[HN Gopher] Why start a new database conference? ___________________________________________________________________ Why start a new database conference? Author : luu Score : 56 points Date : 2021-12-17 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.scattered-thoughts.net) (TXT) w3m dump (www.scattered-thoughts.net) | cmontella wrote: | Sounds like Jamie is starting a conference that would be a good | venue for Eves. I think the ethos of Eve was really about rubbing | databases on everything and seeing what happened. | | This conference really seems to be a future of programming | conference moreso than a databases conference. Maybe I'll submit | something! Good luck! | vosper wrote: | Do you mean this Eve [0] previously seen on HN [1]? I'm trying | to figure out what you meant :) | | [0] http://witheve.com/ | | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817468 | cmontella wrote: | Yes that's the one! It was Chris Granger's project that Jamie | worked on for a while (along with Josh Rob and Eric and | myself). Eve came around at a time when Bret Victor's videos | were very popular and a lot of people were unhappy with the | state of the web and programming in general. | | Since then there's been a pretty relentless if niche | community growing around the idea. Eve is gone but the idea | lives on in many different communities, and I think it's | clear the same spirit that spawned Eve motivates Jamie's | conference. | | The primary venue for this kind of work has been the Live! | workshop at SplashCon. | | https://liveprog.org/ | | There's also a community of people working on projects of | this sort: | | https://futureofcoding.org/ | | I think Jamie's conference would be a good addition to this | community, especially since it's in the spring, since Live is | in the fall. | mathgladiator wrote: | I just signed up with http://www.adama-lang.org/ | code_biologist wrote: | For those who are interested in data from the analytics side, | I'll note that DBT's Coalesce conference [1] just concluded. | Their site has full videos and transcripts! | | [1] https://coalesce.getdbt.com/ | | [2] https://www.getdbt.com/coalesce-2021/ | idealmedtech wrote: | Situation: there are 15 competing database conferences. | cpach wrote: | Doesn't really seem like a problem to me. | codetrotter wrote: | It's a reference to the xkcd comic about standards. | https://xkcd.com/927/ | | But I agree with you, more conferences is nice. More | opportunities for sharing knowledge and making connections | with more people. | avgcorrection wrote: | > But I agree with you, more conferences is nice. More | opportunities for sharing knowledge and making connections | with more people. | | So you're saying that 927 wasn't relevant at all. | | (Par for the course with 927 references anyway.) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-17 23:00 UTC)