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Re: sysdharma - Gophercon | |
April 08th, 2018 | |
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I was so excited about the possibility of a gophercon when I saw | |
the first mention of Brazil. I was just as heartbroken when it | |
turned out (once again) to be about Go-lang. It drives me crazy | |
that they keep using "gopher" for everything. Fakes me out every | |
time. Boo. | |
Bitreich has something they do in Germany for gopher, but I'm not | |
sure what sort of attendance it gets or if it's more for their | |
private community. I'd love a real gopher (1436) conference, but | |
we regular users are far too spread out around the globe. I can't | |
imagine many people traveling across continents to attend. Maybe | |
a virtual thing? Do those work? | |
If we were to have a conference I think it should either be called | |
simply "1436con" or "Port 70". No confusion there. What sort of | |
things would happen at a conference for gopher? Ideas: | |
- A talk or two on TLS and Gopher over Tor | |
- Panel discussion on the pros & cons of adding new ItemTypes | |
- "To gophermap or not to gophermap, that is the question" | |
- Social networking on legacy, minimal systems | |
- Other sociological stuff about community | |
- "Content is King" | |
What else? |