On April 24-25, I’ll be attending the jQuery conference in San Francisco, and I hope many of you will as well! With speakers like John Resig, Steve Souders, Rey Bango, and other highly respected members from the jQuery team, it’s sure to be a fantastic event! Now, if you haven’t purchased your ticket just yet, the team has given me one ticket to give away for free.
“The San Francisco Bay Area conference is the second of four events planned by the jQuery Project in 2010. The first was the jQuery14 event, and additional conferences are being planned in Europe and on the East Coast for later this year.”
Hosted at Microsoft
“The San Francisco Bay Area conference will be held at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Center in Mountain View, California. This venue is the largest that the project has worked with to date (Harvard Law School in ’07, the MIT Stata Center in ’08 and Microsoft New England Research Center in ’09) and we expect to sell out very quickly.”
How to Enter
The winner will receive one complimentary ticket to attend the jQuery conference. He or she will still be responsible for accommodations, and/or travel expenses, per usual. If you’re in or near the Bay area of San Francisco, and would LOVE to attend, leave a comment of no more than three sentences telling us why.
If you aren’t selected to win the free ticket, admission is only $199, which is quite cheap when you consider the level of knowledge that you’ll gain as a result of attending.
I’ll be attending, and will hope to see you there! Will you be going?
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Would love to attend, now to figure out a way to get my wife to understand me leaving for a conference two weeks before our son’s due date…
Hey Jeff,
Heres my best attempt at humor…
if( $(‘#the_ticket’).is(‘#mine’) )
$(‘#Jeff’).has(‘.new_best_friend’);
Either way. Great site. I’ve learned a lot from the tutorials.
Cheers,
Chris
too bad I live on the east coast side!
I would pay for this and come but Uncle Sam is going to take lots of my money in April. A free ticket would make this much more affordable. I love Jquery and use it in combination with Drupal all the time.
I would jump on the very first flight to SFO and make sure I soak it all up. I love JQuery and use it daily in my webdesign business. I love the creativity and the challenges. Why should I get the ticket? Why not!
I would love to attend because it would allow me to visit with my parents and I’m already attending DrupalCon up there. I can tack this on and have a full week of learning….YAY!!
Sorry, there is a duplicate below. I saw the moderation comment and thought maybe it was an issue with my browser, so I tried with Chrome instead of FF. Just wanted to let you know!
I am a Junior at Santa Clara University and will be the first Web Design & Engineering major to graduate. I want to attend this conference because I’m looking forward to learning how to make my code look pretty and run at blazing speeds.
As the great astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” The jQuery conference should prove to exhilarate and embody those very words. Somewhere I would’ve only dreamt of going to. Have fun!
I don’t know JQuery, But I wouldn’t mind taking that pass off your hands.
I would love to see the latest ad greatest on JQuery. It is a huge time-saver. Keeping up to date is a must in web development
I would love to attend a conference in San Francisco. I have never been to a conference and think it would be a great way to network. Conferences present an interesting challenge to learn what is new.
Because jQuery is FUN!
My website would suck without jQuery. I am young web developer, just starting out as such, I don’t have any money to attend conferences like this one. It would be a huge opportunity for me to meet some new people, and spend a few days in my favorite city in the world. Plus, I live in Socal, and it’s way too hot. I could use a cold foggy day in the city.
I would love to attend because not only would it allow me to visit with my parents, but I’m already attending DrupalCon up there. I’m also currently unemployed and both DrupalCon and this jQuery conference are skills that would help me land the job I’m currently after. One full week of learning and training would be great…YAY!!
I live in San Francisco and I work at Ames in Mountain View, pretty much down the street from Microsoft (FYI the Microsoft shuttle is way cooler then ours). I am a graphic designer whose is just beginning the journey of becoming a web designer. So pick me so I can go to the conference with my friend @ryanolson and I can gain some knowledge.
- Christina
I am a young, growing web developer yearning to learn more. One of the first things about web dev I learned (even bofore JavaScript) was jQuery. And really, for me, $199 is very expensive.
This looks like a wonderful shared experience where a newbie like myself can both learn and become inspired by the events of the day. Being able to attend the jQuery Conference would be a warmly appreciated opportunity. And by my being so close to Mountain View– only the Bay Bridge and a ticket would stand in my way. Thanks for the offer.
I’m a recent college graduate and money is tight, but free tickets would help out a lot. Web development is passion and this will only feel like heaven once I’m there.
I’m an old school DBA type career changer who needs this sort of transfusion to kick me completely over onto the frontend. I don’t know anyone in jQuery development, dying (literally) to meet people. I’m loving jQuery and it would accelerate the ** out of my learning.
