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Speaker A
0:00
Chris?
0:02
Hey, ADHD Jesse.
0:15
Yeah, yeah, we've called each other a couple different things, but yeah, nice to This is awesome.
Speaker C
0:29
Good.
Speaker A
0:29
Did you bring up the last year?
0:33
I felt like a sherbet on the last weekend.
0:36
Yeah, I looked at the office right next to it and I missed it.
0:40
I'm like, I gotta go this year.
0:43
So, yeah, it's been great.
0:46
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:48
Yeah, so I have an iOS client right now.
0:57
Yeah, yeah.
0:58
So I kind of like miss the old days of Twitter when like there was 2D, 3D, and all these different apps kind of competing.
1:05
So I'm like, I'm gonna control my app, the ring, and boost it.
1:09
And this guy is basically, uh, up for fun.
Speaker D
2:17
All the late night conversations, way too many hesitations.
2:22
Feel the doubt, I feel the doubt.
2:25
And the memories I've been saving, but the good ones, they're all fading, fading out.
2:32
They're fading out.
2:34
I hear you calling out my name.
2:38
Oh, we can't go back, and that's a shame.
2:42
Wish I could tell you there's no blame.
2:46
Wish I could tell you I still feel the same.
2:50
I want you to know that it was never in vain.
Speaker B
3:02
And that's the last thing that you'll hear me say.
Speaker D
3:48
We can't go back in time.
3:52
Wish I could tell you there's no one to blame.
3:57
Wish I could tell you I still feel the same.
Speaker B
4:00
I want you to know that it was never in vain.
4:09
That's the last thing that you'll hear, you'll hear me say.
Speaker C
6:28
Bear, bear, bear.
Speaker D
6:36
You're getting it, you're getting it.
Speaker B
7:26
It's nice to go back.
Speaker A
7:48
I only know from the internet.
Speaker C
8:00
Good evening, everyone.
8:02
If you've still got folks in the hall, can you ask them to come in?
Speaker B
8:06
What's that?
Speaker C
8:26
Uh, you can now follow my coat at coat.bman.ca.
8:33
I think this is the first coat with a DID.
8:36
Um, yeah.
8:46
Amazing.
8:49
We've made it.
8:50
We're at various points on mental and emotional roller coasters and sleep levels and energy.
9:01
Awesome.
9:03
So I'm actually going to do this the other way around.
9:07
One more thing.
9:10
We're adding a 5th day.
9:11
You all have to come back tomorrow.
9:16
No, no, no, we're not doing that.
9:23
But if you want to change your flights and hang out with Anuj, you can do that.
9:26
That's totally fine.
9:34
So let's, let's talk through what we did here.
9:39
350+ in person, so we definitely sold out kind of multiple times.
9:46
That was a catering max, basically.
9:48
Awesome.
9:53
And thank you all who are watching from your homes in various time zones elsewhere.
9:59
557 remote.
10:00
Thank you so much.
10:06
Especially to Patrick, who's always out there on the skyline and helping out with a lot of the chat and remotes and other stuff like that, along with Erlend and Rumi and the team there.
10:15
Thank you, Patrick.
10:16
We wish you were here.
10:24
So one of the things that we did last year is we showed a bunch of numbers and basically showed how ticket sales in Seattle, like, accounted for, like, a big chunk.
10:34
So once again, so you all at home, remotely, in person, basically paid for tickets and t-shirts $47,000.
10:47
Thank you so much.
10:50
So, and the takeaway here is the community directly funded at the same level as our largest sponsors.
11:03
We'll do a wrap-up post with more details.
11:10
Everything is transparently in Open Collective.
11:12
Various things may lag with receipts and final bills.
11:16
Me figuring out which of the Jägermeister shots I have to take off the bill from the after-party.
11:25
And we'll be shipping out t-shirts probably next week.
11:29
So that's gonna be super fun as people get them around the world as well.
Speaker B
11:33
Right?
Speaker C
11:34
Awesome.
11:37
Maybe a weird segue slide, but this is how we're gonna do it.
11:41
There's more stuff happening.
11:42
That we already know is happening that is at Proto adjacent for the rest of the year.
11:48
So Web Summit is coming to Vancouver in May.
11:51
That's something that's here in Vancouver for— that has about 20,000 or 30,000 people.
11:55
Jay spoke last year.
11:57
Jay's talk was one of the most popular talks.
12:01
I did a small meetup.
12:02
We'll do a meetup again this year.
