EUROPEAN BITCOIN CONFERENCE 2011, PRAGUE NOV 25-27 - page 5.

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Quote from: apetersson on November 28, 2011, 09:40:56 AM

Something that is not easy to fix: I was quite shocked that almost ONLY male, middle-aged white were attending. It makes me sad how society is excluding women from pursuing tech careers and interests.

I'm tempted to answer this, but it would lead the thread off topic. This merits a seperate thread. If you make one, I'll happily let you know my opinions on this issue. ^^

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genjix, worldly, others,

What is your take (and the legal implications for that matter) on me publishing my recordings (or parts of them) on youtube or otherwise? Can I do this? If so, what license should I choose (youtube or cc)?

EDIT: I know you're going to use my and your material and the good audio to produce good videos of the talks, which will take some time.

Maybe it makes sense to publish at least some outtakes of the raw material to satisfy the understandable desire of the community get an impression of what the conference was about and what it felt like. For me it had quite a revolutionary feel to it... everyone was so excited.

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Thanks for the conference! It was a great experience and i hope to see a continuation next year!

What i especially liked:

Very good selection of speakers!
Nice hotel, good venue.
Prague very good reachable from many locations - especially from Vienna
Many opportunities to talk to other conference participants. At the hotel, at the Registration and afterwards!
The panel discussion lead by Max Keiser was great.

Some tips how you can further improve the professional experience:

Allow Questions to be posted to google moderator (http://www.google.com/moderator) during the talk, that the speaker can answer them afterwards. provide a display for him to see them.
More Time for the Talks. We started quite late in the morning (11:00) and had few pauses. There would have been enough material for an extra half day.
upload the talks to parleys afterwards. this is the best and most professional place to host presentations i know of. it may cost a bit to host there. but it is the only space i know of that provides slides + video in good sync.
Aamir Takir had a good talk, i liked it. He has some strengths, but moderation is not one of them. Sometimes it is better to let the speakers talk or take questions from the audience instead of stating opinions for extended amount of time. I would have liked a more neutral moderator with more practice.
Provide more alternative drinks (Club Mate!) and maybe even professional catering. i had problems paying full attention at the end of the day without caffeine and i don't drink coffee. plus there was not really time to buy it at the mall.
The wifi at hard rock cafe must be mentioned. If you had a mobile hotspot from a phone that would have solved some problems.

Of course some of those things cost money, but i would be happy to pay my share. if it cost 100€ instead of 75€ - this would still be a fair price.

Something that is not easy to fix: I was quite shocked that almost ONLY male, middle-aged white were attending. It makes me sad how society is excluding women from pursuing tech careers and interests.

slush

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Thank you for organizing the conference, it was amazing experience for me. I met a lot of people from this forum and also a people who helped me to build or improve the pool.

I also appreciated speakers who express some criticism and talked about problems. Sometimes it's absolutely necessary to leave our Bitcoin cave and look around for different opinion of people and find some new inspiration.

During those three days I made around 10 of real-world bitcoin payments. I found it very easy and convenient. Bitcoin payments are much faster than credit cards and even than cash. I went to the local market after the conference and found that I forgot to withdraw cash, because I paid almost everything with bitcoins in last days. I hope they'll accept Bitcoins soon so I don't need to find ATM :-).

I'm also pretty happy for that experience with wifi in Hard Rock Cafe. Obviously not all wifi routers are capable to download blockchain for 50 people at the same time ;-). It was definitely mistake of Cafe staff, because we asked them for fixing wifi a day ago, but we can think about some alternative solutions for situations like this (support sending transactions over sms or over QR code, for example?).

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Max Keiser announced to add Bitcoin as a payment option for his project http://piratemyfilm.com. He also wants to push Bitcoin into broader adoption (1 million users) in 2012.

caveden

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There was also the announcement of that dedicated device development, by Clemens Cap.

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We announced a pre-alpha of MultiBit Merchant. Open source software for merchants to set up a store and accept bitcoin payments. It has an HTML5 web socket back from the server to the client to push transaction / blockchain notifications.

The slides and a backup screencast are ~~in this thread~~ on the other eurobit thread here - and on the Alternative Clients MultiBit thread. (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.632096)

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Sorry but in the chaos, I forgot to make the announcement. It was that we found a bug in the AGPL due to a specific behaviour of bitcoin, and that the SFLC/FSF will be drafting a new version of the AGPL which will include a p2p clause. It's based on the fact that derivative works need to be proactive in providing the source code (you can't provide it on request). Also there was the talk of making a lesser AGPL too.

