# IPFS Thing 2022 - Retro

## Liked 💜

- location!👍👍 ❤️👍❤️❤️👍❤️👍👍👍👍❤️👍⭐️
- Delicious food in beautiful vibes (whale museum!)👍❤️❤️❤️❤️👍❤️❤️❤️👍❤️👍❤️
- meeting multiple people from the same team, getting a sense of different team's culture👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
- Meeting everyone in person👍❤️👍❤️👍👍❤️👍❤️
- Talking with extremally talented and commited people who made me learn a lot👍👍👍👍❤️👍👍👍❤️
- Dinners and events outside the conf were ON POINT!!! Yuni FTW ❤️👍👍👍❤️👍❤️
- UCANs👍💖👍👍❤️👍❤️
- Learning about new things +2 👍👍👍❤️❤️👍👍
- Open, honest discussions 👍 ❤️👍👍👍❤️❤️
- weather! +111👍👍👍👍🏽❤️👍❤️
- Feeling inspired and excited for the future👍👍👍👍👍👍
- sharing research👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️
- Discovering new use-cases❤️👍👍❤️❤️👍
- learning about about new subjects not known before👍👍❤️❤️👍❤️
- Proximity of the venue to hotels👍👍👍👍👍👍
- Meet all the team-members personally 👍👍👍👍❤️👍
- Great to meet everyone here and learn about the IPFS stack - all the way into the deep end (also, Iceland)👍👍👍⭐️❤️
- Mix of prepared talks _and_ guided discussion 👍👍👍👍👍
- Awesome to get collective alignment and clarify next steps👍👍👍👍❤️
- great to see a push im the routing privacy line of work! ❤️👍👍👍👍
- As a newcomer to the community, learned a lot about the tech, and met many great folks 👍❤️👍👍❤️
- Met people I'd only seen (or communicated with) online! 👍👍👍❤️👍
- Finding similar projects that closely align, to learn from, to integrate with ❤️👍👍👍👍
- so many new people working on making ipfs better +2👍👍👍👍
- got to see loads of people first time since covid ❤️❤️❤️❤️
- Meeting collaborators!!👍👍👍❤️
- Access to experts 👍👍👍👍
- The Location/Iceland/Harpa❤️👍👍👍❤️
- That lots of groups stepped up to make this happen and contribute content and leadership (Fission, number0, Aqua, Mauve, PL) :+1:👍👍❤️👍❤️
- luma was nice +1 ❤️👍❤️❤️
- Infinite supply of coffee ❤️👍👍👍
- Lots of connecting between teams that weren't aware of each others work👍👍👍👍
- COLLABORATION👍👍👍👍
- The coffee wasn't bad! 👍👍❤️👍
- Amazing exposure to the ecosystem ❤️❤️👍👍
- lunch👍👍👍❤️
- Everyone being open-minded to noobish questions, challenges, and having a general goal of curiosity and learning and how to solve existing problems👍👍👍
- Created working groups, have next steps👍 ❤️👍
- great dinner setup with fingerfood and being able to move around and talk to many people👍👍❤️
- Density of the talks👍👍👍
- Unconf track👍👍❤️
- lot's of coffee and drinks yeah!👍👍
- Concrete directions for the future👍👍
- We haven't reached a lot of decisions, but have a better consensus on direction.👍👍
- Fast-paced sync discussions and iteration.👍❤️
- Talking about communism / anarchism with folks👍👍
- impromptu hack sessions👍👍
- Metrics sharing👍👍
- Push to using a netural community tool like Discourse. It felt like a boost of life to a tool that hasn't received a lot of implementer. :+1: :-1: ❤️
- Filled in a lot of blank spots in my knowledge of ipfs and the ecosystem +2👍
- great sessions and interactive discussions around cool topics👍
- Getting questions answered quickly from folks with expert knowledge of IPFS and the ecosystem👍
- Finishing sessions, the planning was awesome!👍
- Swag badges are awesome! ❤️
- intense focus on hard problems
- The variety of talks was great
- whale watching
- "IFPS" on the big screen ✅ :)
- unconf sessions were extremely effective at getting those who weren't sure whether giving a talk was beneficial or not, letting the conf attendees decide that on the spot.

