Go to OSCON 2017 #948
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https://www.google.com/search?q=oscon+free suggests that they've offered free "expo hall" passes in the past, which seem like they'd be a good fit for how I like to approach conferences anyway. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon2009/public/content/expo-hall Worth emailing them, I think. For $1,000 I think this would be a no-brainer. |
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I called and talked to a rather unhelpful customer support rep. Sounds like they don't announce the expo hall registration until a week or two before the conference. Advised to email. Dropped a DM instead:
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I can't imagine they won't offer the expo pass again. They've apparently offered it for the past eight years! |
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"3,000+ like minds" in 2014 ... maybe twice as big as PyCon but not 10x. |
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2016 expo pass shows up in Google serp but not in cache or archive.org. It's 404.
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So is it a reasonable deadline of gratipay/gratipay.com#4148? Or something else that can make a hit? |
Yes, I would hope to have Integrate npm done before OSCON. |
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@clone1018 If you go to OSCON what days/nights would you expect to be in Austin? I guess that's the first question, and then we can spec out a shared Airbnb. |
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@whit537 I live 3 hours away so whatever is fine 🚗 |
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DM response from OSCON:
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Pretty sure @calvinhp is willing to split a room with us, @clone1018. |
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I could be down with that |
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Flight booked! Arriving Friday, May 5, departing Friday, May 12. |
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@clone1018 @calvinhp What nights will you be in town? |
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I'm finding places for $1,500 within walking distance, and closer to $1,000 five miles out. That's two or three bedrooms. |
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Sorry I've been MIA :P. I have no set plans right now, I can be there anytime and I'll be driving so we can go wherever. 🚗 Does that help with the housing cost @whit537 ? |
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Total cost was $689.00 for seven nights, or $98.43 per night. We're splitting two nights three ways. Two nights is $196.86, split three ways is $65.62. So that's $65.62 for @calvinhp. That leaves $623.38 between @clone1018 and @whit537, or $311.69 each. Is my math right? |
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The listing says it accommodates 4, would we be able to find anyone else to split it one more way? I guess I never fully realized the cost of the AirBNB. If not let me see what I can make work |
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Chip in whatever you can, @clone1018. You're contributing a 🚗 anyway. :) |
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I'm happy to chip in more if needed. |
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Cool, we can figure it out when we get there. |
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@whit537 What's your favorite type of fruit for a Kolache? |
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Oh gosh that sounds awesome. I usually get the savory ones but fruit sounds awesome too. Follow your heart? 💃 |
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We are confirmed for crepes with Salesforce on Thursday morning! 💃 🇫🇷 |
tl;dr Yes. All systems go for the Cottage! |
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Good first day! Luke opened up the Cottage and then picked me up at the airport in his 1991 Mazda pickup truck(!). Turns out the kolaches are a specialty from Czech Stop, which is half-way between Dallas and Austin—a real treat! We walked the river trail over to Bangers for the CLS opener, caught Jono and Hibbets first thing in the door, met some Joomla and Mattermost crew. Drinks were sponsored by Mattermost (Old Rasputin on nitro!), met the founder, pitched him on Gratipay, he was like, "The problem you're going to run into is that people are too polite. They'll tell you it's a good idea to support open source but then won't actually do it." It was stimulating and he's not wrong. Tomorrow we have CLS and we also have an invitation to a birthday party for one of the co-founders of (Shark-Tanked, Cuban-funded) Beatbox Beverages. Her parents are acquaintainces from back home in Ambridge(!) and I had lunch with them at the Pittsburgh airport(!!) though they were on some $50 flight through Allegiant(!!!) instead of the United(!!!!) flight I was on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Talked about #987 (comment), etc., etc., etc. On to the next! |
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Good second day! The folks here at CLS tend to be people at larger companies who are responsible for managing the company's relationship with its developer community. We did meet a couple of folks that are community organizers in the political sense ("We get a few every year"—Jono) and I shared GitHub Ambridge with them. 💃 I also introduced them to Bijoy, another local who is the one person I've met who came in via the ✉️ outreach. Jono did call me up front and recognize that work, which was cool and only slightly awkward. I connected with Lisa later in the day partly through that. 