Joel on Software

Conferences

Jeff Jarvis: “Too many conferences suck.”

Robert Scoble: “But, wanna do a 1,000 attendee conference? Costs per attendee start going up exponentially.” Apparently the problem is that the big convention centers rip you off, charging $1000 for an urn of coffee.

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I’m Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Fog Creek Software, a New York company that proves that you can treat programmers well and still be highly profitable. Programmers get private offices, free lunch, and work 40 hours a week. Customers only pay for software if they’re delighted. We make FogBugz, enlightened project management software for bug tracking, Kiln, which provides distributed version control and code reviews, and Fog Creek Copilot, which makes remote desktop support easy. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow.