I'm running a conference with a lot of FoC adjacent talks: https://www.hytradboi.com/ Featuring talks by many of the folks here: @tonsky @Mary Rose Cook @Dustin Getz @Tom Larkworthy @Pete Vilter @Corey @J. Ryan Stinnett @Geoffrey Litt

I'm super stoked, this is going to be a lot of fun

This has been on my mind since it was announced, I'll be sure to get as involved as I can. I like the format too. I'm doing relevant research that won't be ready for the conference this time around, how might I get involved next time? What's the vibe here?

I think this puts it pretty well: Can we behave like idiots? We expect everyone to conduct themselves like the professionals you are. Also: be curious and constructive rather than cynical and dismissive, stay on topic and avoid digressions that are likely to start fights.

how might I get involved next time?

I have no idea 😄 I'm not 100% sure that there will be a next time, or if there is that it will be the same thing. I'm trying to cross-pollinate between groups that have similar ideas but are unlikely to run into each other, and I'll likely experiment with different ways of doing that. I didn't do as good a job as I was hoping of getting speakers from very different groups. Eg I had no luck finding anyone from fossil, or q, or from the weird bank-internal-software worlds.

What kinds of research communities are you hoping to attract? I may have some connections

Some projects on my todo list that I didn't get around to or didn't get a reply from: https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html https://shakti.com/ / https://code.kx.com/q/learn/ https://www.fossil-scm.org/ https://tiddlywiki.com/ https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/02/data-infrastructure/messenger/ https://matrix.org/docs/guides/implementing-stateres

So many great speakers I am so pumped and I very happy my diary is clear for the next 3 weeks so I can concentrate on the video! I think a month to shoot a video is, in general, a bit short. I wanted to start earlier but then I did not know if would be accepted so here we are. sidenote: I also have not ever been successful in guessing the acronym, I think the b is a problem :p

Huh, maybe I should have made the deadline for proposals finish earlier then.

Re: future event, I have a friend working on attempting to untangle NOAA Grib2 (https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/grib2/grib2_doc/) who I think has a similar outside perspective a la bank python

@Tom Larkworthy Yeah, but without the B I wouldn't be able to read it as "Hyper Traditional, Boi!"

With just a few days to go, I made this very professionally edited teaser trailer - https://www.hytradboi.com/