[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)