---------------------------------------- Port 70 -or- 1436CON April 12th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- 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... (DIR) [0] sysdharma - Gophercon vs Gophercon (DIR) [1] tomasino - re sysdharma: Gophercon (DIR) [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: (DIR) [3] What should we name this gopher convention?