hadi Partovi (founder of Code.org, was in charge of Internet Explorer, advisor to Dropbox and Facebook) - Qi Lu (EVP, Microsoft)

[andrewrice]

Easier to read:

  - Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass) 
  - Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language) 
  - David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails) 
  - Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell) 
  - Rebecca Parsons (CTO, Thoughtworks) 
  - Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS) 
  - Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django) 
  - Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led development for many Adobe products) 
  - Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification) 
  - Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co-created Agile, author of 9 books) 
  - Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co-author of Design Patterns) 
  - Bram Cohen (inventor of Bittorrent) 
  - Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author) 
  - Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark) 
  - Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering) 
  - Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow) 
  - Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books) 
  - Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator) 
  - Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy) 
  - Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight) 
  - Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ) 
  - Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us) 
  - Orion Henry (founder of Heroku) 
  - Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert) 
  - Scott Chacon (CIO, Github) 
  - Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well-known programming educator and blogger) 
  - Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan) 
  - Hadi Partovi (founder of Code.org, was in charge of Internet Explorer, advisor to Dropbox and Facebook) 
  - Qi Lu (EVP, Microsoft)

[petercooper]

(First off, yes, this is very cool :-))

This strikes me as an ingenious way to promote a service like Crowdcast. Even if the speakers are being paid for their time, the thousands (potentially?) of developers who will get to know about the product through what is essentially a live demo will be very valuable. And it raises money for charity. Assuming the technology holds up, this really does seem like a win-win :-)

[edro]

Thanks Peter. We are working closely with the founder of Crowdcast. He's an incredible programmer and we're lucky to have him helping us. He benefits tangentially from this exposure.

[saidur]

Haha thanks for the compliments Peter ;)

(ceo of Crowdcast)

[daviddoran]

The "Favorite Languages" need a little updating. I wanted to pick OCaml, Rust and Hack.

[edro]

Haha.. we've got "Other" as a catch-all. Not quite as cool as listing more languages :)

[jjcm]

Given the title of the page, I'm kind of disappointed that this wasn't defined. http://i.imgur.com/zKu6byK.png

[forestgood]

Give us 24 hours to come up with something cool :)

[aperture]

Very cool, I registered with the HN code with no problems.

Will these hangout videos be recorded for viewing later? I did not see that listed in the FAQ.

[edro]

Yes, it will be recorded for those who registered. Note: by attending the live event, you will be able to ask Q&A with the speakers too :)

[allmakebelieve]

What a fantastic line-up! Is there an agenda yet - I couldn't find one?

[edro]

Full agenda coming soon :)

BTW, here is a special code for HN users to get a free ticket and bypass the registration process. We want to seed the audience with great developers who can help spread the word. Just put this code in: HACKERNEWS at http://hacksummit.org

[arthurcolle]

Any chance you could accept bitcoin? Seems like a really cool event otherwise.

[edro]

I think that's a great idea. We really wanted to accept bitcoin but ran out of engineering bandwidth. We were looking at dogecoin too. I hope developers who are unable to pay in cash will still join us through sharing on social media (or if you're a hackernews member, using the free promotion code mentioned elsewhere in these comments).

[yarou]

I just wanna say: awesome job on the UX. That alone makes me want to sign up.

[TeamMCS]

Any clue what timezone?

[hugorodrigues]

OMG! Best lineup EVER!

[startupbs]

Wow! i cannot wait.