How we built a two-track schedule from 412 proposals
Blind review, two rounds, a column called who_else, and why the best talks were about something that broke.
Dispatches
Notes from the organizers and previews from the speakers. One a week until May, then one each morning of the event.
Latest dispatch
The 3 a.m. pager for small communities
Sun-hee Park previews her Tend talk: one rota, one runbook, one rule about who speaks for the group.
One forum, 41 languages
Tomasz Wierzba on translation queues, right-to-left layouts and the volunteers who review every string.
Rope Hall reopens with 600 seats
The rebuild added two lifts, a hearing loop and a floor that doesn't creak. We walked it with a tape measure.
Where the 2026 money went
The meetup year in numbers: $21,400 to speakers, $9,800 to captioners and $612 on coffee.