12:03
I think Wesley is going to demo Sembol.
12:07
And Avery Penaroon from Tailscale is going to be in town.
12:12
And so he's going to present his at login work where you can You can use an App Proto account to plug into any access with Tailscale, which is super, super cool.
12:21
So excited about that.
12:23
The folks at New Public are partnering with Public Spaces, and that's coming up in June, including the Open Social Awards.
12:31
So like teams, apply for that.
12:35
We'll see what else we do along with that.
12:38
I'm helping organize Local First Conf in Berlin.
12:42
I know there's a desire to have App Proto content there.
12:46
Uh, so submit, uh, to that CFP that's open now.
12:50
Um, and it's actually right adjacent to DWebCamp.
12:53
I know— David, are you here?
12:56
David, you're, you're going to, to DWebCamp, right?
12:59
Amazing.
12:59
Anyone else already committed to DWebCamp in Berlin?
13:03
A few more hands.
13:04
Amazing, right?
13:05
So, uh, minimum, uh, and then there's also DWebCamp Cascadia.
13:10
What are the dates on that?
13:13
July 30th to August 3rd.
13:15
Okay, so already our list is getting bigger.
13:18
Um, we need to— I pulled this from the, the, uh, community forum, uh, and we'll send out the link because not everyone here is— how many people in the room have logged into the community forum at least once?
13:31
Maybe half, something like that?
13:33
So we'll, we'll, we'll share that as well.
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Um, so we're Okay.
13:39
Who in this room already has a named regional meetup that they organize?
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Can you stand up?
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Put your hands up?
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Look around the room.
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Amazing.
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Stay standing.
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Stay standing.
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Stay standing.
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Who, because of this event, is going back to their home region and going to start organizing?
14:06
Awesome.
14:08
Awesome.
14:09
Fantastic.
14:11
Yeah, exactly.
14:12
This is going to be a fun year.
14:15
You can sit down now.
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Or stay up.
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It's all good.
14:19
And so at SCIENCE, let's just— a round of applause for having over 100 people.
14:31
So, you know, excited to see how that kind of sub-community, community of interest grows.
14:37
What's next?
14:39
You know, I think Trezzy coming up and talking about gaming, there's a whole cluster of shared interests there that might be interesting.
14:45
So just think about that as well.
14:47
We can turn ourselves inside out in interesting ways.
14:49
Are you part of various affinities?
14:51
I guess actually Miss Boba is determined to make all of fandom @protoized.
15:00
There's a thread on this in the forum.
15:06
Dietrich— is Dietrich still in the room?
15:13
Okay, see you later, Dietrich.
15:16
You ran an incredible tech speakers program that instead of having to work for a big company, that paid you to fly around.
15:26
It was basically a program to take people from the community and give them opportunities to speak.
15:30
So I already know that there are other communities that want to hear from us.
15:36
So Aura Dev, which is a big tech conference, the, the head of the architecture track was like, hey, anybody out there want to come to Aura Dev and speak about Aperture architecture?
15:48
So how can we work together to share those opportunities and help basically community members get comfortable speaking on much larger stages than this and supported in travel expenses for stuff like that.
16:02
I'm putting question marks.
16:03
This is not Boris signing up for infinite things.
16:07
This is we can just do things, dot, dot, dot, if we decide to work together on some of these things, right?
16:15
Makes sense.
16:18
Community features for the website.
16:22
I think this is semi-public, but basically Streamplace is going to have a video-on-demand hosting service.
16:31
Like, obviously we're coming for you, YouTube.
16:41
And so the first piece of that will be— we'll publish the videos on Protocol, we'll put them on the website, they'll be embedded right on the speaker pages for those sorts of things.
16:51
So the website will be just this incredible resource.
16:55
Lots more ideas.
16:56
These again have question marks next to them because, like, let's see who wants to continue that community project.
17:02
Thank you so, so much, Miss Boba, for wrangling and doing all of that.
17:06
That's been amazing.
17:13
I literally was adding things to this where it's like "Could we use it as an example site for working on internationalization and translation?" I'm like, "Yes, let's put it on the list." So this is where we're doing the thank-yous.
17:28
I mentioned these folks before, you have them as a giant list here.
17:32
The conference producers: Luca, Rachel, and Iva.
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Over 40 volunteers helped us out over this time.
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Thank you so much for all of those folks.
17:49
I did not finish writing the line about Miss Boba, Flowbit, Grishaw.
17:55
Tons of people put awesome work into the website, and I really appreciate all that work, and we're going to continue that momentum of doing cool, more, more community stuff.
