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Thom, I appreciate your opinion and thanks for your contribution. Let me clarify the confusion: Auston published an infographic/ad that favorably represented h

Thom, I appreciate your opinion and thanks for your contribution. Let me clarify the confusion: Auston published an infographic/ad that favorably represented his conference versus some of the competition (including Calicanis' Launch). Calicanis was contacted via email to correct the issue which was ignored. He then contacts TNW's parent company to mute the "unfavorable" ad. Auston describes his perception of the problem. It just so happens that Calicanis is a prominent figure of the hacker community, hence the potential interest to HN. Two emails were sent to him which were ignored. Do you really think a phone call is going to be additionally productive?

ThomPete 15y ago
I don't know if it would and of course you are right that he is prominent. Think I just somehow is sadned by the personal nature. I think most people are well aware of JC's at times dubious nature. I just don't think it's really important for me. But sure if you feel it's important I certainly won't deny you the right. It just feels so below a person like you.
- mikegreenberg 15y ago
  Thank you for the kind word, but please allow me to offer a little more detail about the shoes I wear. As a native Floridian, local hacker and community contributor; we are struggling to develop a better ecosystem in our area. And when I say struggling I mean: fighting to find a consistent membership to attend meetups, traveling long distances to support each other's projects and groups, coordinating events and efforts to maximize exposure for EACH event we organize (since the available attention in our local market is spread VERY thin), and working hard to gain the attention of other communities/groups/media to keep growing. I can guarantee that the amount of effort we have to invest to get things accomplished here in South Florida as compared to that in more successful communities (SF, NY, Boston, Austin, etc) is a ratio that not in our favor. So when Calicanis suggests to one of SuperConf's media partners that the infographic is misleading and ignores the efforts that Auston made to correct the situation, that's not just another injustice by Jason Calicanis; that's him using his connections in the valley to defeat a small competing conference's attempts for exposure.

ThomPete 15y ago

I don't know if it would and of course you are right that he is prominent. Think I just somehow is sadned by the personal nature. I think most people are well aware of JC's at times dubious nature. I just don't think it's really important for me. But sure if you feel it's important I certainly won't deny you the right. It just feels so below a person like you.

mikegreenberg 15y ago
Thank you for the kind word, but please allow me to offer a little more detail about the shoes I wear. As a native Floridian, local hacker and community contributor; we are struggling to develop a better ecosystem in our area. And when I say struggling I mean: fighting to find a consistent membership to attend meetups, traveling long distances to support each other's projects and groups, coordinating events and efforts to maximize exposure for EACH event we organize (since the available attention in our local market is spread VERY thin), and working hard to gain the attention of other communities/groups/media to keep growing. I can guarantee that the amount of effort we have to invest to get things accomplished here in South Florida as compared to that in more successful communities (SF, NY, Boston, Austin, etc) is a ratio that not in our favor. So when Calicanis suggests to one of SuperConf's media partners that the infographic is misleading and ignores the efforts that Auston made to correct the situation, that's not just another injustice by Jason Calicanis; that's him using his connections in the valley to defeat a small competing conference's attempts for exposure.