I’m not sure what to blame that on. Were the talks less appealing?
I was super excited about the first one based on the talk briefs, bought a ticket, and really enjoyed participating in the Matrix discussion even for several days after the conference.
This time around, I wasn’t as interested in the talks because there was much less database-y stuff. I am rubbing database on stuff at my day job full time, and right now working with some of the speakers & technology I met at the first HYTRADBOI conference. I still intended to get a ticket to hang out in chat, but never got around to it since I wasn’t super motivated and I had a handful of important meetings I couldn’t skip.
Regardless thanks for putting both of these on! I do hope you do another one - although I wouldn’t ask you to do it since I don’t think i have the rights.
I was pretty sick and the timezone made it an evening program for me so I didn’t really get to attend but I agree that the online conference is an interesting coordination problem. Given the different approaches going of which none really has stuck, the question is whether it’s solvable or worth solving.
I think from your report, doing something is a lot more sustainable if you get enough out of it for yourself. That doesn’t have to be all material stuff but you should come out positive.
Zulip has a free tier where you’re on your own and several monthly-fee-per-user tiers that offer support. I wasn’t sure how many attendees would pay less than the zulip fee for their tickets, so I contacted zulip and we agreed to just pay $1000 flat fee for support.
Paying $1k to have rapid-response support from Zulip for a live conference sounds pretty reasonable.
Fwiw if I was running a non-profit conference I would have just done it on the free tier and it probably would have been fine. I just felt that if I’m charging money for tickets then I should also be paying for the platform.
Thanks for organizing this event! It was a good use of time – the talks were interesting and well paced
I’d personally be biased toward more “experience reports” than “new ideas”, but I think it’s a good format, and maybe others can take some cues for a variety of events in the same format
I wouldn’t have minded some more organized discussion afterward, although I don’t have any ideas on how to make that happen
I’m also glad Zulip worked out, since TBH if it was on Slack or Discord I may not have joined :)
I wouldn’t have minded some more organized discussion afterward, although I don’t have any ideas on how to make that happen
Yeah, it’s a weird common knowledge problem. There could have been a big discussion the day afterwards if everyone believed there was going to be one. I have thought about spreading the talks out more to give the discussion more room to breathe. Maybe one block per evening or similar.
For those who don’t know, in the German language, all nouns are capitalized.
I am normally annoyed by bugs, but this bug is strangely… impressive.
I am genuinely curious to see if it is consistent behaviour for the speech-to-text system at play.
Unfortunately, I could not find any details on what model is backing descript.
Just the idea of this type of conference is so good.
Congrats on running and I look forward to watching the talks.
Thanks
I was super excited about the first one based on the talk briefs, bought a ticket, and really enjoyed participating in the Matrix discussion even for several days after the conference.
This time around, I wasn’t as interested in the talks because there was much less database-y stuff. I am rubbing database on stuff at my day job full time, and right now working with some of the speakers & technology I met at the first HYTRADBOI conference. I still intended to get a ticket to hang out in chat, but never got around to it since I wasn’t super motivated and I had a handful of important meetings I couldn’t skip.
Regardless thanks for putting both of these on! I do hope you do another one - although I wouldn’t ask you to do it since I don’t think i have the rights.
Sad to see the conclusion of “I’m not sure if I’ll do another.”. This was an amazing event to attend.
I was pretty sick and the timezone made it an evening program for me so I didn’t really get to attend but I agree that the online conference is an interesting coordination problem. Given the different approaches going of which none really has stuck, the question is whether it’s solvable or worth solving.
I think from your report, doing something is a lot more sustainable if you get enough out of it for yourself. That doesn’t have to be all material stuff but you should come out positive.
@jamii is that a typo??? How was Zulip so expensive?!
They add details further down:
Paying $1k to have rapid-response support from Zulip for a live conference sounds pretty reasonable.
Fwiw if I was running a non-profit conference I would have just done it on the free tier and it probably would have been fine. I just felt that if I’m charging money for tickets then I should also be paying for the platform.
Thanks for organizing this event! It was a good use of time – the talks were interesting and well paced
I’d personally be biased toward more “experience reports” than “new ideas”, but I think it’s a good format, and maybe others can take some cues for a variety of events in the same format
I wouldn’t have minded some more organized discussion afterward, although I don’t have any ideas on how to make that happen
I’m also glad Zulip worked out, since TBH if it was on Slack or Discord I may not have joined :)
Yeah, it’s a weird common knowledge problem. There could have been a big discussion the day afterwards if everyone believed there was going to be one. I have thought about spreading the talks out more to give the discussion more room to breathe. Maybe one block per evening or similar.