Google just announced the dates for I/O 2012: April 24-25

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26 points·flardinois··10 comments

Would you be interested in an I/O Error Conference, held at the same time, that would be (i) trying to be closer to I/O of old rather than a crowded swagfest (ii) not limited to Google technology and that would cover similar topics?

Why do you need to make it at the same time as the I/O?

Good point. I thought the head to head timing would bring more attention but doing it concurrently would lead to a lot of logistic problems, hotels, venues, would be full, etc.

Book your hotel now!

You won't need a hotel since it will sell out in milliseconds.

No doubt. I wonder if they stopped giving away shwag worth more than the ticket/travel cost if that would limit the crowds. Or do ticketing on a lottery system. (What bad consequences would that have; trying to game or hack it?)

IIRC in recent years they said there would be no swag but there was. So that probably won't work.

Yeah, the last two years they've said "there are no plans for giveaways," only to give away $1000+ worth in freebies to attendees. Nobody's going to listen if Google goes crying wolf once more.

The talks are worth well more than the $450 admission price, though, so I wouldn't be heartbroken in the least if I came home emptyhanded after all.

I am hoping they do pre-registration again for developers and those who have attended in the past.

This'll be my third I/O so I hope the same. But in any case I hope they don't use the same third party vendor who handled registration last year.

That was not fun for some colleagues of mine who spent the better part of an hour trying to get the registration site to generate actual pages instead of ColdFusion error messages.

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