{"id":844,"date":"2004-01-27T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/27\/my-favorite-parts-of-arisia\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:01:40","slug":"my-favorite-parts-of-arisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/my-favorite-parts-of-arisia\/","title":{"rendered":"My favorite parts of Arisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arisia.org\/\">Arisia<\/a> was in 1991. That&#8217;s a lot of conning&#8230;  This year, I just went to a few events. And actually&#8230; hmm. I didn&#8217;t make it to a single of the 420 or so panels. I planned on making it to 5 or 10 but&#8230; hey.<\/p>\n<p>So here are my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artist Guest of Honor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurganson.com\/\">Arthur Ganson&#8217;s<\/a> machines (he&#8217;s got some really nice videos of his work online). He gave a talk with videos and had some pieces at the Art Show. Cool.\n<\/li>\n<li>    Writer Guest of Honor <strong>Tim Powers<\/strong> talking about how his genre was crap and that everybody knows it. That was a very adventurous premise for a talk and it worked out very well. Witty, funny, fun, interesting.\n<\/li>\n<li>    Freedom Guest of Honor<strong> Eric Raymond&#8217;s<\/strong> speech. Some talking points I remember most are:\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>      &#8211; He had fashion advice for geeks. In business dealings with non-techies, you should look like (and he admits that he borrowed this term from someone else, but then he also borrowed the term &#8220;open source&#8221; and did well with that, but I digress&#8230;)  you should <strong>look like &#8220;a prince from another country&#8221;<\/strong>. If you try to wear a suit, you&#8217;ll just look like a junior executive. And their job is to go fetch coffee and get shat upon. Instead, wear Landsend loafers and expensive casual shirts and the like.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8211; Don&#8217;t use gushy emotions to market your product. Use fear, greed, vanity, and desire for control. Don&#8217;t say, &#8220;Buy open source because it&#8217;s good for the world.&#8221; Instead say, &#8220;Use open source because the driving motivation for closed source companies is to trap you in a proprietary environment and then raise prices. If your closed source provider goes belly-up, you&#8217;re in big trouble! Open source software is free and it works, today. If you want a new feature, your costs will be easily identifiable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      &#8211; Middle management&#8217;s job is to say &#8220;no&#8221;. So don&#8217;t talk to middle management. They are &#8220;organizational conservators&#8221;. People at the bottom can do things but not make decisions. People at the top can make decisions but not do things. Talk to the top.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8211; If you&#8217;re selling a big idea, forget about advertising in technical papers. Go for the money-people, Wall St. Journal etc. Technical magazines don&#8217;t get read by decision makers.<\/p>\n<p>It was also very interesting to see that there were 2 polyamory panels at Arisia.<\/p>\n<p>I had wanted to see: Microcontrollers, Reading &#8211; Cecilia Tan, Origami, Icehouse Games demo, Foam Carving, Dr. Seuss, Special Filk Guest Concert: Tom Smith, The Golden Days of Classic Arcade, Internet Governance: Who Rules the Net?, What&#8217;s Up With Copyright These Days, The Digital Millenium Copyright Act at 5, Commissioned Art, Slide Show &#8211; Casting in Bronze, Are Radio Plays Dead?, Masquerade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my first Arisia was in 1991. That&#8217;s a lot of conning&#8230; This year, I just went to a few events. And actually&#8230; hmm. I didn&#8217;t make it to a single of the 420 or so panels. I planned on making it to 5 or 10 but&#8230; hey. So here are my favorites: Artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}