[livecode] Re: Future distributed ICLC?

From: Mauro <lavaramano_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:04:19 -0300

i agree with Sarah.
To me it feels like "yeah sure, you're invited to the party. you
celebrate at home but you're totally invited to the party."

probably Norah Lorway was talking about something else, but i've been
feeling like this about "the livecoding scene": same thing over and
over again.
"""
just because there is a code of conduct for your music/tech event
doesn't always = inclusive. stuff gets cliquey and gatekeeper-y very
fast, with the same people doing the same stuff. Just saying.
"""
https://twitter.com/norahlo/status/1115761385407954944

what i'm trying to say is: "the livecoding scene" feels european and
perhaps north-american, and that's it. sure, i could celebrate ICLC in
Arg, but why would i bother doing that when I could just simply do it
any day.
if you're thinking in making the conf accesible think about moving the
conf to other places outside the places mentioned above.
for example: Joanne's experience in BA
here's a twitter thread: https://twitter.com/joannnne/status/1115921660228636672

i'm not saying that this is an easy task or that you should move the
conf to BA, but consider that there are other places, and the people
will definitely show interest in the topic.

On 4/30/19, Sarah Groff-Palermo <sarah.groff.palermo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking at this from my geographic vantage, any place I go is going to be a
> long flight if it's not just going to be the same people I could see
> anyways. So I would rather have the most possible people when I get there.
> That seems like it will be the case for most of the Americas, really.
>
> At the same time, there are even fewer visualists that music-focused
> people, which means splitting up hurts us even more. It was so huge to in
> Spain to be able to really spend time with other visuals folks.
>
> I know this is just one perspective and I can see some of the points of
> competing ones, for sure, but personally, it would be a big and
> disappointing change.
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:37 PM Evan Raskob <evanraskob_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought that what David just wrote was the idea? No that people
>> couldn't
>> travel, but there would be more (maybe closer) places to travel to?
>>
>> There's always the risk of having too many hubs an splitting up he crowd
>> too much, but given how widespread the community is an how hard/expensive
>> it can be to travel halfway around the world it seems like there could be
>> a
>> few more local hubs?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:01 PM Ogborn, David <ogbornd_at_mcmaster.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps people still could travel to particular hubs though, if they
>>> want
>>> and are able? Even for those who want to get out of their local scene,
>>> they
>>> might then have a choice of where they would like to go for the
>>> conference.
>>>
>>> -D
>>>
>>> On Apr 30, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Sarah Groff-Palermo <
>>> sarah.groff.palermo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think preemptively deciding for people that they shouldn't
>>> travel
>>> is best for our community. It is a lot easier when you live in Europe
>>> than
>>> elsewhere to say "don't fly but you'll still meet people."
>>>
>>> Leaving aside all the arguments about whether individual action is even
>>> a
>>> plausible response to the crisis, I think letting people choose how they
>>> want to offset their travel is reasonable.
>>>
>>> Scenes are already incredibly insular; I would hate to see the one
>>> mechanism that seems to exist to push at that disappear.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:19 AM Evan Raskob <evanraskob_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it worth taking this discussion to the new forum, alex? It seems
>>>> like
>>>> it might be better for conversation.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:13 PM Alex McLean <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sure, but this is an existential crisis.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree though that cultural exchange is important, and potentially
>>>>> part of the solution rather than problem. So we have to be imaginative
>>>>> and practical in coming up with something that fits best for our
>>>>> community.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 15:47, Sarah Groff-Palermo
>>>>> <sarah.groff.palermo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Eh, honestly, I can see the people in my city all the time. While I
>>>>> understand the reasons, I'd be pretty disappointed with a distributed
>>>>> ICLC.
>>>>> To me the whole point is to meet the bigger community.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:39 AM Tom Karches <tkarches_at_gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Going along with this should be an effort to encourage
>>>>> geographically local groups to form. Which makes the entire community
>>>>> stronger. Local community is important.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Tom
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:40 AM Alex McLean <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Anyone interested in hosting a 'hub' as part of a future,
>>>>> distributed
>>>>> >>> edition of ICLC? The idea being to reduce impact on the
>>>>> >>> environment
>>>>> >>> and make the conference more accessible to people who can't
>>>>> >>> afford/spare the time for long haul flights. Should be a lot
>>>>> >>> easier
>>>>> >>> than hosting a whole ICLC.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Let me know if you'd like to join a discussion exploring this idea
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> cheers
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> alex
>>>>> >>>
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