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[297.62 --> 300.08] There were a lot of people, but yeah.
[300.08 --> 301.92] And Brian was also in the band.
[302.60 --> 312.20] So, uh, and they got, yeah, Mark Bates, uh, Cassandra, uh, Salisbury, Vanessa, um, Chris
[312.20 --> 312.58] Nova.
[313.58 --> 315.04] Um, who else?
[315.76 --> 316.88] Brian Downs.
[317.54 --> 317.94] Yeah.
[318.12 --> 319.12] Raj, Raj Pepe.
[319.88 --> 320.20] Yeah.
[320.20 --> 322.02] So it was, uh, JBD.
[322.58 --> 323.18] JBD.
[323.18 --> 323.42] JBD.
[323.92 --> 327.64] So, and it was really awesome though, because everybody kind of got up there and performed in
[327.64 --> 334.18] the band that was there, um, kind of backfilled positions that, uh, we didn't have community
[334.18 --> 334.94] members for.
[335.26 --> 338.80] And that was actually, um, Brian's idea to do the band thing.
[339.34 --> 340.98] Wasn't Kyle in the band as well?
[341.06 --> 341.90] I forgot his last name.
[342.40 --> 343.04] From Denver.
[344.26 --> 345.18] No, I don't know.
[345.32 --> 346.24] No, no.
[347.18 --> 347.40] Yeah.
[347.40 --> 348.04] It was really great.
[348.10 --> 353.02] And one of the things I loved about that, and I was telling, uh, it might've been, um,
[353.78 --> 357.12] Adam, when they were doing the little change log interviews, I was talking about it.
[357.12 --> 362.22] One of the things that I love the most about that is we often admire people for their technical
[362.22 --> 364.46] abilities and, and everything.
[364.46 --> 368.02] But we also forget that everybody kind of has hobbies and hidden talents.
[368.02 --> 372.70] And it's really great to see a bunch of people, you know, share theirs with us.
[374.64 --> 377.62] Let me also say that I'm a really bad introvert.
[378.06 --> 380.24] And I had that realization after this.
[380.46 --> 385.00] So this, a good, this is what a good introvert looks like.
[385.00 --> 388.16] And I know this because I've seen one, Katrina Owen.
[388.32 --> 393.16] Sometimes you see her at a conference and she'll be walking away, walking out in the
[393.16 --> 393.70] middle of the day.
[393.70 --> 394.80] And you're like, where are you going?
[395.78 --> 398.70] And she's like, I'm going to my hotel and I'm going to rest.
[399.18 --> 400.40] That's a good introvert.
[401.14 --> 404.76] A bad introvert like me just keeps on going.
[405.04 --> 406.96] And I just kept, you know, that's what I do.
[407.02 --> 411.28] Every time I go to conference, I just keep going day, morning, day and night.
[411.28 --> 415.38] And I don't, I don't, I don't ever say no to meeting somebody or having dinner or having
[415.38 --> 415.88] drinks.
[416.72 --> 419.20] Man, I was so exhausted when I came back.
[419.20 --> 420.50] I couldn't even function.
[420.80 --> 424.76] So next time I need to like take at least a couple of days off afterwards.
[425.64 --> 426.82] I'm in that camp too.
[426.90 --> 431.72] The bad introvert camp where I overwhelm myself a whole week.
[432.04 --> 435.40] And then I go home and it's like, nobody talked to me.
[435.40 --> 437.02] Yeah, I'm in my cave.
[438.24 --> 439.92] I need to, need to recharge.
[441.04 --> 441.84] It's hard though.
[441.88 --> 448.82] When you get that much interaction, that much social pressure condensed and then you're done.
[448.86 --> 450.28] It's just like, okay, I'm done.
[450.38 --> 451.30] I don't want to talk to people.
[451.42 --> 452.62] I don't want to talk to nobody.
[452.84 --> 453.80] No, no, no, no, no.
[453.82 --> 454.78] Just leave me alone.
[454.90 --> 455.76] I'll be in my cave.
[456.58 --> 461.44] And, you know, I don't, I don't know if there's a better way to deal with it, but it's certainly
[461.44 --> 462.78] difficult for me.
[462.78 --> 468.90] And one, one thing too, um, that I wanted to point out from an earlier point that Carly
[468.90 --> 475.06] you see I made is this was kind of like the biggest, um, one yet, but yeah, I've, I felt
[475.06 --> 475.72] a lot more.
[475.80 --> 479.66] I don't want to say any of the prior years didn't have that tight knit community feeling
[479.66 --> 480.58] because they really did.
[481.20 --> 484.34] Um, but I feel like it's getting even tighter.
[484.34 --> 489.72] Like a lot of people I think felt like it'd get lost with, um, the growth.
[489.72 --> 493.14] Uh, that's one of the things that they loved so much about the first year.
[493.64 --> 498.90] But I think that a lot of the stuff is, is really kind of come back and so many people
[498.90 --> 501.82] socializing and collaborating on stuff, especially community day.
[501.96 --> 503.24] Community day was awesome.
[505.26 --> 508.52] All of it was the, the, everything about it was just fantastic.
[509.44 --> 512.28] My most memorable day was the day.
[512.34 --> 514.56] I mean, it has nothing to do with the conference more about me.
[514.60 --> 515.44] It is about me now.
[515.44 --> 520.78] I had dinner twice in one night, one night.
[520.92 --> 523.64] I had the women who go dinner, which I could miss of course.
[523.78 --> 527.20] And then I had another dinner that I also didn't want to miss.
[527.22 --> 527.98] I'm like, okay.
[527.98 --> 533.30] So I eat, I eat two salads in one and then I went and had a regular dinner afterwards.
[534.24 --> 535.26] So yeah.
[535.40 --> 537.20] Life is tough when you go to KoforCon.
[537.20 --> 541.18] I had a, um, never ending dinner one night.
[541.50 --> 543.76] Uh, was it the first night?
[543.86 --> 546.32] Uh, maybe I think it was workshop day.
[546.32 --> 548.44] So the night most people came in traveling.
[549.14 --> 554.92] Um, we were in the, uh, what's the name of the restaurant downstairs?
[555.22 --> 556.38] The Buffalo burger place.
[557.04 --> 558.20] Stout street social.
[558.36 --> 563.68] Stout street social, which is directly across the street from the convention center and downstairs
[563.68 --> 568.82] from where a lot of us were staying and we met a group of people that were there.
[569.02 --> 572.86] Uh, I think Brian, you were part of the initial group or maybe you weren't, but I don't know.
[572.88 --> 575.74] There was like 10 or 15 people there, like this long table.
[576.00 --> 581.72] And it was like, we were there for hours and it was like a group would get up and a new group
[581.72 --> 587.08] would join and then they rotated out at least eight or nine times throughout the night.
[587.08 --> 590.48] Like, I don't even know how many checks came, but it was kind of funny because we were just
[590.48 --> 591.66] there basically all night.
[591.66 --> 593.48] It was constantly new people.
[593.58 --> 594.42] I didn't have to go anywhere.