To be clear, this was a "melding of the worlds" kind of event with different families and sundry friends coming together, not a "musicians hanging out with programmers" social event.
But as is always the case unless you work as a professional pollster, I don't have any idea how representative my samples are. It was just an observation from my experience.
There are definitely artists who live off external validation out there.
They just don’t hang out with engineers in the weekend.