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How !!Con came to be!

on YouTube 10m
Talkat !!Con 2021 · 2021-05-15..05-22· [open-source]

speaker

name:Julia Evans
website:http://jvns.ca

resources

video:https://youtu.be/oXETIzCF4bc
slides:none on file

summary

Origin story traces to 2013 when colleagues invent a fake conference to get one attendee’s travel covered, then actually build it: a programming‑focused CFP that required an exclamation mark in the title, registration and a website at bangbangcon.com, later mistakenly registered as bangbangcorn.com, and incorporation as a volunteer-run LLC under exclamation.foundation. Organizing stays unpaid, revenues fund accessibility and grants, the event grows into year eight and helps seed similar “bang bang” style meetups.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 2:29Bang Bang Con origin
  3. 6:21From joke to conference
  4. 7:45Supporting Bang Bang Con

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