Re:Of Booze and Brogrammers
by ryan-allen on Saturday April 14, 2012 @09:27PM
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I'm one of those programmers who likes drinking and yelling about JavaScript in noisy bars after a conference. I'm friends with both types of programmers as well, and enjoy sober conversations about JavaScript (again, usually yelling).
There's opportunity here to start another movement at conferences like how the unconf stuff popped up at the larger ones. Why not start a 'ModerateConf' unafterparty at these things? Have hacking spaces, name tags, light music and a small bar. All the 'brogrammers' (how I hate that term!) will go to the other places and do their shots of absinthe.
If you don't like 'parties' that's fine, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with them.
There's opportunity here to start another movement at conferences like how the unconf stuff popped up at the larger ones. Why not start a 'ModerateConf' unafterparty at these things? Have hacking spaces, name tags, light music and a small bar. All the 'brogrammers' (how I hate that term!) will go to the other places and do their shots of absinthe.
If you don't like 'parties' that's fine, but there's nothing fundamentally wrong with them.