I’m curious if Don was a registered attendee (I don’t see him on our list) or just showed up for the free day on Monday, in which case the free attendees, received no swag.

Don please email Tom and I, we’d love to explain the even in more detail to you so that you know what we’re all about beyond the one day exposure. Feel free to get a hold of us at info

and Doug’s face is silly, but I’m glad he’ll be on the shirts.

I attended the 360|Flex in Milan… and I’m sorry to to break your illusions – but there were no T-shirts there with your “silly face” on the sleeve (as you yourself put it).
Seeing the rather slim content and thus outcome of the “festival” in Milan (I take it that the US were better), it would have been nice to at least get a T-shirt in “swag”… I for one would think more than twice before ever attending a 360|Flex in Europe again…

Adobe actually responded when asked for swag that it was NOT an Adobe event and that it was the eventmakers and their sponsors that were responsible for that…

anyways… to be honest… you should probably be happy that your “silly face” was not associated with the 360|Flex in Europe as almost everybody was quite dissatisfied with it and openly proclaimed that 360|Flex should think twice before doing that stunt again in Europe.

Anyways… Thanks for always great input to the Flex-scene nevertheless.

Some tidbits for the non-Silvafuggers in the world. Doug only comes to our San Francisco meetings, vowing to never show his mug at our San Jose meetings.

While planning the first 360|Flex, this conversation took place:

Me: You coming for the conference?
Doug: I dunno. It’s San Jose and I don’t do San Jose.
Me: Dude, it’s 3 days and $100. You can rent a hotel if it’s that much of a pain to travel.
Doug: Yeah, you’re right. I guess I can come down for the conference.

So, Mr. Web 4.0 almost missed out on a life changing event due to laziness.

Speaking of lazy, here’s my second story.

On the morning of the first day, I see Doug stumbling around in the morning.
Me: Wow, not only did you come, but you showed up early.
Doug: Yeah, I was planning on sleeping in. However, Adobe told me that they’re going to show my components in the keynote and figured I should probably be here.
Me: Yeah, that might be helpful.

This just goes to show folks, never miss a 360|Flex keynote! LOL

Doug debuted his logo (now on our site) at the first 360|Flex in the form of business cards. “My business cards are even Web 2.0!” he gleamed. While they’re no mullet cards (ask for one of me and John’s to see what that is), it was a pretty cool card.

So while planning Seattle, John and I noticed Doug was gonna be an attendee. I stopped him at the next SF Silvafug meeting.

Tom: Hey Doug, why don’t you present at 360|Flex Seattle?
Doug: Me? What would I talk about?
Tom: (flabbergasted) Geeze, I dunno…maybe how to build custom components?
Doug: You think?

Just goes to show. For all the pomp and showiness that Doug exudes, really he’s just a stubborn, lazy…err, I mean just a regular schmoe like the rest of us…with an occasional mohawk.

Thanks for supporting our show Doug. We should compile a list of cool stories like this for a book to hand out. We’ve heard a few stories that warm our hearts. John and I are just glad to be able to provide a place for things to happen.

(Obligatory sales pitch) So everyone reading this needs to go buy their tickets asap!

sure 360|Flex is a great conference, i spoke in milan last april, the average session level was very high, so i hope tom n john will come back to europe soon. Here we need high quality conferences such as 360.

Anyway, honor and respect to you, if anyone would think at their own success as you’re doing maybe this world would be better.
i hope to get some time to hear you speaking at fotb (san jose is a little too far for me :\ )

bye,
Piergiorgio

What, you think they hired you because you have great hair?