{"id":8240,"date":"2018-10-19T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T10:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:52:12","slug":"doug-quotes-how-to-host-or-attend-a-tiny-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/doug-quotes-how-to-host-or-attend-a-tiny-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmark: @dajbelshaw Are tiny conferences and meetups better than big ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Doug quotes <a href=\"https:\/\/briancasel.com\/tiny-conferences\/\">How to Host or Attend a \u201cTiny\u201d Conference<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>eight pointers for running a successful \u2018Tiny Conf\u2019:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Keep it \u2018tiny\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Make it application and invite-only<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I agree totally about the value of small. Not so sure about invite-only might miss some serendipity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There have only been a few TeachMeets in scotland recently, I wonder if it is worth keeping <a href=\"http:\/\/teachmeet.scot\">TeachMeet.scot<\/a> going?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug quotes How to Host or Attend a \u201cTiny\u201d Conference eight pointers for running a successful \u2018Tiny Conf\u2019: Keep it \u2018tiny\u2019 Make it application and invite-only I think I agree totally about the value of small. Not so sure about invite-only might miss some serendipity&#8230; There have only been a few TeachMeets in scotland recently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1053260821932007424"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,817],"tags":[4],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-8240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-enviable-stuff","7":"category-reactions","8":"tag-teachmeet","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-bookmark","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry","14":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-28U","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}