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Well, I went there and here's my feedback.
REASONS FOR GOING:
1. Meet people face to face and know who they are
2. Learn what everyone else is doing and see if there are people I want to work with
3. Find out what products and services are out there that may help me out.
4. Talk to other webmasters and find out what works and doesn't work for them.
In general, there were very few "webmasters" there. Mostly program pushing programs. Wished there were more of them. I wanted to ask them what they were doing and get ideas for myself.
The free drinks and party atmosphere made it easy to network I thought. All the smoking fucking sucked though. I could only stay a few hours each day. Fucking disgusting. Wished it was smoke free. Very hard to have a good time when your throat hurts and eyes are hurting. Not to mention all my clothes smell like an ash tray now. May others said the same.
For the most part I met my objectives. It was also good to develop my networking skills since I'm mostly an introvert and not a people person.
I got a few new ideas for things I want to try as a result of the convention. Being a photographer as well as a programmer I had several people interested in hiring me as well. That made it worth it as well.
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