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Cruise ships are kind of ecologically awful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship#Environmental_impa...

As a Mexican who has seen our beaches gradually destroyed by endless visiting cruise ships year after year, I feel compelled to remind people how terrible they are for the planet.

Not to mention, they are also super legally sleazy. They are often harboured at countries that have no legal protections. If something happens to you on a cruise ship, it's your own damn problem. Being registered in those tiny corrupt countries also means that they don't have to answer for their ecological destruction.

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/3-dark-facts-cruise-lines...

I wish I could be excited about going to such an event. It seems like it would be super fun. But I don't want my fun to promote such evils. I am very saddened by the coral reef destruction I have witnessed first hand throughout my life.

http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/environment/how-ships-ar...

http://notigodinez.com/empresa-constructora-de-muelle-dana-g...

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while when it comes to conference. As someone with a young family, I cringe when I have to think about going to another city for a conference, which is all the time because I live in Cleveland. Its not the travel, I rather like traveling: its leaving the wife with the kids and just up and going. This allows me to take the kids and wife, and not feel too bad about abandoning them to fend for themselves for a week.
This is exactly why I'm organizing it. I have two kids (and a husband who likes to have me around), and it's always a bit of chaos when I leave for a conference.
Thanks for organizing it! Ill get with my wife, but this seems very affordable and fun event in particular for a family of four its the same cost as a normal "large" conference ticket and those don't include all you can eat food and daycare.
I organized Code on the Sea 2015 (http://www.codeonthesea.com/) back in Feb/March, and it was a very rewarding experience.

Best of luck with your cruise conference!

Daycare really peeked my interest as well.
My kids both love the programs available, and they go all the way up to 17. For the teens, the format is about hanging out, and for the older teens, they even have exclusive excursions.
Have you sorted out internet connection onboard? That is often a problem / very expensive on cruises.
That's exactly what I was wondering. A boat full of software engineers is going to want some internet...
I've long since dreamed of working remotely while taking a boat over to Europe - this is exactly the reason why I haven't. Hopefully one day...
Pretty cool. Ever since going solo I've wondered why more development conferences aren't in tropical locations so it can double as a vacation :-)

I worked at an agency that did work for pharmaceutical companies and doctors/med salespeople do this all the time! There were a couple of jobs in Punta Cana, DR alone each year.

There was such a company for a while; I spoke on the first two "Geek Cruises," which has since re-dubbed itself "Insight Cruises" (http://insightcruises.com/). I'm not sure which market forces pushed them in this direction. We managed to see Alaska and the Caribbean, which was super fun.

I must admit that while those cruises were great fun and quite interesting, they showed my wife and me that it's not the kind of vacation or travel that is our style. Lots of other people do enjoy them, though -- and I'm happy to see that someone else is trying this!

The organizer might want to contact the Insight Cruises people; I don't think that they're in direct competition any more, and perhaps they'll have something useful to suggest from their experience.

This might be an "obvious" question but where is the list of talks or call for authors?
It's going to be an 'Open Space' style conference, so there will be a call for Open Space themes later on.
Don't know if the creator will see this comment, but the hover state of the signup button is still Bootstrap's default btn-success style.
Wow, I wish there was something like this for JS
Once this is all over, I'd be happy to write up a road map for how I did it! Maybe someone in the JS world will pick up the banner.
Awesome, I look forward to it!