Hey Jeff, just have one question. When will the winner be announced?
Thanks
jQuery is awesome. I’m awesome. Make us awesome together.
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I would love to be able to attend the jQuery conference in San Francisco since I am planning a trip out there at the same time. I could visit a good friend and attain some great knowledge about jQuery in the process. I am currently freelancing sporadically so every penny I can save helps!
Too far for me to attend….
Good oppoturnities for others =)
Guess that isn’t a planeticket, right? ;)
What better way to describe how much I’d want to go, than in a haiku?
jquery is nice
the javascript it is good
I think it’s ready
It’s too far for me to attend though, so don’t actually count this as an entry. I just wanted an excuse to haiku. :P
Nenvy, LLC – My newly established and licensed company is looking to make a dent in the market of HTML5 website and application development. JQuery (our framework of choice) is our ticket to bringing an inexpensive and amazing experience to everyone, everywhere. Please select me as a candidate to winning this conference ticket – as I would be ever so excited to attend!
I’m a jQuery Addict, I’ve started to develop websites with this framework in 2008 and I couldn’t spend a single day at work without it. One of the best JS framework with a large community to help you. I’ll be the happiest developer on earth if i could attend this conference please please please :)
$(‘.nettuts’).delegate(‘.me’, ‘toAttend’, function(){ alert(“the conference!!!”); });
Why bother paying when you can win stuff,
From the nice people at NetTuts,
Please give me the ticket so I don’t go bust (or I’ll learn Dojo).
Roses Are Red,
Violet are Blue,
All Other Tech Websites Should Be Kept In The Zoo.
net.tutsplus always provides with the best tutorials online.
I want to go, thanks for the contest. I live very near to the bay area.
Regards,
Adil
I would love to go to the jQuery conference. I will already be in the area for the Drupal conference. Perfect timing!
Because jQuery powers the web!
I work for a non-profit museum now and am freelancing for profit and non-profit companies and organizations. This jQuery conference would help out my knowledge to help out the companies and organizations I do business and projects for. I love the jQuery framework and would love to pass on my knowledge to help build quality, interactive website for more organizations.
I guess I am disqualified for not living in or near the bay area. I live 2 states away.
I would love to attend this conference. I am actually going to be in the area for Drupalcon and have been a huge fan of JQuery and would really enjoy getting more insight to the framework.
I’d love to go. Its in my blood. One might even say its in my name…
Now how can the rest of uscompete with this?
Lol man, thats funny.
You win the internet.
Damn man, you really came prepared. I’d call it a day and just let this guy win it.
I wanna go! Now’s fine.
I LOVE jQuery!
I want to learn all about it!
Broke from DrupalCon.
Have been playing around with jQuery and love it. This would be perfect for me right now, since I’m going to be writing a lot more jQuery at my new job!
I have learnt a lot from netuts.com and specially from your tutorials. Getting a ticket to the conference will be a great opportunity for learning JQuery and meeting you. I have my fingers crossed.
I would love a ticket to this event I have been working with jquery for about a year now and this would definitely help take my skills to the next level. I live in San Francisco and work in Mountain View as a web development intern which makes even the low price tag of this event a bit high for me.
To bad i live in sweden ;) But if i win i will make sure to head over to the us for the first time. Se you there guys!
Jeff,
I have learned a heck of a lot over the last year and a half of coming to your site to gain knowledge. Jquery is huge on my list of to do’s and would love to see you down in Mountain View. I know a lot of good places to eat there!
I would love to go to this. I NEED to go. I must learn more. hmmf – overwhelmed now. :)
As a Junior Web Developer trying to excel in the Web Development industry I find I’m constantly trying to prove myself. jQuery has improved the quality of my work more than any other technology I’ve used in the past several years. I would love to attend the conference and gain even more knowledge to enrich my career!
Although I am really eager to sharpen my knowledge with JQuery by going to this conference (right across the bridge from me) I see plenty of passionate folks on here more deserving than me. Good luck to the winners!
I have a $400 voucher with Delta, my brother and sister living in the bay area and I am liking more every day NetTuts+jQuery so the formula is figured out: Delta + Family + NetTuts + jQuery = Happy Web Developer
Please contribute once again to web dev happiness!
I’m trying to convert a group of huge entertainment and news site owners over to jQuery. Hopefully I could bring some magic back from SanFran…
When it comes right down to it, I’m supposed to go to this conference. A guy named Jacob told me that I have to. We wouldn’t want to disappoint Jacob, now would we.
Please give me the chance to go to this awesome event.