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A Long Strange Loop

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Notes

2009--

Become more accepting,open

Tivoli in the fall

Lambda Lounge Meetup

Inspired by hofstadter's book :)

300 people instead of 150 people expected

Conference:

Context, content, people

Context

• venue

• sharing the same space

• a third place (Ray Oldenberg) -- a place to relax in public

• union station -- largest station in the world; expansive places

Content

• keynote, session, workshops

• 5000cfps, 1000 talks

• youtube worked well

• mix industry folks, big thinkers from academia

  • humanities and interesting places software was going

  • encourage people to be more human

• talk reception is very subjective

  • there's someone who's problem was solved

• multi track -- chose your own adventure

• match expectations in title & abstract

  • 99% of the reason talks fail

  • content matters most

2013 -- Doug Hofstadter keynoted

2013 -- music composer, gregorian chants for algorithms?

thrown for a loop on vimeo

Joe armstrong :)

the hard parts

2019, 2020 were rough

3 year out contracts

increasing women speakers correlates with increasing women attendance

ticket sales per day has a surprisingly consistent slope

risks -- mostly external events

virtual conferences

• happen in 1st/2nd place -- no 3rd place behavior, which is hugely important

• time zones

• harder to connect

• works for a community where people already know each other

Interesting hybrid alternatives

• go someplace in city/region

• movie theatres, etc.

• present talks locally, and then watch videos from other places

hit all the goals of strange loop

— Kunal