jQuery Chicago Pebble Giveaway and Filing Extension
As we announced at the end of jQuery San Diego in February, we’re excited that the next stop for #jqcon is Chicago! In case you missed the news, we’ll be setting up shop in the City That Never Sleeps Isn’t Windy on September 12th & 13th, 2014. We’re partnering again with Bocoup to make it a four-day affair, bringing you Roost on September 11th & 12th.
Speaker Filing Extension
While we can’t do anything about today’s deadline for those of us in the US to file our tax returns, we can offer our own form of amnesty: a two-week-plus extension of our Call for Speakers until the end of April! If you got swamped in receipts – or anything else – and thought you’d missed your chance to submit, breathe a sigh of relief, and if you didn’t know the call was even open, this should hopefully provide you enough time to come up with a solid talk proposal. (And if you already have submitted, thanks!)
We’re experimenting a bit with our time slot construction in Chicago, so if you have a talk that you feel needs to go deep into technical material and run for 45 minutes or an hour, or want to lead a more hands-on-workshop type of session for even longer, we’re eager to hear about it and encourage you to to get in touch with questions about your ideas at content@jquery.org or on the #jquery-content channel on Freenode.
Join Us
Our early bird tickets have been going fast and will likely be gone before our original early-bird cutoff of May 31st, so if you’re aiming to keep another 50 bucks in your deep-dish pizza budget, you’ll want to act sooner than later!
The conference will be right downtown at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, and we’re able to offer attendees of both jQuery Chicago and Roost a discounted rate if you register as part of our room block.
Join Us…Together!
We’ve always held that jQuery is better with friends, and if you’ve got colleagues you want to attend with or send to the conference, we have group packages available that include sponsorships and discounts. Get in touch with us for a prospectus and to figure out how to get your team to Chicago!
A “Rocky” Start
If the prospect of jQuery’s first foray into the Old Northwest wasn’t exciting enough, we’re psyched to inform you that we’ll be giving away classic Pebble devices throughout ticket sales. We’ll take a random draw of people who’ve bought tickets each month and select 2-3 folks who’ll receive a Pebble from us (and the kind folks at Pebble who’ve donated the devices) at the conference in September. The sooner you buy, the better your odds, so what are you waiting for? This post is over anyway!