Thanks, Ben! We're thrilled about it, too! (One of the organizers here)
The idea for the conference came out of discussions that @henrikjoreteg, @fritzy, and I had in Brussels in February early this year at the XSF Summit. Our team at &yet has been building realtime web + mobile apps for the last couple years. both for clients and for our own products. We've used a variety of different methods building them and made friends in several realtime-y communities, particularly XMPP and Node.js. There's so much new stuff going on in this field all the time, we wished that we could get people together from all the different communities working in this niche.
We're really grateful for being able to team up with Julien Genestoux of Superfeedr, who's the quintessential Hacker+Hustler CEO+CTO. We've also gotten tons of help and support from Chris Williams of jsconf and all kinds of other folks. We couldn't be more excited with how things have shaped up for krtconf so far after 8 months of ridiculously hard work! :)
The idea for the conference came out of discussions that @henrikjoreteg, @fritzy, and I had in Brussels in February early this year at the XSF Summit. Our team at &yet has been building realtime web + mobile apps for the last couple years. both for clients and for our own products. We've used a variety of different methods building them and made friends in several realtime-y communities, particularly XMPP and Node.js. There's so much new stuff going on in this field all the time, we wished that we could get people together from all the different communities working in this niche.
We're really grateful for being able to team up with Julien Genestoux of Superfeedr, who's the quintessential Hacker+Hustler CEO+CTO. We've also gotten tons of help and support from Chris Williams of jsconf and all kinds of other folks. We couldn't be more excited with how things have shaped up for krtconf so far after 8 months of ridiculously hard work! :)
We wrote about it here: http://blog.krtconf.com/post/8637335388/a-cross-communal-con...
It's gonna be a blast. :D