Hello Abraham and Katherine,
Thank you for the announcement. I hope that people find the conference to
be enjoyable and productive.
The community has a highly distributed and non-pyramidal structure, and
having "all the right people at the table to design the implementation" is
unlikely. I caution against setting expectations for the conference that
are too high.
I hope that the conference is successful.
Pine
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