# 2023-08-05 06:35:17.322066 UTC (+0000)

Brcon2023: Two days to go!

Brcon2023 will start on Monday 2023-08-07 and people are excited. This
year, we will try out new formats of interaction and productivity, thus
creating and giving people more practical experience from just visiting
brcon.

This includes our new hackathon concept, where per day there is a major
topic, with an expert introduction, a simple guidelines what could be
done during the hackathon and the experts being on IRC for you to help
live and instantly, in case your idea needs some technical or
philsophical help.

You can already see the evolving hackathons here:

	git://bitreich.org/1/brcon2023-hackathons

And you can win prizes too!

	gophers://bitreich.org/0/usr/20h/phlog/2023-07-08T17-07-10-942156.md

The schedule is evolving too. As it is known from previous brcons, the
excitement for the conference gets people's minds moving and with the
simple way on how to make your own talk, they get the instant idea of
presenting something.

	gophers://bitreich.org/1/con/2023

There is already one such talk proposed and scheduled:

	"Using Unix and Bitreich tools for preparing scientific papers."
	  -- by adc

A perfect fit for our planned the gopher times hackathon, where we will
require text processing to format beautiful outputs for the first
gopherspace newspaper readers! Thanks for sending in the proposal, adc.

There is at least one further applicant for a talk, so stand by in what
the community is able to produce and bring you further.

See you on Monday!

Sincerely yours,

20h
Chief Conference Officer (CCO)