The organizers of ROFLCon, the wonderful conference on internet memes that took place at MIT in April (here are my ROFLCon photos), have been busy planning a series of smaller summer events around the US. On Friday, August 29th they will be hosting the mini-con ROFLThing at Mighty in San Francisco.
A great lined-up of speakers is already starting to emerge, including Andy Baio who will be doing a talk about the Star Wars Kid, Sean O’Steen founder of Fail Whale Fan Club and Cheez, who is president of I Can Has Cheezburger? Here is the preliminary schedule for ROFLThing and registration is now open.
Dogster & Catster have signed on as ROFLThing sponsors and they are still looking for more sponsors if know of any companies or organizations that might be interested.
See Previously: ROFLCon 2008 Photos
photos by Scott Beale
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Did the ROFLCon organizers realize that most of the web developers, programmers and designers in the Bay Area would be at Burning Man on August 29th?
They probably did not realize that, but these days I'm seeing just the opposite. Hardly any of the web people I know go to Burning Man. In fact that the tech parties I often try to see who I can find that even goes even goes to Burning Man.
Hey, I have an idea, let's have a little Twitter poll on this. I'm actually curious myself and Twitter should be a fairly good representation of web/tech people.
Here's the poll, should be interesting:
http://laughingsquid.com/poll-san-francisco-bay...
Great idea. The growth rate has remained steady over the last few years, but it be interesting to see if the demographics are changing.