# IPFS Thing 2023 - Retro

Use this doc to gather feedback about the 2023.
We will split the time as follows:8888

- **15m writing** - ~3m for each of the sections below.
- **7m reading + rate** - read, group, & emoji-rate
- **20m Discussion** - discuss the top items in each section

Reminders:
- Retros are blameless -- sourcing lots of feedback and opinion
- Feedback is a gift -- both positive and negative feedback.
- Retros shape the future -- lots about this event was shaped by last event's retro.
- Opinions vary, people disagree, it's better to voice your opinion, even if others disagree. We take feedback w/ appropriate salt. 🧂
- Try to make it concrete & actionable

## Writing

Things to consider:
- Venue
- Event Format
- Tracks
- Unconf
- Discussions
- The þing itself
- Things for IPFS Camp
- Next Steps

### Liked 💜

- Venue:
- Everything in one spot to get used to over the days ++++++++++++++++👍+👍👍👍
- the hotel's food was really good +++++👍+
- Great Beer +++👍👍
- Events were all well planned and everything was conveniently located. Great food nearby. ++++
- Wolf across the street 4 food+++
- ⚛ Atomium was very cool ++++++++++👍👍
- Atrium with natural sun light ++
- Many rooms for break out sessions and quiet hacking ++ +👍👍
- lot's of space for hacking ++
- was at the same place as the conf. +++ 👍👍👍
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- Venue and Staff very accommodating;Fact that all was on the same floor helped the flow, and made the whole thing smooth ++
- travel here was fast
- Social time/events were nicely planned and executed - good venue options, good food [go YUNI]+++👍💓💓👍👍+
- Game NIGHT! 👍👍
- Atrium f
- Yuni and Nicole are awesome 💓👍💓👍💓👍💓👍💓👍💓👍👍👍👍👍++
- Event Format
- only three tracks to fight between at a time+👍+
- tracks format with a running theme +👍
- Running theme & cross team is great for collaboration!
- excellent -- many connections made +👍👍
- Tracks
- competing tracks were hard to follow.👍👍
- i liked the track choices, and that there was a clear leader of each track👍👍
- shared topic & cross team is great mix

- tracks having non-aligned timeslot ligned timesloligned timesloligned timeslo
- All content was highly relevant.+👍👍
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- all the tracks had incredibly engaging titles
- End to end demos of things working
- Unconf
- Prepared agendas were helpful in making progress 👍
- so many rooms to unconf in ++👍
- Lots of room for more impromptu conversation compared to previous events👍
- Very easy to schedule and get people to hear ideas +
- Incredibly productive sessions with highly actionable discussions + ⭐️👍👍
- sheet made it easy to see, and to add to +
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- Great to sync with other teams and build alignment on features to be build!+👍👍
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- Discussions
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- loved UCANs❤️ 🦜❤️❤️💜👍
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- Lotus+Boost discussions helped sovle tricky things
- real talk - some hard things covered in a lot of hallways👍💖
- Diversity of participants resulted in a lot of enlightening discussions with fresh perspectives.
- Communal meeting spot was good for ad-hoc discussions
- Tiles
- RIBS Exists!+👍
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- The þing itself
- Enough concentration to really focus on just the thing.
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- Enough breaks for 1-1 conversations in addition to talks👍
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- felt like the website could have more info (maybe behind a pw for attendees)
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- Sync time ❤️❤️
- meeting people outside PL ❤️
- Talkin application of the stuff we are building.👍
- Was great to work with
- Things for IPFS Camp
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- more ipfs based tools👍
- Next Steps
- Can we capture commitments and next steps and circulate. Maybe Starmaps👍+
- Involve managers more in the event
- Publish a 👍
- build on the promises made
- more docs more videos more blog posts

