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First ever Northern Ireland Developer Conference is on this weekend, tickets still available for anyone interested

39 points · submitted Jun 2017 by u/clairebones

First ever Northern Ireland Developer Conference is on this weekend, tickets still available for anyone interested

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nyl2k8 20 points · Jun 2017

$git checkout northern-ireland

$git merge republic-ireland

$git commit -m "Good move"

marke0110 12 points · Jun 2017 · Derry 
if( 26 + 6 == 1 ) {
     System.out.print("Up ah Ra!");
  }else {
     System.out.print("Tiocfaidh ár lá");
  }
OnyxPhoenix 7 points · Jun 2017

while True: Involve_politics()

r_park 2 points · Jun 2017

Pretty sure you would have a conflict or two here.

nyl2k8 1 points · Jun 2017

Conflicts can be resolved. :)

[deleted] 4 points · Jun 2017

£45 for a ticket or "pay your own price" honesty ticket. Ehhh what. So I can just throw £5 and get entrance? Why offer the £45 one? Serious question

EnzoScifo 5 points · Jun 2017

Quick guess the honesty tickets could be different coloured, or if not people might just feel a little more comfortable presenting themselves knowing they've paid.

If you are a student, junior developer or just don't care that much it isn't really an issue. If I were to go myself I would be presenting myself as a freelance developer looking for business. If a company sends some of their staff they are representing the company.

£45 isn't a lot if you compare it to a lot of the other conferences going about

[deleted] 4 points · Jun 2017

Yeah i suppose they could be different coloured , but I wonder though. I mean ye could be a fuck and pay 10p for an honesty ticket if ye really wanted. I have no background in programming or any current intention of getting into it but would happily go along to listen to some key speakers as I am interested in computing in general.

Just thought if a considerable amount of people got honesty tickets at £1 or £2 each, surely they'd make a loss

EnzoScifo 2 points · Jun 2017

For yourself then there would be no expectation to pay for the honesty ticket. I imagine they expect enough people to go who are representing businesses that will end up paying the lions share of what they receive, but it isn't in their interest to have a half empty event either and have the internet saying it was a rip-off and that's why nobody went

[deleted] 1 points · Jun 2017

Ah right dead on. Thanks for the insight. Yeah I might take a trip up and pay a fiver for a ticket !

ciaran036 1 points · Jun 2017 · Belfast

It's called an honesty ticket because they're relying on people being honest. And I don't think the ticket prices are so exorbitant that genuine honesty ticket holders would dwarf the full price payers.

clairebones [OP] 1 points · Jun 2017 · Bangor

The idea of the honesty tickets is so that freelancers, self employed people or recent graduates can afford to go if they don't have a company backing them. Not that the tickets are too bad, compared to all the european conferences I'd like to go to that are 500+EUR before travel costs.

[deleted] 1 points · Jun 2017

What about shites like me that don't know a dick about coding except that one module in my foundation degree ? Might go on ahead for the craic anyway

ciaran036 2 points · Jun 2017 · Belfast

Turns out I know or at least have met half the list of speakers before. Is the dev community in Belfast really that small?

Also, OP, are you one of the speakers?

It looks like an interesting event though, if I wasn't throwing away my money on alcohol and music festivals I'd totally be there 😛

clairebones [OP] 2 points · Jun 2017 · Bangor

Hah yes I am, which should answer your first point - the dev community in Belfast really is that small :P Not sharing for people to see my talk though as the smaller audience the better for me lol, but there hasn't been much advertising it outside of slack sadly.

ciaran036 1 points · Jun 2017 · Belfast

ah cool we've met then :) you were assisting (and was very helpful) at the Global Game Jam earlier this year at Farset labs.

clairebones [OP] 2 points · Jun 2017 · Bangor

Ah cool, yeah I've been running GGJ for the last 5 years now, glad you enjoyed!

[deleted] 1 points · Jun 2017

Met one of the speakers (Seemed like a really, really sharp bloke) a few years back, but I wouldn't pay £45 for the privilege of listening to him.