## Lacked 🤔

- Whiteboards +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
- proper dinner (not just snacks) +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 👍
- accommodation quality 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎🏼👎🏼
- Weather! 🌧 🌧 🌧 🌧 🌧 🌧 🌧 ⛅ ⛅ +1 👍
- Wanted to go to multiple tracks at the same time +1 +3 +4 :+1: +1 +1 :+1: ++++++ +2👍👍👍👍👍👍🏼
- Need more really awesome demos of the stuff being built WITH IPFS (missing the impl team) +1 +1 +! +1 +❤️👍 👍 👍👍👍
- more labeling for food: meat, veg, etc +1 +1 +🍌👍👍👍👍🏼
- Would love to have real-time recordings for evening catch up across synchronous tracks +1 +1 +1👍👍👍👍⭐️
- Non-centralized chat. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
- Better integration of remote attending people (sometimes they lacked audio of audience members, which is also on us/the audience?) +1👍👍👍👍👍
- Links to recordings +1 +1 +🍌👍👍
- not enough time to just hack/build +1 +1 +1 👍👍
- Swag hoodies 👍👍👍👍🏼
- it's getting mailed 🙏🙏🏼
- wow, should I sign-up somehow? :)
- yes: https://ipfsthing.slack.com/archives/C03P4AA0RN0/p1657864858062939
- banana stand 🍌🍌🍌
- banana related swag +1 +1 +🍌
- Navigation wasn't clear at the beginning, but then OK + 1 +1👍👍
- Chill out room 👍👍👍
- AV needs to be able to project zoom remote participants. +❤️👍
- It was hard to follow all the places conversations were documented (slack+luuma+discourse+out of bands = confusing) +1 +1
- next time we do it all in ONE hackmd 👍👍
- Daily report-outs from tracks to the wider group? 👍👍
- libp2p signing party👍👍
- what is that supposed to be ⍰
- in person peer discovery
- now we multisig for a private gossip topic
- session on product specific targets 👍👍
- we didn't estimate roadmaps so we don't know if they're feasible 👍👍
- Coding and workshops👍👍
- no implementation named banana yet +1👍
- more discussions around creating commons, making easier for IPFS to be use in altruistic ways +1 👍
- nesting
- Lack of noise outside the hotel. What are you Icelanders doing!? Donuts at 3am.. +1
- More hacking sessions and fun projects 👍
- More chess games
- we did not get an event NFT 👎🏼 🐒/ POAP👎
- we can still do this...
- ✅ https://poap.gallery/event/55265
- share the QR/code(s)!
- dumplings 👍
- More owls +1 👍
- Potentially start later than 9am on the first day given travel and jet lag 👍
- Include times/locations of things like breakfast and lunch on the schedule. 👍
- See if can reduce information sources (website, Discourse, Notion, chat). Should be able to get rid of Discourse or Notion for event logistics. 👍 (👍 remove Notion, use open Discourse)
- Do projector hookup practice before the track starts so not finding out during transitions that someone's laptop doesn't work with the project setup or how to configure one's display properly. 👍
- Potentially have dedicated computers hooked up to projectors and have everyone do zoom share through that so that dealing with screen hookups.👍
- no event-specific sticker/swag 👍
- Yuni has an evil plan here
- Would be great to have ubiquitous links to further collab docs / repos / communities👍
- Night. 🗣
- each site used the same favicon and similar titles so i couldn't tell my browser tabs apart 👍
- night-time 👍
- bigger/reusable cup 👍
- just use DeltaChat 😝
- https://brandedfruit.com/ 🍌
- Non-sliced bananas
- rooms were too large often
- no main venue address at the beginning
- sorting known problems / sourcing priotization feedback in a formalized way
- Visit of the Harpa building
- hangout space with tables, bean bags, coffee, snacks, lots of room to spread out was great. especially location, you pretty much have to walk through it to get to sessions.

## Longed For / STOP 😩

- :sleeping: :sleeping: **Please don't start meetings at 9am! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍** :sleeping: 🍌👍⭐️
- stop running the decentralized web on AWS! +1 +1 +1 +1 -100 +100 +♾️ ❤️ -🍌 +♾️² 🤔👍👍👍+💯
- measuring track seems to indicate it's not that much
- @biglep: There is a place for it - requires more distinction.
- run it wherever it makes sense for you
- yes, UCAN run it everywhere 👍
- :cloud:
- More notice of the event in advance to prepare +1 +1 +1000 +1 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍⭐️👍👍
- seated dinners are cool +1 +1 +1 :+1: 👍👍👍👍 -0👍👍🏼
- 🌍 More discussion about real world use-cases of IPFS +1 +1👍👍👍👍👍👍
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- not enough focus on libp2p 🗣❤️👍 👍🗣
- would be awesome to gain more hands-on experience with techs through workshops or hack-with-me sessions or even contribute-with-me 👍 👍👍👍👍
- more dogfooding ipfs generally 👍 👍 👍👍👍🏼
- not enough lamb +1 +1 +1 +1 -1
- Less Lamb 🐑 -1 🙅 -1
- and puffins +1 +1 +1 👍
- For eating? 👍🏼👍🐥
- :evil: yeah (it's a meme)
- noooo puffins are for befriendingggg
- More time schedules for tourist stuff👍 👍 👍
- Name tags were hard to use / didn't have standard for team/pronouns/handle for folks to follow 👍👍👍
- Conference scheduling tools (e.g. grid of sessions not just tracks, "my sessions", etc) +1👍👍
- luma-like thing that adds sessions to my calendar (with proper timezone, cause i've missed sessions to tz mixup)👍👍👍
- Too many presentations, the maximum should be half of the day presenetation based +1 +1
- not enough horse 🐴🐴
- oat milk👍👍🏼
- but they are amazing to get people to relax +1👍🏼
- Plz fewer scary signs that say not to enter the conference -1
- Easier online participant participation (always hard, but still)👍
- More real food +1
- :awake: :awake: **Please don't end days at midnight** :awake: 👍
- Da̮̰r̳̞̳̦̫͉̬k̷n̰͇͜e̟̭̯̱͎͕̯s̼̟͎̳s̱̲͙͕̪ 🗣

- Sun. 🗣 +! :100: 👍
- be clear about a space to go to that's not a club
- why relax when you have so much cool things to talk about? +1
- they help making up great ideas
- devtools kept coming up but we didn't spend time on them specifically
- lack of info about rust-libp2p
- - Closer restrooms
- Larger breakfast

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