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LXJS, The Lisbon Javascript Conference. Organizer & Curator

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David Dias
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David Dias
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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
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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
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