Last week I wrote about overpriced conferences, so this week I thought I’d write about the other side of the coin. I’m sitting on a train in Brighton that was supposed to be in London by now, but am happy as a peach. I’ve just come from a fantastic conference, Points Brighton, that I was asked to speak at last minute due to one of their speakers being sick.
It was a mini-conference and I had to leave it early, in order to not be stuck from the tube closing. Tickets were about £6 and this was their second one.
They had a FANTASTIC raffle, in which I won one of the tees (Tim Van Damme‘s PxlFucker) AND books (Remy Sharp‘s HTML5) I’ve been wanting for awhile. I also won the entire set of the A Book Apart series, although I gave them back and allowed them to be raffled off to someone else since I already had the whole series. Oh, and did I mention the beautifully designed set of postcards that will be making its way to my office walls? Or the free drinks?
All of these items, including the venue, The Skiff, were donated to Points. All of the ticket and raffle proceeds go to Tia’s Charity, set up by Remy Sharp, which is a charity I love supporting and have always tried to donate when possible.
The speakers were fantastic and engaging. James Seymour-Lock spoke about achieving client goals and wireframing with content. Krystian Szastok spoke about real SEO. And although I had to miss it, I heard David Pomfret‘s talk about typography was the best of all of us.
The people who attended were awesome and it was great to see a ton of those that i had been talking to on twitter for so long. You guys absolutely rock. I think Nikita (my hubby) enjoyed it as well and even made new friends with James. He needs new nerd friends.
All of this awesomeness for only £6 and the good feeling that it was all being donated to a charity. You can’t make a better conference than this.
When’s the next one, Mike?