LXJS was a two day conference, for the community, by the community and not for profit about the new worlds of Javascript.
How LXJS come to be#
LXJS came right at the start of the Lisbon Startup & Tech Ecosystem boom, also marked by the birth of StartupLisboa. Nuno Job & Pedro Teixeira, two long time friends and successful tech entrepreneurs wanted to bring the future and all that they learned overseas to their home country, they decided host a JavaScript meetup, but quickly it grew to become a conference.
In 2012, I stumbled upon LXJS website early on and given being a broke student on social wellfare to get through college, there was no way I could afford the ticket. I sent an email asking for an opportunity to attend and in return, I offered to do anything! I would clean floors, serve coffee, set up the venue, anything. Nuno reached out and had a multiple hour conversation with me, at the end, he offered me the role of co-organizer, which I was absolutely blown away.
In 2013 I was offered the opportunity to be the main organizer for the conference and I took it head on. Putting it together from 2012 to 2014 was not easy, I could potentially write a small book of all the epic challenges it took to pull it together and how I had to grow so much to make it happen. I’m immensely thankful to Pedro and Nuno for trusting me.
I couldn’t be more proud of what it became, what it represented and I carried the values I learned and grew with LXJS to all of my community and open source endeavours.
People seemed to like it a lot <3#
- Jan Lehnardt (JSConfEU Curator): “LxJS was a riot. A must-attend conference. Much <3 to the team for put this together”
- James Chesters (10gen Community Lead): “LxJS is easily one of the best conferences I’ve been to, ever. Being community organised and not-for-profit makes it all the better”
- Tom λshworth: “Will be leaving @lxjs inspired and full of excitement for new things. Exactly what I needed.”
- Hagbard Celine: “1st time was awesome, 2nd time was fantastic, 3rd time was a charm. Thank you @lxjs for 3 years of lovely & friendly conferencing <3”
- Xavier Cambar: “@lxjs is like Woodstock, everybody: * dies for a new edition; * wishes they were there; * speaks of it as a key cultural moment”