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Port 70 -or- 1436CON | |
April 12th, 2018 | |
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sysdharma posted [0], I replied [1], and sysdharma posted [2] | |
again about a real gopher convention. Go catch up if you haven't | |
read those yet. I'll wait... | |
[0] sysdharma - Gophercon vs Gophercon | |
[1] tomasino - re sysdharma: Gophercon | |
[2] sysdharma - On a Gopher conference | |
Here's the thing. I want to do it. | |
Obviously it's not going to be in-person, but a virtual conference | |
is totally doable. Here's what I'm thinking: | |
- A 24 hour conference | |
- Everyone can submit a proposal for a session they want to run | |
with the following info: | |
- Who you are (handle) | |
- Title / Subject of talk | |
- Duration | |
- Preferred time-slot in UTC | |
- Medium of talk (video stream, audio stream, etc) | |
- Where will you be watching for feedback/discussion (IRC, | |
Social Media, raw TCP packets?) | |
We will need a place where these can be submitted and stored. | |
It would be great if the submissions could be done in Gopher | |
itself (anyone want to volunteer to write a cgi for | |
submissions?). | |
- After X number of days/weeks, we close submissions and print | |
up a schedule for everyone to review | |
- On the day of the event, it's up to the speakers to get | |
themselves online in their medium. (Maybe we can get a 24hr | |
anonradio takeover?) | |
- Folks can tune in and join the relevant chats | |
- Archive the shit out of all of it and host it EVERYWHERE | |
I also think we should do one or two "special" sessions and close | |
off the time blocks so they're not up against anyone else. | |
Round-table or panel discussions would be cool for this. I welcome | |
ideas. | |
Finally, I think a hackathon would be cool to toss in the mix. It | |
could be done the day of, or the day before and results shared out | |
on the day. I'm not sure what we could gather in prizes, but for | |
our retro-con I bet we could get a couple minor sponsors willing | |
to toss in some swag. I'd be amazed if smj didn't jump at the | |
opportunity to offload some old SDF stickers. ;) | |
Like the panel discussion, the focus of the hackathon would be | |
something great to debate. My first suggestion: "Gopher meets | |
Docker". What sorts of amazingly cool configurations could we bust | |
out for the community in easy-to-deploy ways? TLS? TOR? Whatever | |
you can dream up. We could vote on the winners on GopherPoll or | |
something. | |
Speaking of GopherPoll (thanks tfurrows for pointing it out), | |
I'd like to offer one up right away and get your feedback: | |
[3] What should we name this gopher convention? |