IrishTR,
sorry about the late response. I've been way too busy with work ever since being back from training and been enjoying the long weekends with friends (Bachelor Party).
As far as me going to the convention, I would love to go to represent GoldCoin... but I'm don't think I possess the technical knowledge to speak about it unfortunately if I was to be a guest speaker. While I have no problem talking about GoldCoin and I could probably make a presentation about it, I don't think I possess the technical knowledge to give a speech in front of other coin developers and very technical individuals. I feel like the audience would listen to me more if I knew what the hell I'm talking about both in the development side and the social/implementation side of Crypto.
What I CAN offer is to be there as a GoldCoin representative (not as a guest speaker) and get to know the other developers and try to spread the word to any interested both new and old investors. I can also film the conference and upload them so that you guys can all see and listen to the various developers. While I am no expert in this, I used to record and edit videos as a hobby... so I have a decent HD Camera with tripod and I can invest in a very nice portable microphone to capture the conference. This is assuming that they would allow me to do so.
I can also probably set up a booth and have brochures/goodies to handout while answering any questions that I would do my best to answer.
From what I saw, they want to charge $200 entry fee for spectators, I presume Speakers were free (as nothing I could find indicated any fee for that). It's also just a small stage/theater room again from what intel I could gather. I didn't see anywhere to really setup anything other than the podium I presume they'd use for the speakers while everyone in the crowd is just in chairs. And as far as the talking points I think it was more a social aspect with light technical talk in it, MicroGuy and Akuma had sent me some information that could help on the tech side. Darcy on FB had some good ideas for what our focus should be during presentation. So again help is here if you feel froggy.
I really don't know what to say/suggest on this at this point as I can't access certain places now due to work/where I am and it keeping me busy. But our campaign raised $360 total and then the fundraiser and paypal site is taking its cut outta that, I'm still waiting on 2 of the CC payments to be processed through, I think we'll end up with like $340est after they get their fees (paypal and indiegogo.com). So if we are not going to have someone there, I need to know what everyone who donated wishes to do with these funds. I also received a few GoldCoins but no information of from who/why (1900GLD if memory serves last I looked at Wallet), I did suggest giving those to our $100+ donators (Indiegogo slapped my hand saying I couldn't offer currency as a perk reward - officially so they removed it from the site to avoid cancelling it entirely and withholding any pending funds.
I am trying to be as helpful as I can and transparent as well, I don't want anyone to think I was in this for any personal gain or anything like that, I am doing this for our community. So please chime in especially if you donated as this IMO is your funds and should have the final say so what to do with them.
The Polo shirts were for the contributors of $50 or more (we had 4 total that fell into that category). I originally was designing on a Black Shirt, but the problem was with the current logo and colors it just did not look good on a black background and using embroidery (again I want these shirts to be ours and quality) the pricing for the amounts I saw weren't too terrible. For TShirt give aways/whatever we can get more creative with those since silkscreen is super easy to do and cheaper. Also wanna do that official Coin (no value just a community token/swag).
So let me know the consensus and I'll get processing on it. My only suggestion left is use the funds raised, for all those active participants as well as forum members possible, create some official swag, and leave some for future marketing/community support?
