Thank You All

[mikeal]

I wrote up a blog post to thank everyone but I'll reproduce it here since my blog doesn't have comments and I'd like the rest of the world to be able to thank you all as well :)

Thank You All

This year's NodeConf was, by far, the greatest conference I've ever been a part of.

Last year I put everything I had into NodeConf and this year I did the same. I can only do so much and what brought this year to a higher level was that I asked more of the speakers and staff than any conference ever has.

In creating the format for this year I thought mainly about the experience of the attendees. Only after I had committed to splitting the crowd of 300 up into smaller (~40 person) hands-on sessions did I realize the toll it would take on those presenting. Nobody has ever asked more of their staff and speakers than NodeConf and they deserve all of the credit for making this year so amazing. And so, I'm going to call each of them out individually for some much needed recognition and thank them one at a time.

First of all, to my wife Anna Maier, who has spent her lunch breaks for months handling many of the logistics and payments including a grueling ordeal with the bus company. And my mother, Terry Helmka, for helping with the SO track and running craft workshops for the kids.

To John for capturing such a magical event.

To Emily Tanaka-Delgado for handling the attendee intake at Joyent and getting everyone on the buses.

To Alyssa Ravasio and Nicole Sullivan for helping with registration and cleanup.

To Paul Campbell, for his wonderful songs and glowing presence.

To @visnup and @dshaw who led the effort to keep people hydrated in the morning and de-hydrated with beers every evening, overcoming the dwindling resources of cargo van space and recycling receptacles.

To Jessica Lord for designing the map and tshirts.

Dan Finlay, Daniel Erickson and Hannah Boone who drove attendees into town during medical emergencies.

To Forrest Norvell and Domenic Denicola who taught more people domains in a single day than had ever understood them before.

To Emily Rose, Adam Ulvi and Ben Acker who flew, powered, and repaired drones all day and made it so accessible that even my mother and my wife (who have never written a line of code) were able to fly them with JavaScript.

To Rick Waldron, Elijah Insua, and Raquel Velez who opened people up to manipulating the physical world with node.

To Isaac Schlueter and Bert Belder who demystified core and created new committers.

To Max Bruning, TJ Fontaine, and Josh Clulow who made DTrace accessible.

To Eran Hammer and Mike Cantelon who, 8 times in a row, contrasted the differences in web frameworks without arguing with one another :)

To @raynos and Dominic Tarr who got peoples code talking to other peoples code in a distributed system they wrote in less than an hour.

To Max Ogden and @substack, who guided people along a stream adventure. And again to @substack, who was sick the whole conference but still ran all his sessions to the high praise and acclaim of all the attendees.

And finally, to Claudia, Jim, Michael and all the rest of the staff at Walker Creek Ranch for making this such a magical experience.

[alunny]

Thanks everyone for a fantastic nodeconf.

plus thanks @mikeal's brother for getting a bunch of drunk/hungover to geeks sit down and talk into his camera :)

[jergason]

Best conference I have ever attended, hands down.

[dstokes]

<3 can't wait for next yr

[max123]

Thanks for having me. Looking forward to the next.

http://www.joyent.com/blog/bruning-questions-last-week-at-nodeconf

max

On Jul 1, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Drew Stokes notifications@github.com wrote:

<3 can't wait for next yr

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[othiym23]

I've said this in a bunch of places, but I'll say it again here: super huge thanks to Domenic Denicola for being my co-presenter. We sorta figured out on the fly how to present this stuff, but his presence made the difference between a useful presentation of some kinda dry material and something that approached being smooth and professional and entertaining. Thanks, @domenic.

[junosuarez]

Thanks @mikeal for possibly the best conference, ever. <3 Very educational, tons of time for mad science and coding, nature hikes, star gazing, great booze, lovely people. A++, would attend again.

[paulca]

Peace and hearts. It was great to be there.

On Wednesday, July 3, 2013, Jason Denizac wrote:

Thanks @mikeal https://github.com/mikeal for possibly the best conference, ever. <3 Very educational, tons of time for mad science and coding, nature hikes, star gazing, great booze, lovely people. A++, would attend again.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/mikeal/nodeconf2013/issues/18#issuecomment-20389584 .

Paul Campbell paul@hypertiny.ie

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[nickleefly]

Will there be recorded videos? would be a great resource for people who wasn't able to be there.

[othiym23]

@nickleefly The only video will be a documentary-style set of interviews and events captured by Mikeal's brother. The sessions don't really make much sense on video, being interactive workshops.

[julianduque]

<3