John "Dingo" Torque's C6 conference set to crush oldcomer C4

Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch's C4 conference will have some competition in the indie dev circuit this year in the form of C6, a new conference designed to bring independents together to talk about the things that matter most to them.

Conference organize John "Dingo" Torque is best known for having a silly name, but also wrote some very powerful, but little known packages such as mach_syringe and mach_superoverride. According to Torque, C6 is a replacement of MacShack.

"While one can never truly replace MacShack, I think developers miss squatting in a an abandoned little cabin in the countryside, hiding from ferocious wolves while bitching about NSTableView. I know I do," said Torque.

The C6 conference (Code, Conspiracy, Culture, Conspiracy, Community, Conspiracy) will include a competition, the likes of which has never been seen.

Called SteelCoder Live, it will pit top developers against each other — literally.

Quoth Torque, "We're going to have a sweet pit full of crocs, yeah, and anybody that tries to show us something that's just a silly hack is going to get tossed in there."

Instead of just gang signs, there will be actual color wars between rival gangs, which appear to have started early on Twitter. Racial awkwardness brought up at C4[1] promises to blow up to possibly actual tensions despite a recent inspiring speech by presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

"We're going for at least one actual lynching or I'd settle for a name-call or two," said Torque. He also promised that the least interesting speaker of each day, as determined by number of detrimental twitters, will be fed to the hungry crocodilians.

"We've got to keep the quality up somehow," he said.