I'm going to this but I was planning on not buying a ticket and just going to various shows / parties with a big group of indie music type friends.

Are there any panel discussions that are free? At any rate I'm pretty pumped up about this. I'd be down for meeting up some startup types at a bar. Anyway this seems really fun, I'm pretty pumped!

I went last year and was underwhelmed. Most of the talks necessarily had to speak to the lower common denominator in the room.

My advice would be to avoid going to talks/sessions about topics where you're knowledgeable and stick to stuff that's new/interesting to you.

Oh, and have fun. The parties are a blast!

The real value in most conferences is in the hallways, talking to the other attendees.

How about:

Sunday, 12:45 (previous session ends 12:30, next session starts at 2PM)

Where: Rio Grande (good Mexican food, close to the convention centre) http://tinyurl.com/2cfd7a

This thread seems like it kinda died off. Wanna make a facebook event for this and see if a bunch of people want to come?

I'd like to meet up. I live in Austin so I know the area really well. I bought the full badge, so I'll be going to see a lot of bands as well. Feel free to send me an email.

For anyone going to the music, I strongly recommend the best band from Pittsburgh touring nationally, Black Moth Super Rainbow.

Sounds like fun. I'll be there. Sunday night is the bowling, so I'm good any other night.

Three of us are going to be there. Agreed. We should definitely meet up.

I'll be there for Interactive and Film. A meetup sounds like fun.

Sounds cool, I'll be there!