Looks like an awesome event… will try to make it!

It’s a well known fact that sysadmins belong near the bottom of the economic totem pole. That is why our meals mostly consist of instant ramen noodles and poptarts. So help a poor fellow out, will ya?

I cannot pay for the ticket because I spend up my money on paying the bills for the high speed internet…which I mainly require to read TECHCRUNCH….;)

@Brian and Ash

Needs more suffering. *looks at video comment button*

I’d love to be considered for the free ticket. May 24th, I graduate from college in North Carolina and really want to relocate to the Silicon Valley area. I’m really interested in cloud computing and what it means for the future. This event would be a great chance for me to meet some important people and possibly find a good job. Thanks!

No time, must finish app. will start worrying about infrastructure later.

Peter
do you follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

Because I work at Yahoo and I really need something to take my mind off all the stock I won’t be getting because of our fierce leaders decisions.

I live in cold and wintery canada. I need drive to my snowmobile to san francisco. I need my cash for gas money. Since gas is so expensive, I am needing any extra cash to heat my igloo.

Lately I have started applying cost cutting policies for myself.

1. I skip office every alternate day to save money on gas.
2. I eat one time — I dont have to spend too much on grocery.
3. As a result of #2 I dont have to spend on gym.
4. I keep in touch with my friends strictly through Facebook.
5. I dont pick up my Cell phone on Weekdays.

Obviously spending on Structure 8 doesnt fit in my cost sutting policy!

gas prices…up
foodstuffs prices…up
twitter…down
UC student fees…up
thumb signal from VCs for my latest pitch…down
my loyalty to techcrunch when I receive free tickets…up

Can’t afford a ticket because I am saving my money to buy ads on TechCrunch properties once my startup goes beta.

Am basically a tech guy, starting a new venture with no idea on how to start a business.. need all my pocket money there…
But its a very interesting & important topic (and very directly for my business)… really want to attend

I teach in the Ravenswood City School District (East Palo Alto) at Cesar Chavez Academy (public middle school). I am finishing my second year teaching and my salary from the school district this year is $42,641.

Our school leadership has set out a vision for our middle school to become a California Distinguished School–the first ever in East Palo Alto. After that happens, my personal goal is to help modernize public education by taking advantage of technologies including “cloud computing.” For example, centralizing basic IT services (e.g. email, calendar) instead of having each school district manage and run its own Exchange servers .

Going to Structure 08 would help me see not only where cloud computing is at but where it is going in the future from the leaders who are actually making it happen. Thanks for considering me and sorry for the lengthy post!

Here’s a link to my Visual CV:
http://www.visualcv.com/djyoo

I want a ticket.

Any money I have I spend on crappy food and good beer. It sucks. Every day I ride my bike (not enough money for a car) by all these nice restaurants on El Camino… the smells that waft out are so appetizing they make me cry inside. Sometimes, when I’m really dedicated, I don’t eat for weeks at a time in order to save up sushi. One time I didn’t eat for a month. Then I was robbed.

That month sucked.

So please - Let me go so I can get free food at this thing.

I have launched three companies in Europe, moved to the Valley and bootstrap my next company here. I am investing all my previous winnings and savings to development and business building, so having a sponsored ticket would help me participate and contribute my share to the startup scene in the Valley. Which in turn, I hope, will keep the local tech blogs growing…

my friend said that edgeio was nothing but a joke.
i bet him a years salary, and now i am broke.

Send Me To Structures 08 

can I get the ticket michael

I sleep on the floor and eat Matt Schlicht and Jason Baptiste’s left overs. Matt has a bike. I walk to work. When I can, I take snacks from the office to get me through the night.

I’m stuck with an old Dell laptop.

I don’t even have an iphone.

RPI Education: $100k
Car : $25k
Moving to Mt View from NY and renting: $10k/yr
My company saying the economy is “lumpy”: Raises on hold

24yo College Grad: broke…

#13 - You’re a teacher making $42,000? Noble reason for going (better than my reason of “it’d be cool”) but $42k isn’t too bad…try making less than that as a software developer at a startup in Cleveland. Yeah…Cleveland. Do I really need to say more?

Young developer here with a wife who likes to spend too much money, oops did I just say that? Help send me to the conference. Thanks

Because my Series A was led by American Express, Chase, and Capital One.

Hi, I am from Detroit. That should say it all. Ticket helps!!!!!

I’m working on my startup in my freaking basement using nothing but hosted services and a pos laptop.

@Mazy

He eats my food, meaning he saves money while I spend double.

Give me a ticket because my roommate steals from me.

