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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 00:17:30 JST Evan Prodromou

   speaking at conferences is an important part of commercial and nonprofit tech. i havent seen a platform to make it easier - discovering events, schedules, managing calls for talk, discovering speakers. does something like this exist?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 00:53:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Simon Willison
     • Mallory Knodel
     • Tom Coates
     • thisisaaronland

     @thisisaaronland @simon ha good point

     honestly i just want to see which events @tomcoates @mallory and I should be going to in the next 12 months.

     it's always a mix of being part of the conversation in communities you already engage in, and spreading the word to new audiences.

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     thisisaaronland (thisisaaronland@orthis.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 00:53:17 JST thisisaaronland

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     • Simon Willison

     @evan paging @simon to the courtesy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyrd conference phone

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     Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 04:33:30 JST Jonathan Corbet

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     • LWN.net
     @evan We (LWN - @LWN) maintain an events calendar at https://lwn.net/Calendar/, with an associated call-for-proposals calendar at https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/ . We're focused on the Linux and free-software worlds, but try to be fairly comprehensive within it.
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 10:47:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Ward Cunningham

     @k9ox thank you Ward!

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     Ward Cunningham (k9ox@mastodon.radio)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 10:47:41 JST Ward Cunningham

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     @evan

     Federated Wiki exists because Evan came and talked about the inevitability of federation at an event in Portland, Oregon. Thank you Evan.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 22:00:45 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • James Bartlett :terminal:

     @JamesDBartlett3 yes!

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     James Bartlett :terminal: (jamesdbartlett3@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 22:00:46 JST James Bartlett :terminal:

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     @evan
     Something like #Sessionize?
     https://sessionize.com

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 03:57:57 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nemo_bis 🌈
     • pretalx

     @pretalx @nemobis can I interest you in the topic of federation? 😉

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     pretalx (pretalx@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 03:58:06 JST pretalx

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     • Nemo_bis 🌈

     @nemobis @evan Yup – pretalx is doing the CfP and scheduling part (including reviewing, speaker comms, and generally everything that would be a pain to do in a spreadsheet).

     We're not really doing discoverability, because pretalx can be self-hosted, so there are hundreds of instances around. Because there are so many platforms, and that's surely a good thing!, having the schedule and the discoverability be discrete things is probably a good thing tbh.

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 03:58:08 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     • pretalx

     @evan #Pretalx is going in that direction.
     https://pretalx.com/p/news/releasing-pretalx-2024-1-0/

     @pretalx

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:47:00 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • pretalx

     @pretalx you can interest me in that! A quick Web search will find a lot of my work. I also have a book coming out from O'Reilly Media about ActivityPub, including a section on events:

     https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/activitypub/9781098162733/

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     pretalx (pretalx@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:47:02 JST pretalx

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     @evan can I interest you int he topic of contributing to open source software? 😉

     For real though: federation is hugely complex to build well and in a way that degrades gracefully and is intuitive to the user. Taking all that on, as a solo developer, while also building out pretalx, would probably do the project a disservice.

     Pretalx *does* have a plugin API though, so a federation plugin would be totally possible!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 07:48:01 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • pretalx

     @pretalx if you're really thinking about connecting installations, you could do worse than using AP. Let me know if you're interested and I can help.