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Had to edit title to meet HN length requirements. More accurate alternatives welcome!

> "People have been asking me what happened when I didn’t show up to give my talk on the Web Animations API at Smashing Oxford."

As we submit to present at tech conference abroad and invite others to come to our country to present, we should be aware of situations like Rachel exprienced.

Your main competitor that was just sold.

I would have preferred to do an immersive, in large part for these reasons, but couldn't afford both the tuition and loss of income for months.

The BC I attended claimed to have a flipped classroom model, which would have been better that in instructor in the front of the class demonstrating code. In addition, I was apparently one of the few students who actually did want to change careers, so my "peers" were never willing to work outside of class. Despite my day job, I put in at least 2 hours outside of class for each how in class.

Even with the after-hours approach, if the classroom model had actually been flipped, and there were several peers to work with outside of class, it would have been significantly better, and I think I could get a junior dev job.

I'm a graduate of an after-hours web development bootcamp who wants to move to a full-time web dev job.

I certainly can't move to a full-time web dev job at a reasonable salary after the bootcamp I attended. If I was willing to intern for 6-12 months at minimum wage, I would be able to - but I could have done that without the bootcamp.

The bootcamp doesn't share stats, only a post-graduation "employment" percentage. Which is pretty meaningless, for example, I'm employed but not doing web dev.

"Because Convention Man doesn't sound as cool." :-)

> It's also anonymous chat so nobody is embarrassed to ask "stupid" questions.

That's awesome!

You mean "SOLITUDE"? ;-)