### Learned 🧠
- Venue
- i will not leave the building if it's the same as event+ 👍
- great atrium
- Use the do not disturb or get an early wake up -
- 8 is not early
- it is if you came from US
- yeah
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- How far along implementations have already come! Great progress!++ 👍
- Brussels gave us all Smurfs+++
- concept of PLN and blue/green teams still not
- ~~french~~ freedom fries in brussels is a thing++
- THEY ARE NOT FRENCH
- Event Format
- happy hours were great+++👍👍👍
- Right balance of session lengths (although long days)++👍👍+👍
- its great to have so much time to network ++1+++++
- very nice to see coworkers and community members again+ 👍
- Tracks
- Better be prepared to run between tracks
- Combined sense of Q2 roadmaps and expected work from many of the teams
- Community & Governance should've been on Monday 👍
- three tracks per day is still a lot!!!+👍👍
- QUIC seems to be everywhere 👍
- People actually like Rust :)++++++👍👍❤️+💯
- Lots of folks are genuinely interested in participating in content routing design discussions+👍
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- Unconf
- more show and tell for things already working and perf improvements, not just the shiny new things.++👍
- RIBS (the blockstore) is very cool!+ :meat_on_bone: 👍👍
- did you go to the Amadeus place?!
- We can make our software usable by normal humans 👍
- The Hydras are slaying themselves
- NNS all the things plz +++
- WebTransport is really cool ++👍👍 👍
- Discussions
- 🗣 HTTP is really important + 👍👍👍+👍👍
- Privacy and threat modeling may need more intentional consider 👍👍
- Maybe we get rid of block size limit++++🤯
- We are builiding a taller stack now 👍
- IPFS is content addressing now 🗣 (always has been?++)
- Very excited with better than Web2 speeds (with rapide etc) 👍
- We could do a better job learning from existing (content addressable) systems
- People want IPFS to do the p2p things +
- Difficultgs
- Lots of
- The þing itself
- it's ok to sneak off to get some rest sometimes+++++👍👍👍👍
- it's good to have the space to get rest nearby+ 👍
- hackathon could've been a nice addition maybe.+👍+++
- ch awesome
- i can only take so much awesome+
- Things for IPFS Camp
- It's happening in India! +👍👍
- I want to bring in the technical FFDW partners -- IPFS is often more what they want/need to know than the Filecoin side of things
- how do we recap IPFS Thing for IPFS Camp (and v)
- ipfs camp and thing are VERY different things+
- mork workshop and hands on experience
- we probably have some stuff that should work by camp
- Commit to shipping end to end experiences for usage at Camp
- Next Steps
- More protocols, more UCAN, more of everything?
- We have IPFS Camp, then IPFS Thing.. we need another abstraction
- We should focus on making IPFS implementations that have a specific usageation for self-hosting, implementation for in-browser uasge, etc. One size does not fit all.⭐️
- Fix peerpad 👍👍
- IPVM when?

### Lacked 🤔wwwwwwwwwwwwww

- Venue
- Slightly too spread out -- more loops with everyone together (maybe retros every day)
- seating at dinner +++++++++++++👍
- very isolated from outdoors; what i👍
- Table and seats for breakfast and lunches. 👍👍++
- Did anyone eat in Royal?
- Sunlight 👍👍👍+
- microphones for games night
- Management track to bring more harmony to the network
- starting on saturday is though. missing a weekend is exhausting 👍👍👍👍
- Event Format
- Important to do timezone changes a few days beforehand or won't be at full capacity.👍
- calendar+ 👍
- wwwwww -
- Mornings for talks/afternoons for unconf/sessions?+ 👍👍👍👍
- The schedule on the web was difficult to read on a mobile phone. 👍👍
- Also has a bug when reloading the website after opening one of the events. You can't open the event info anymore.
- hackat
- Dinners were starting (and finishing!) very late
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- More options for sitting down at dinners, not standing all night 👍 👍 👍
- Too intense. After listening to talks for half a day, it was difficult to concentrate in the afternoons. Suggestion: talks in the morning, workshops & unconf sessions.+ 👍👍
- too much concurrency less tracks would be nicer 👍
- We need a way to get CSV dump / export of tracks/talks so can more easily plot your adventure. 👍👍
- the even
- Tracks
- What's on
- Unconf
- No opening session/circle each day where people announce the unconf sessions they are organizing +
- No closing session/circle to highlight what was awesome each day
- Discussions
- The þing itself
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- Things for IPFS Camp
- Next Steps
- A way to fold together all the improvements
- go through the onboarding process for every tool your team is responsible for, and fix any bugs in that process

### Longed For / STOP 😩

- Venue
- Alcohol cart went away too abruptly/quickly +
- During happy hour? Unfortuantely only had it for an hour.
- more microphones to avoid huge delays passing them around in the main room +
- Moreso when speakers were remote
- Event Format
- outdoor time 👍👍👍+1 +👍👍👍👍=========👍
- maybe blend tracks/unconf more: a full day of talks is hard to pay attention to, maybe talks in the morning and unconf in the afternoon 👍 👍
- Dinners were starting very late. 👍
- Do you prefer to get rid of "free" time in between?
- Tracks
- separate Compute from AI ++
- Current website very hard to find sessions +👍👍
- slack invite hard to find
- We emailed and also added everyone. Let me know if there's a better way to get people invited.
- publish videos early so we can watch talks we missed before the conference ends 👍
- video will support faster as soon as we get "curated" list of the videos that should be published faster
- Unconf
- less prepared unconf sessions for freestyling on things
- longed for a physical board/whiteboard with the unconf schedule on it...digital is "fine" but an actual board is more convenient for coordinating rooms and times. 👍
- Discussions
- The þing itself
- hackathon
- Bring our own network infra -- IPFS in a box 👍
- Things for IPFS Camp
- Next Steps
- Several engineers said they did not have manager approval for time to a) prep for IPFS Thing content or b) to commit to do work afterwards 👍
- Revive Peerpad and test w/ 300 concurrent users 👍👍👍

## Ratings

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