Notices by Christopher Neugebauer (chrisjrn@social.coop)

@skinnylatte
How do you make it followers only?

"play is only play if it's self directed" has just set off a lot of lightbulbs about my school's mandatory sports program 🤔

#PyConUS

Really feeling for Amanda from @whitecoatcaptioning, our wonderful captioner, who has to type out all of these variations of "enshit-" in the middle of this breathless talk from @pluralistic. AMAZING JOB.

#PyConUS.

@skinnylatte eh, different things are smelly to different people 🤷

@glyph let's be clear, this is not a viability question. We broke even on tickets and sponsorships, but we didn't increase our reserve. We're doing this because we don't reach the audience we want – the young and impressionable, and people who are shut out of other tech events by not focusing on access. Is it worth us trying very hard to make a special event if only the chosen few get to attend? Probably not.

@amethyst north

@amethyst I was unsurprised that so many people wanted to go NORTH.

@amethyst because west bay python isn't a thing

north

@bshaurette @amethyst I'm sure @skinnylatte has access to a boat we could use

@skinnylatte I read in this [0] interview with Stephen Colbert that learning to get actually good as a performer meant learning to "love the bomb" – i.e. realising that you _need_ to have bad experiences to learn to stop fearing having a bad experience.

I learned a lot from that.

[0] https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story

@skinnylatte (also one of my favourite interviews on grief, and perfectionism, and quite a lot of things that I learned a lot about)

A slide from my #NBPy closing. Running a community conference for cheap is a difficult slog. Our cheaper tickets are offered as close to the margin as we can possibly afford. Unless something changes on the sponsor/donation side, this is going to be difficult to catch up.

What's on our nice-to-have list? Childcare. Financial aid. Better transport options to the ranch from Petaluma and further afield. Student outreach.

All things that have far longer lead times than when our money comes in.

I have some solutions in mind, but I wish it weren't quite so much. #NBPy

Aside: https://nbpy.link/donate

Today's excellent news is that after my call to action to donate to #NBPy during the weekend, we received $600 in donations, in addition to $150 received earlier in the year.

That means we exceeded 2024's income. Hooray! Not everything is terrible!

(Also, you can donate too, at https://nbpy.link/donate)

And our opening talk from #NBPy from @skinnylatte was exactly the talk we needed to open the conference – showing the intersection between joy and fulfilling work in tech exists, and actually needs our help. It was an absolute delight to have Adrianna in Petaluma, hope we see her on our stage again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9gGYZ9G_d4

This talk from @joelle is the best talk on neurodivergence I've seen -- it's not going out of its way to convince, but to explain and to share experience. Seek out the video tomorrow. #NBPy

And here is the video of @joelle's talk – hands-down the best talk on neurodivergence in the workplace I've seen, and a highlight of #NBPy for this year.

https://youtu.be/5VZTdZhE94o

Thanks again, Joelle! It was a delight to have you!

@jacob especially when the creative work in question is still in copyright and paying royalties and/or licensing fees to the author.

@glyph @jacob when "death of the author" is a preference and not a critical framework