Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2014-07-13 08:25 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2014-07-13 08:25 pm
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Post-OSB: What I Did On Vacation, by Azure Jane Lunatic, Age Old Enough To Drive By Myself
Before Dreamwidth had a website, it had a user group. Before Dreamwidth had a user group, it had a Diversity Statement. So misskat and I talked about parts of the process of watching the user group start from the concept of Hypothetical Journal and the Diversity Statement and the things we learned from that. It was great fun! I had stage fright, my computer kind of died a little, and I'm already planning the changes I'm going to make to the talk based on what I learned from giving it.
I was surprised by one thing I learned at Open Source Bridge. The open source world, or at least the bits of it attending Open Source Bridge, has a lot of people at a 101 level for community organization and culture. In addition to a world-class performance engineer (![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
mark) and fu and karzilla and all the other lovely devs, Dreamwidth has people working on making the development community and other official areas pleasant and productive places to be.
Also, quotes databases aren't as well known as they might be, and #dreamwidth IRC's quotes database is one of the best (in my opinion, at least).
Other things I learned:
misskat and I got on famously in person. One surefire way to make your travel group laugh is to run slow-motion across the hotel restaurant lobby to embrace each other as violins play in the background. Or maybe it was dubstep. Nobody's quite sure.
Editing your presentation at the last minute is a time-honored conference hobby, but it helps if your laptop doesn't develop a weird probably-hardware problem which crashes Powerpoint five times in fifteen minutes.
Having at least one car at the conference makes a lot of things go more smoothly, including the spur of the moment laptop and soda run to Costco. (They didn't have diet coke with lime. In retrospect, maybe I should have found a bag of limes.)
Shortbread is more delicious when it's CAPTAIN AMERICA shortbread.
I need, NEED, a badge-maker of my own. As it is, my infamous hat may collapse from the number of buttons I'm going to put on it.
Ondenise and her wife, BPAL Hatta smells like spice and a comfortable leather jacket. On me? Doing the cinnamon challenge in Uncle Sketchy Galore's man-cave. Body chemistry, y0!
And last but certainly not least -- meeting up with Dreamwidth people in person is an amazing bonding experience, and I want to do it again. Next year in Portland! *raises a glass* and ... TO THE ROLEPLAYERS!
misskat and I talked about parts of the process of watching the user group start from the concept of Hypothetical Journal and the Diversity Statement and the things we learned from that. It was great fun! I had stage fright, my computer kind of died a little, and I'm already planning the changes I'm going to make to the talk based on what I learned from giving it. I was surprised by one thing I learned at Open Source Bridge. The open source world, or at least the bits of it attending Open Source Bridge, has a lot of people at a 101 level for community organization and culture. In addition to a world-class performance engineer (
mark) and fu and karzilla and all the other lovely devs, Dreamwidth has people working on making the development community and other official areas pleasant and productive places to be. Also, quotes databases aren't as well known as they might be, and #dreamwidth IRC's quotes database is one of the best (in my opinion, at least).
Other things I learned:
misskat and I got on famously in person. One surefire way to make your travel group laugh is to run slow-motion across the hotel restaurant lobby to embrace each other as violins play in the background. Or maybe it was dubstep. Nobody's quite sure. Editing your presentation at the last minute is a time-honored conference hobby, but it helps if your laptop doesn't develop a weird probably-hardware problem which crashes Powerpoint five times in fifteen minutes.
Having at least one car at the conference makes a lot of things go more smoothly, including the spur of the moment laptop and soda run to Costco. (They didn't have diet coke with lime. In retrospect, maybe I should have found a bag of limes.)
Shortbread is more delicious when it's CAPTAIN AMERICA shortbread.
I need, NEED, a badge-maker of my own. As it is, my infamous hat may collapse from the number of buttons I'm going to put on it.
On
denise and her wife, BPAL Hatta smells like spice and a comfortable leather jacket. On me? Doing the cinnamon challenge in Uncle Sketchy Galore's man-cave. Body chemistry, y0! And last but certainly not least -- meeting up with Dreamwidth people in person is an amazing bonding experience, and I want to do it again. Next year in Portland! *raises a glass* and ... TO THE ROLEPLAYERS!