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Matthew Millerreplied to Duck Alignment Academy last edited by
It's not a matter of interest
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It doesn't expand access, but it also shouldn't be the only thing. There's something irreplaceable about being present in a room with people who are with shared interest. Especially when the topic is contentious, or otherwise difficult.
Being in a shared audience is also a key driver of the hallway tracks and networking. You mention that separately but I think it's linked. Maybe could be done by following each talk and q&a with breakouts, but that feels like a commitment.
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Matthew Millerreplied to Matthew Miller last edited by
And, it isn't really a matter of "interesting". I learn from talks, but if it's a video it needs to be... something different from a talk. Like, I can watch Mark Rober or Simone Giertz or Tom Scott videos and learn something, but I probably wouldn't as much from a video of them at a lectern with slides, or a conference call slideshow and recording.
This is probably a neurotype thing, but I bet it is common enough in our communities.
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Matthew Millerreplied to Matthew Miller last edited by
Maybe it could be a blog post, but few people are good at making those both substantive and succinct. (This is why so many companies end up using never-presented slide decks as a primary communication mechanism. I'm not _recommending_ that, but I understand it.)
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Matthew Millerreplied to Matthew Miller last edited by
I don't have a good answer on expanding access. Travel is hard, the world is big, national borders are barriers, and, yeah, covid is still a thing. But regionalizing _core_ events isn't the answer — especially if US or EU (or wherever) becomes the defacto _main event_. This is what happened in Fedora before Flock, and it was actively harmful.
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Ben Cotton (he/him)replied to Matthew Miller last edited by
@mattdm I'm going to suggest you write your own blog post to rebut mine instead of doing it in the comments.
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Matthew Millerreplied to Matthew Miller last edited by
We should do more regional events — the day-trip idea. But those should be explicitly something else and should not disqualify people from the core gathering.
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Matthew Millerreplied to Ben Cotton (he/him) last edited by
*sigh*
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Matthew Millerreplied to Ben Cotton (he/him) last edited by
Can I make you a PowerPoint?
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Ben Cotton (he/him)replied to Matthew Miller last edited by
@mattdm with apologies to Taylor Swift:
We can't make
Any blog posts now, can we, babe?
But you can make me a PowerPoint