Author Topic: Warpstock - nearly 6 months later, what's happening with the 2025 event  (Read 2869 times)

JTA

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As in, I can't find any activity on the Warpstock site about 2025, and I'd like to see more activity and thought going into the next one. Issues, actions, etc.:

1. update the Warpstock site ... it shows Warpstock 2023 still !?!?
  - put something up about 2025
  - put something up about the "process" (board has various open or closed meetings, etc.)
  - is it just me, or is the Warpstock site slow (as in molasses slow)?

2. call for ideas, early, and often
  - start to flesh out the sessions/tracks sooner, to build "sales" and enthusiasm

3. have a remote-in capability, just as valuable as in-person (I'd pay for this)

4. how can we help?

And so on ...

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Re: Warpstock - nearly 6 months later, what's happening with the 2025 event
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2025, 10:41:38 pm »
As in, I can't find any activity on the Warpstock site about 2025, and I'd like to see more activity and thought going into the next one. Issues, actions, etc.:

1. update the Warpstock site ... it shows Warpstock 2023 still !?!?
  - put something up about 2025
  - put something up about the "process" (board has various open or closed meetings, etc.)
  - is it just me, or is the Warpstock site slow (as in molasses slow)?

It is just you. Current information has been up for some time now. I'm not sure why you can't see it.
Warpstock 2025 is likely next fall. We have time.
We could use a volunteer to keep the website fresher.

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2. call for ideas, early, and often
  - start to flesh out the sessions/tracks sooner, to build "sales" and enthusiasm

I notice that you published your comment here, not on Warpstock.org, where there is a forum to discuss ideas.
We have fewer presenters every year. It's not because we don't ask.
Warpstock 2024 had fewer presenters than the time slots.
This may represent a slowing of OS/2 development.

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3. have a remote-in capability, just as valuable as in-person (I'd pay for this)

We have had a remote-in capability for several years. But it's free. Charging for it would be a lot of work. Ideally we'd need a new volunteer to run it.

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4. how can we help?

And so on ...

If you want to help, you can join the team -- use the forum on the Warpstock.org site.
If you want to see more presentations, maybe consider preparing one yourself.
And thanks for your comments. Warpstock is a volunteer effort. With more volunteers, it could be better.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2025, 10:06:42 pm by Martin Iturbide »
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Re: Warpstock - nearly 6 months later, what's happening with the 2025 event
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2025, 01:16:32 am »
The Warpstock site definitely feels old ... I clicked around my earlier link (my fault), and feel sure I'm hitting the real front page. It still feels "old", because:
  - It shows the 2024 warpstock event ... perhaps that's what folks want to show? Not the future event for 2025, but leave the older event up until something changes, even thought that event is over?
  - dozens of other links/entries show nothing but old dates ... this contributes to the feeling that nothing is ever updated on Warpstock.
  - if I travel a link to get to something, I things like "the last entry was 2007" or such. Perhaps take off these "old" dates altogether?

I was able to remote into the 2024 event, but per another thread I have on this forum (right below this thread), there were all kinds of issues, and it left me feeling like I couldn't participate as well as if I were there (and I couldn't attend the 2024 site). It was free, but I'd gladly pay to get something better ...

I still have no idea how "the process" will work to plan for 2025 ... there is no calendar that I can easily find, so I have no idea how, or if, I can participate in that. Meetings may happen, or will happen, but it's a black hole at the moment, almost 6 months in. After 6 months, shouldn't there be something, somewhere? And more specifically, something about all the presentations that are going to happen in 2025? To build momentum?

I posted here on os2world, because this site feels newer ... things are happening, and I thought it would get more eyeballs on it. The "forum" pieces of Warpstock seem old ... the last "event" entries were from 2022.

Perhaps OS/2 itself is fading not because it is old, but because there's too much old stuff about it laying around (Warpstock is one such site ... user groups are another). There just isn't a good effort underway (that I can see) to sell all the new possibilities of OS/2 ...

I love OS/2 ... I presented in 2023, so I love the idea of Warpstock (and it's still a cool name) ... just can't seem to see the fireworks around OS/2.

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Re: Warpstock - nearly 6 months later, what's happening with the 2025 event
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2025, 03:21:47 pm »
That's a more accurate description. Thanks.

So, this could probably be fixed by a volunteer. It would have to be someone who wanted to promote the Warpstock meeting and the OS/2 community.

Warpstock 2025 will be announced once the details are done. It would be nice if we could gather a larger group to attend the meeting.

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