Something small + nice that's happening for bitcoin. But in the confusion I forgot to say it.

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Quote from: worldly on November 27, 2011, 05:15:20 AM

Here are a few pics i had on my camera, mainly behind the scenes stuff, dont worry im not the official photographer.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70833481@N05/?saved=1

What a contrast with the NY conference pictures!!!

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Quote from: bitclown on November 28, 2011, 03:28:51 AM

Quote from: genjix on November 16, 2011, 12:24:47 PM

Quote from: cbeast on November 16, 2011, 08:23:30 AM

There hasn't been much hype for Bitcoin lately. Are there any interesting developments to be announced at this conference?

Yes.

What were the announcements?

They are to be announced.

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Quote from: genjix on November 16, 2011, 12:24:47 PM

Quote from: cbeast on November 16, 2011, 08:23:30 AM

There hasn't been much hype for Bitcoin lately. Are there any interesting developments to be announced at this conference?

Yes.

What were the announcements?

caveden

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Just adding my voice to all those saying that the conference was a great experience.

The talks were good, and meeting so many other bitcoin enthusiasts was also great. I hope I can keep in touch with most of them.

Prague is also a nice city, even when we add the frozen weather to the equation. Impressive how it has good infrastructure and at the same time prices are so low. A hotel of the same quality of that Panorama one would likely cost three times more here in France. And what can I say about those cheap beers and the deliciously cheap pork meat! Cheesy

You made a good choice of venue, for sure!

My sincere congratulations to everyone behind the organization of this great event!

lonelyminer (Peter Šurda)

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It was a great experience, thanks to the organisers and all the participants. It was also a nice experience to use Bitcoins in trade, I bought a beer with Bitcoins at the brmlab hackspace. I also sold all Casascius coins that I had with me (only kept the last one for myself), there was so much demand I ran out of them in a couple of minutes. Maybe I should have sold them at a higher price :-).

The payment didn't work out for me the first night at the cocktail party due to issues with wifi. Maybe next time there's a conference like this, someone can bring a portable 3g/wifi router, or maybe the devs can develop a mobile payment app that does not require the payer to have an internet connection (rather his mobile just creates the transaction and transmits it back to the payee, who then injects it into the network instead).

Overall it was very interesting and will help me in my research.

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Quote from: worldly on November 27, 2011, 05:15:20 AM

Here are a few pics i had on my camera, mainly behind the scenes stuff, dont worry im not the official photographer.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70833481@N05/?saved=1

Now that's a convention, from the looks of it after viewing your photos.

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Quote from: cbeast on November 27, 2011, 08:35:58 PM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on November 27, 2011, 08:32:24 PM

Quote from: amencon on November 27, 2011, 08:26:18 PM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on November 26, 2011, 09:38:01 PM

when you mess with the bulls, you get the herpes.

I don't think they are worried. You can't get herpes twice.

Can you??

I guess if you already have the same type of herpes, you just get a different kind instead.

Ask a doctor, not trolls.

What about Doctor Troll?

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on November 27, 2011, 08:32:24 PM

Quote from: amencon on November 27, 2011, 08:26:18 PM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on November 26, 2011, 09:38:01 PM

when you mess with the bulls, you get the herpes.

I don't think they are worried. You can't get herpes twice.

Can you??

I guess if you already have the same type of herpes, you just get a different kind instead.

Ask a doctor, not trolls.

Matthew N. Wright

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Quote from: amencon on November 27, 2011, 08:26:18 PM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on November 26, 2011, 09:38:01 PM

when you mess with the bulls, you get the herpes.

I don't think they are worried. You can't get herpes twice.

Can you??

I guess if you already have the same type of herpes, you just get a different kind instead.

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on November 26, 2011, 09:38:01 PM

when you mess with the bulls, you get the herpes.

I don't think they are worried. You can't get herpes twice.

Can you??

wareen

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Thank you Mitchell for organizing a great event!

I very much enjoyed the program, the great lineup and meeting all those interesting people from the Bitcoin community!

I really appreciate all the effort you put into making this conference a reality and I'm already looking forward to the next Wink

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Quote from: BitPay Business Solutions on November 27, 2011, 05:22:38 AM

Quote from: molecular on November 27, 2011, 03:57:00 AM

Did you take Max?

Hope you had a great time!

Nope, Max and Stacy just went back to the hotel. It was good to finally meet you!

Same here, really ncie to to put faces to people Wink

. I also heard you apparently _did_ have a great time, lol. Way to go.

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