How !!Con came to be... and its future!

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Origin story and logistics: a conference born in 2013-14 from a joke that required a website and a CFP now reports nearly 300 proposals this year, pays for travel and paying honorariums, runs open captioning and video, and ends the year with a small surplus used for new projects. Expansion is concrete: a West Coast edition in Santa Cruz for early 2019 with UC Santa Cruz seed funding and an explicit plan to train new organizers.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 1:00Funding model
3. 3:30Sponsors impact
4. 5:40Origin story
5. 11:20Scaling with events
6. 16:25Start your own conference
7. 17:47West Coast expansion
8. 20:01Closing remarks

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