Been coding since ages. Havent eaten anything in the last 15 hours, except countless cups of coffee. It’s six o’clock now. Is it six in the morning or six in the evening?

I guess I still have some money left in the saving account, but my life ain’t better than the life of the poorest beggar on earth.

Let me look at the logs and fix this jira issue before I write about my life more….

My money doesn’t scale; it’s built on RubyOnRails and has the conciseness of Scala. Structure08 will show me the way!

My board fired me as I am all the time on TC.

Ticket please

I work for MeeVee, according to you we’re “in trouble,” and how could I be expected to pay for this given all our troubles? We’ve planted money trees but they are not bearing fruit… yet.

Please send us! We spent all our “conference budget” last year to be in the Demo pit @ TC 40. Thats not a joke actually, we’re a small self-funded team.

Our service is trying to figure out how to use Google’s App Engine, and quite frankly we could really use the help!

Send “The Startup House

Well I wanted to go but I barely have enough money to feed myself for all 7 days of the week (pity anyone?).

Hopefully they will have some free food there, so giving me the ticket will not only allow me to attend this awesome event, but will also ensure that I do not starve for the day (or weeks if I find a jacket with big pockets).

= what I would say if I lived in the US. Unfortunately a plane ticket from Australia would cost 20 weeks of food.

I will already be spending tons on flying from other side of the world so would appreciate if I could get a free ticket .

hahaha

The video from #36 is pretty funny.

I like to get a ticket as I spend all my extra cash on Google I/O as I wasn’t fast enough to be one of the first 10 people to leave a comment on TechCrunch.

If you don’t give me a ticket, I’ll DDOS the site.

Kidding. But no, seriously.

I just adopted three kids (for a total of five children) and although my budget said I could afford to do so, I really can’t. One of my two monitors went out this week, the kids bumped my desk and spilt coffee in the keyboard, and I hear that horrid clicking sound in my hard drive now.

I can’t afford to stay home, much less go to a cool conference. But I desperately need to get a new job to afford these kids, and just maybe networking at the conference would both teach me some thing (making me more marketable) and allow me the opportunity to find that new job!

Hi, I am currently working as a software developer. I am quite interested in attending the conference to explore the variety of topics.

If I can get the ticket to the conference, I will donate $30.00 to UNICEF.

I am broke spending all of my $$$ on boot strapping a startup I want to enter in the TechCrunch 50 event.

By getting a ticket to the event you would be helping the boot strapping out while inreasing the knowledge base for the hosting infrastructure of our service.., thus increasing the strength service and demo at the event.

So basically you will be helping not only us.., but yourselves by having a better crop of projects at your event in September

I am currently living in a tent and working in fast food and I have to take the bus to work. $395 dollars is around 1 and a half weeks of work for me. I would like the ticket, but if Structure 08 doesn’t teach me anything new than I would rather take the money.

I’m a grad student studying IT and Privacy Law with an absolute fascination of cloud computing, and was just laid off as a corporate communications person and no longer have steady income, so the Structure Conference presents ample opportunity on multiple fronts.

Please-give-me-free-tickets haiku:
startup is costly
need cloud to be like Google
not be Microsoft

Structure 08 has my name written all over it. I spent the last 9 years as a major player at brand name venture capital firm that decided infrastructure was no longer cool and booted me as they shifted to a digital media focus and recruited two high profile digital media executives who now realize that their new partners are ethically challenged and raising a fund is in much harder than they thought. I will contribute much to the dialogue of the conference and am committed to paying full freight on the next conference when I land a new gig.

I’m hoping to be considered for one of the free tickets.
I too live in the cold and snowy canada!, but i’m not going to promote the misleading ‘we all live in igloos stereotype’, and along with the expense of travelling stateside, it appears I am only being able to build applications that quickly out pace my ability to afford to host them effectively.

I was looking at mosso and (mt),(gs) last night, as managing multiple instances on the ec2 is a bit beyond my level, and i can’t afford something like rightscale…well, not until have my first big hit anyway.

I vote for #36 .. They tried hardest..
and me.. of course

Please help me go to the event…I work for a major media company, but we are cutting costs. My biggest internal client is getting spun off, and I can’t spend my own money because I have to buy my baby medicine.

Why am I too financially impaired to pay for a ticket? because I host with RackSpace. That’s why.

Why am I too financially impaired to buy tickets to Structure 2008? Simple, I run a high-end managed IT hosting company focusing on hosting webapps for Web 2.0 startups. This means we have to buy a lot of hardware to host a lot of Startups with little capital, and now Amazon and Google are trying to put me out of business with Cloud computing!

Plus I’ve already spent my conference budget this quarter on Velocity!