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Last year in my closing remarks at refactor camp, I said 2019 should probably be the last one in that format and it should either be shut down or reimagined in a creative new way as a distributed virtual conference given climate change etc. Now more reasons: viruses etc.
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I think this is going to turn into an endemic reason to not do larger events by default, unless there are very good reasons. It's not just a transient impact during covid-19 startup bootstrap as the Fifth Endemic.
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The long 25 year of premium mediocre conferences that started with the rise of PowerPoint is drawing to a close. I think we're going to see a trend towards distributed (networked-local) conferences with each node at no more than 12-30 individuals.
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We pilot-tested a virtual version of refactor camp in 2016 on Zoom. Here's Zoom's stock hitting ATHs btw, driven by Covid-19 presumably.
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If anyone wants to take another stab at organizing this for 2020, in an online > offline distributed format, I'm open to doing the same support-and-sponsor role I've been playing since 2014.
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