🍸 Back to the top … the keynotes were from people at Magento, OpenSource.com (so I was buried there in some of the stats ;), Intel (I learned about "share of voice"), and All Things Open. We had lunch with Yaw and Hélène from OpenDataKit, Georg and Chris from Bosch, Cecilia from Open Tech Strategies, and Daniel from Bitergia. (An aside: the lake here is actually the Colorado River, damned at both ends … but not the Colorado River. ;-). After lunch we participated in Hélène's session on code review along with Georg and Chris, Krislin from the Navy, and Joram from Mattermost. I think for us the session validated that Gratipay has a pretty solid dev process for our size … and a pretty awesome culture. Mid-afternoon we slipped out for the Beatbox co-founder's birthday. It was nice! Gave her roses and chocolates and met the other founders and some other friends, including Damien from Everything. And oh yeah we drank some Beatbox (@clone1018 has a picture of a picture 😁 ) and @clone1018 ate lots of Syrian food and I got a temporary tattoo. We landed back at CLS in time for ☕️ with Jono and Steven Walli (whom I first met at ATO, #757) as well as Jeremy and Elon from Linux Fund (had a good chat—like us, they've moved just over $1M and have $100k in escrow 😆 ). At some point in the day Danese punched a penny and gave me the inner source pitch ("It's the long tail of open source because you're introducing people to open source in a less threatening environment so eventually they can contribute to real open source," more or less). Back at the Cottage at the end of the day we workshopped #987 (comment) until pumpkin time. |
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Side note for tomorrow's post, me and @whit537 attended this session https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y0p2V_dkSIFvatEy-mQyoFzipdVwKpILSlt_JFKvpuQ/edit |
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That was for yesterday's post. :P |
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Good third day! We arrived in the middle of keynotes yesterday morning. Sticker ROI was the slide winner. We actually hiked back to the hacienda to hack over lunch. That's when I wrote up #1057. Cut it close so drove back over for a 3:30 session on funding in open source hosted by Cat Allman, open-source purse-string holder at Google(!). There were about 35 people at the session. Not really much new news for us but a good chance to meet people, including Cat and someone from IBM and someone from Docker. Failed to follow-up properly with Cat so trying to track down her email now, will keep an eye out for her this week. I apologized to a couple folks for #319, one of whom was pjf, a key customer support collaborator under Gittipay 1.0. It was great to finally meet in person! Paul and I were in a session on swag. I learned some things about scaling up a swag program (e.g.: send to a local corporate office and let the company handle international shipping—might work for cookies? ;-). That was the last session of the day. After the CLS wrap-up we ended up punching pennies and talking about the Gratipocalypse (somehow?) and then ended up talking over dinner with Hélène and Abby Cabunoc Mayes about #1057. Abby has been in open science at Mozilla so we talked about that for a bit as well, her position recently expanded to encompass mentorship programs in a number of other areas. A group of us went to see the bats and I finally got to meet Karl Fogel! He works with Cecilia. When we got home we finished the Beatboxes and fell asleep. |
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Good fourth, fifth, and sixth days! Monday and Tuesday we mostly hacked together. Highlight was getting gratipay/gratipay.com#4305 out the door! Woo-hoo! 💃 Today we picked up @calvinhp from the airport and spent the day in the expo hall. Saw a bunch of people and punched some pennies. GitHub, Changelog, PayPal, Postgres, FreeBSD, Huawei, RIT, OSI, SFC, LF, etc. Dined on sushi with Kapil from Capital One. Stored the penny puncher in the speaker's lounge last night, storing it in the closet at the Capital One booth tonight. Gently seeding the idea for #BackTheStack (#1057) and also plugging Sustain (#920). @calvinhp and @clone1018 are still out, I'm turning in early so I can work in the morning. Day seven tomorrow! 🌞 |
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Seventh day! ... was a lot of parking :). The day was a rush from the moment I looked at my phone at 7:30AM to realize @whit537 scheduled our breakfast with Salesforce for 8:30AM instead of 9:30AM, oops. We did have any phone numbers for them but thankfully they check their emails :). We got that sorted out and headed out to Forthright. Just in case you're in Austin and want to check them out, they're attached to the side of the Four Seasons near Brazos... NOT on the water like we thought :)
We finally found Forthright and had some coffee while @calvinhp interviewed Chad about his story. Lots of python. Salesforce showed up on the dot, we got some breakfast and chatted about open source inside of Salesforce. The subject moved to funding open source (as it does) and our BackTheStack idea was met mildly. Everyone ended up walking to the convention center (I had to go run payday). Later when I met up with Chad he mentioned I missed the magical moment at the end of the conversation. Somehow the topic of developers within a company choosing the projects that would receive funding immediately lit up everyone's brains. It makes sense, right from the beginning John Resig has been trying to develop this feature for us. @whit537 will hammer out more of this idea later in a separate issue. The middle of the day consisted of the hallway track. @calvinhp was interviewed by Microsoft. We chatted with OpenCollective & Zulip at the Open Source Alley
We ended the convention by helping Ed from Open Sourcing Mental Illness and the Software Freedom Conservancy pack their booths up. Learned that convention packing is very hectic. From the second we started packing the booth all the curtains came down and carpet was being rolled up. We ended the night with some folks from GitHub at a cocktail place called "Half Step" and I talked a lot 😰 |
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=/ I can't solve the captcha through web proxy. Can you tell the about the problem? We have bats too! |
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It's a site about bat conservation...
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We also had coffee with a VC. Both he and the OC crew admired us for our persistence. |
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So, funny story ... I approached Jono Bacon in private email asking for a favor, help with an invite to #930. But my email was so poorly worded that he thought I was offering to help with the Community Leadership Summit that he runs ahead of OSCON. So here we are! It's about time I went to OSCON, anyway. :-)
CLS: May 6-7
OSCON: May 8-11
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