not exactly a good sell? pay to get there? plus put some money up? no thanks!

sounds like a premise to a really bad reality tv show…

Sounds like a scam. They want u to tell them “what u would work on” – so you’re expected to share your plans and also pay your own travel. Nuts.

Don’t know many hackers that would be that excited by this.
Now if the venue was a canal barge in Amsterdam – that might be a different story.

Not so long ago FAS would have paid for it

Pay someone to go and work for two months without pay?
Do they think “hacker” is a synonym for “stupid” or something?

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If iv to pay to get there and put up a lump sum I’d rather just do it on my own steam as a relaxing holiday then having to work once iv unpacked!!!!!

sounds like a scam, dont think scams should be on the journal

Screen.message(“I’m never going to be desperate enough to program to pay for the privilege!!”); :p

Sounds like the Dharma Initiative are recruiting again.
Namaste!

Sure what’s the point will get no time to see anything on the island if your heads stuck looking at a computer screen all day every day can take months to programme anything decent

Phonejacker music playing in my mind.

Not feeling this one. Nice bit of marketing though to be fair.

Nerdnation

I’m the organiser of this event and I can assure you that this is not a scam. We’re genuinely trying to create an environment for 12 people to work and live in for 2 months as this has proven to be highly beneficial to their productivity. We have tons of people interested in coming, simply because they have idea that they don’t have the time for to implement them in their normal environment.

This article says we ask for their ideas, but right now if you read http://comehackwithus.com/, you will see that we don’t ask for any ideas anywhere at this point.

We ask people to pay for their own way to the island because we want to make sure we get only people who are highly motivated. This is one way of keeping the slackers out the door.

If anyone has any additional questions feel free to ask me at info@comehackwithus.com