Rudy R Christian wrote:

I waited to reply until other folks had lest someone was more eloquent than I, which is the normal situation.

Do not undercut yourself any more than we all undercut ourselves. Be eloquent.

My thoughts run to whether you have giving much thought to turning the conferences upside down?

WTF for?

Actually when the sessions start and finish has become moot for the most part.

I disagree... timing is everything. One thing we have learned from BP is you cannot have useful unstructure without structure as in underlying rules. Form follows function? Or, form follows fund shway?

We have demonstrators who do their best to bring their work with them so people can interact with what they are doing. There’s a lot of wondering and the educational part of the process becomes very much focused. People who have a real interest stay for the demonstration and those that don’t move on.

A 'conference' needs a catalyst. It is play and tell at PTN.

I realize this has very little to do with what you expressed, but it is about people gathering together to learn. Ken refers to it as the gathering of the tribes.
Not me, that was some asshole that said that and I thought it was Laguluvin and repeated it w/ some VI dream I cld make it pure.

I guess I haven’t said much that can fix your problem,

Actually, if we stop to look at the problem, which is the transmission of pertinent knowledge, then you have answered. People tend to learn by their edges, meaning that it is when the one guy that keeps talking past the boundary of where anyone normal should be able to talk that suddenly there is something learned. As in, gosh, We can do that? Yes.

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