Hidden Amiga Developer Conferences with 10's of thousands of developers??

[redrumloa]

Seattle Times

"This is an exciting day for our city," said Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke. "Amiga's investment and commitment to our city will help make Kent a leading technology hub in our region. The "Amiga Center at Kent\" will bring tens of thousands of people to the city for events such as Amiga's international developer conferences and for Amiga's new product launches. This partnership will significantly raise the city\'s profile among a new, much larger, international audience."

WOW Why have I not heard of this conference?? Tens of thousands of developers are developing for the Amiga platform and/or DE(ad) I mean heck, did 10's of thousands of develoepers ever go to developer conferences during the Commodore era :-?

[Agafaster]

Hmm... it seems iffy...
how does the phrase
"Hook, line, sinker, rod, stool, box of maggots, copy of Angling Weekly" sit with you ?
I'm not usually one to negate goin's on at the Amiga Ranch, but summat ay ringin true...

[Oli_hd]

WOW Why have I not heard of this conference?? Tens of thousands of developers are developing for the Amiga platform and/or DE(ad)

When you look at the vids of the turnout to the last US Amiga show your lucky to get 100 today.
10,000 is just mad, specially for the cruddy games which are their only source of income.

Amiga.inc are so gonna get it in the next Q&A they do, the press releases are nothing but lies.

[jkirk]

notice it says 10's of thousands of people. have a few gun shows/pc shows/ entertainment events/ etc and you potentially reach that number. i don't think that means amiga developers. it's just marketing speak.

[jorkany]

"Amiga's international developer conferences"

LOL!
More evidence that city officials in Kent have never heard of Google.

[humppa]

jorkany wrote:
"Amiga's international developer conferences"

LOL!
More evidence that city officials in Kent have never heard of Google.

The tumbleweed on Amiga's AA/AmigaDE forums would have been another indicator. After 5 years with the AA/AmigaDE cr*p, there were just about 40-50 total posts in the respective support forum. Maybe half of them were "where is my t-shirt?" posts.  :lol:

[Fester]

Was this proposed to the City of Kent on April 1st?

Was there any background research done before this agreement?

I'd love to be hopeful, but this has to be a joke.

How embarassing for the mayor and sad for the taxpayers.

Fester

[weirdami]

All it all means is that Amiga gave them money to get their name on the building. And, apparently, a promise to hold conferences there. No background research needed when someone comes at you with a box of money. Except, maybe, to make sure "Amiga" isn't some weird pervy reference. :-)

[Fester]

Well, that's my point. I don't believe Amiga has any money. Not even Monopoly money.

[uncharted]

redrumloa wrote:

WOW Why have I not heard of this conference?? Tens of thousands of developers are developing for the Amiga platform and/or DE(ad) I mean heck, did 10's of thousands of develoepers ever go to developer conferences during the Commodore era :-?

AmigaCon - $50 Entry, free T-shirts available.

[bhoggett]

uncharted wrote:
AmigaCon - $50 Entry, free T-shirts available.

lol

Well established annual event, running consistently for over a decade now. :-)