Re:Why start a new database conference?
by cmontella on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:58PM
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Yes that’s the one! It was Chris Granger’s project that Jamie worked on for a while (along with Josh Rob and Eric and myself). Eve came around at a time when Bret Victor’s videos were very popular and a lot of people were unhappy with the state of the web and programming in general.
Since then there’s been a pretty relentless if niche community growing around the idea. Eve is gone but the idea lives on in many different communities, and I think it’s clear the same spirit that spawned Eve motivates Jamie’s conference.
The primary venue for this kind of work has been the Live! workshop at SplashCon.
There’s also a community of people working on projects of this sort:
I think Jamie’s conference would be a good addition to this community, especially being in the spring, since Live is in the fall.
[0] http://witheve.com/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817468