diff --git a/content/english/board-meeting-20250318/index.md b/content/english/board-meeting-20250318/index.md index 9fa4705..ca65314 100644 --- a/content/english/board-meeting-20250318/index.md +++ b/content/english/board-meeting-20250318/index.md @@ -20,20 +20,20 @@ No agenda set, first meeting - Sister conference to Seattle - Return to original technical lectures format - No more online track: No more online tickets or Twitch stream for Boston -- We still plan to record in-person lectures for archival +- Goal is to be the "fully offline" conference - Boston should have job booth rentals just like Seattle -**2025 Target:** Two-hundred in-person attendees. We're still in the growth and experimentation stage +**2025 Target:** Two-hundred in-person attendees. We're still in the growth and experimentation stage. It wasn't until the third HMS that we found the perfect business model. This will now be our third HMB, following same trajectory. 2. **Handmade Seattle (HMS): Dec 5-7 (Fri-Sun)** - Flagship Conference - Fully-Hybrid: Physical track and online track like always -- The formula is already perfected, just need to focus on selling out current venue again +- The formula's already perfected, just need to focus on ticket sales **2025 Target:** Four-hundred in-person attendees. The closest we got to selling all in-person tickets was Fall 2023, with 97% of all tickets sold (right before mass layoffs hit hard.) -**Founder's note:** A general phenomenon is that once you finally pack a venue (typically a 400-seat theater), you'll see exponential growth the following year, exploding to say one thousand ticket holders and then an order of magnitude after that. See PyCon, VidCon, etc. +**Founder's note:** A general phenomenon is that once you pack a venue (typically a 400-seat theater) you'll see exponential growth the following year, exploding to say one thousand ticket holders, then an order of magnitude after that. See PyCon, VidCon, etc. 3. **Ticket Sales** - Early bird sale begins sometime in the Spring (with 20% discount)