Ben and Shane's Fireside Chat
summary
Origins story for the conference, plus operational details and honest failures: organizers budget a $30,000 venue, sign a room for 350 but end up with roughly 137 attendees, and rely on last-minute sponsor commitments to flip a red spreadsheet to black; they plan to move to Portland next year and target 150–200 people, pare the program, accept radical openness about finances, cope with an organizer stepping away, and pitch an “open source offsets” nonprofit idea that needs legal help.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Cascadia Ruby origin
- 5:21Organizing Cascadia Ruby
- 11:04Shane’s final year
- 18:03Future plans and offsets
- 23:17Community feedback
- 27:10Vancouver expansion
- 30:27Closing remarks