18:04
Jim Ray and Chad helped out with emceeing.
18:06
Again, Patrick, Erlin, Brumi, and the remote team.
18:10
Graphic design, all this stuff other than the custom goose illustration, put together by Heather at Rogue Wave Design.
18:16
She messaged me earlier, she's currently attending CouchConf and enjoying that, so thank you, Heather, very much for that.
18:29
The 3 co-organizers, myself, Nick, and Ted, thank you very much.
18:39
We put several years on Ted's life with the schedule wrangling You know, I think there's a discussion to be had about this was fun, this was intense.
18:50
I wanted to say one of the reasons we did this, we packed so much in, is because we wanted to capture great videos of everything that people had to share, which we can then publish and hundreds to thousands of more people will experience.
19:05
At the same time, let's breathe, get to know each other, have a few more breaks, and we'll figure out how that goes over time and let more grass grow as our NPMX folks are teaching us to do.
19:17
So, thank you.
19:24
Was the food pretty good?
19:26
Great.
19:28
Thank you very much to the AMS Nest facilities and catering team.
19:32
Went really fantastically.
19:33
They helped us out with all sorts of things and were quick to fix anything that was an issue.
19:38
Really appreciate the venue and what happened here.
19:42
Our sponsors, Um, again, uh, this is quite a lot to put on.
19:47
Um, I'm really looking forward to sharing kind of the full transparency report.
19:52
Um, we paid for a lot of people to, uh, come and stay.
19:56
We really appreciate your time that you put in to take time out of your life.
20:01
Your time is valuable.
20:03
All the people who prepared talks, even if they were the night before, we see you, thank you.
20:09
Um, and we came together and, uh, had a pretty amazing time and that was supported by Blue Skies, our title sponsor, sponsor.
20:16
Streamplace, 3 streams, amazing, and now a VOD service.
20:21
Gray said yes first.
20:23
Cosmic said yes first, and then put on an entire at SCIENCE track.
20:28
New Public specifically supported European travel, so many of you who came from Europe came because New Public specifically said, let's make sure people come to North America.
20:40
Cloudflare was Yes, you should have an awesome time at the after-party, and we want to support your growing community.
20:47
Google, Skyseed, Expo, Modal Foundation, Protocol Labs, IPFS, Fedeka, Year Two.
20:56
Sameer, I want you in that community sponsor slot every single year from now on.
21:14
Okay, yeah, he wants some friends at the bottom.
21:17
So you're on notice.
21:21
I can't even believe I'm going to show this next slide.
21:38
This slide does have question marks on it, okay?
21:43
We are a small community.
21:45
We are growing rapidly.
21:49
Growth isn't everything, right?
21:51
And I think what a lot of people said is cross-disciplinary, joy, fun, support, care, right?
22:01
And, and that's gonna be very attractive to a lot of people.
22:05
We're looking for people to work together with.
22:09
There will be more regional meetups.
22:11
I think I saw 30 people standing up or something like that in maybe 20 locations.
22:17
Wow.
22:18
That'll keep happening.
22:20
I think it's important to gather together, all together, once a year to share, to learn, to build, to eat, and hug.
22:33
It seems like a good thing.
22:36
So let's see what we do with 2027.
22:38
I think we should rotate locations and continents.
22:41
It's worked for other communities.
22:43
I think that makes sense.
22:44
We will need on-the-ground volunteers.
22:47
There was a whole thread where I said, haha, Europe 2027, and people are like, okay, and started volunteering.
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So we need funding for paid positions.
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Probably there need to be 3 to 5 paid positions of conference producers if we grow again in, in size.
23:12
And maybe we've actually outgrown a fiscal host.
23:18
Other communities have ended up with essentially conference entities.
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Where should that conference entity We live not in the US, you know.
23:30
And we'll make a call for participations.
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We'll do some debrief.
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We'll breathe a little bit.
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And then in May, we'll get started.
23:49
I say that we in the like that doesn't mean it is me, we.
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It could be you, we.
23:56
So yeah, that's it.
24:00
Thank you so much for your time and your care.
24:05
Thank you for being with us on up to 4 days, and it was just an absolute pleasure hosting everyone here.
24:17
In my hometown, and I look forward to continued excited chatter on the skyline in the next couple of weeks and going on.
24:28
And we come to a close.
24:29
Thank you very much.
Speaker B
24:48
Congratulations.
24:54
Thank you, everyone.