Well, I think it’s kind of silly, but it looks like we’ve entered the age of Flash Festival Wars.
Flash Forward 2005 is scheduled for April 6-8 in San Fransisco. Flash in the Can is on for April 8-10, making it virtually impossible to attend both. I guess for many people, there is a choice to make when even when conferences are within a month or two of each other. I would love to attend them all, but having a wife and a kid and a job, two or three a year is probably going to be my limit. Still, a lot of people would attend both as long as they had time to go home, open their mail, wash their clothes and pat the dog on the head before heading out to the next one. Intentionally overlapping them is playing real hardball.
OK, so I’ve been invited to submit a proposal for FITC, and I have been previously invited for FF and could probably get on the schedule. So which do I choose? In the past, I’ve always heard how much better FITC was, but more recently I’ve heard a lot of people going the other way on it. I guess ultimately it will depend on who is going where. After all, that’s ultimately why we go to these things – for the parties after all that talking, right? 🙂
Discuss.