Let's give let's give one more round of applause for all of our speakers this weekend

So I have a surprise surprise talk. It does not actually take the entire ten minutes But kind of a tradition here at bangbangcon is we like to tell the story of how bangbangcon came to be

The origin story, yes That's because bangbangcon is a different conference, and I hope you all have recognized that this weekend We really strive to be both radically inclusive

in our Way that we do our badges the way that we do our restrooms things like that The way that we do our tickets and also we really just try to be a safe space for learning and failing I think we've had some really really great talks about both of those this weekend. I loved the quote in Irvin's talk. I'm sorry if I got your name wrong that education and

entertainment should be Close together all right, and I think that we achieved that here at bangbangcon I want to tell a little bit about how we got started as our closing Speech and I think yeah, oh yeah, I'm gonna make this a lot bigger hold on And I understand that it's still gonna be really small, so I will make sure to read things

Cool so at hackerschool, or I'm sorry as it is now called recurse center We have this internal chat application And Maggie who I believe is somewhere in the audience I was asking hey is anyone coming for alumni week

Which happens at recurse center next week actually? And Alex Klemmer our organizer who is still somewhere over the Atlantic Said you know hopefully you know we'll see yes, this is in 2014. Thank you specifically what Like early like January of 2014. Yeah, just like a few months before the very first bangbangcon

So Ian Whitlock one of the recurse centers Said yeah, I'm trying to find a my boss said if I can find a conference in New York That's at least semi work related my company will pay for my flight And he'd say oh yeah, you know that would that would save me a bunch of cash so

Alex says well, why don't you just make up a conference and pretend you're going? And then go It's foolproof right you know nobody nobody would see through that And and Julia Evans our Last speaker there said you know you might be able to organize a real conference by May if you you know if you really wanted

to have no time And Alex said you know I'll even do it for you because Julia at the time was under strict orders to not organize any more conferences And so so Alex suggested that we call it Julia Evans blog posts con And Allison who I believes in the audience summary out there. She is I said I would attend the hell out of that

And asked for the CFB so thank you for being our very first call for a call for proposals and so so Julia says You know you must submit a talk and the requirements you must contain at least three exclamation marks in the title fortunately We've relaxed that a little bit

But but not really And and decides to call it exclamation mark con or bang bang bang con So that's the secret history of bang bang con is actually there were three exclamation points at the beginning So Maggie says you know we should pronounce it bang bang bang con Julia says that she would actually go to that conference surprise

And so Alex says okay well now we need a website And Ian says we you know bang bang con is a little easier from round And so they they decide that they're gonna make bang bang con and Alex says great now we need you know space and you know a chair and everything and

Julia writes our very first CFB which is that it's a programming conference about what excites us in programming and that still Shows up today. I think it's about amazing things surprising things fun things It's about strange things and silly things and heartwarming things. Did you find a super weird bug?

Have you learned a programming language that kind of blew your mind? Did you teach some kids to program and did they find something amazing? Did your program make you giggle? We want to hear about it You should give a talk at bang bang bang con. Oh, there's still three exclamation points there It has to be program related have an exclamation mark in the title Upworthy file submissions are also encouraged. Thankfully we've gotten rid of that part. I think I you won't believe this one weird GCC bug

And then she apologizes because apparently she got carried away. I never apologize for that kind of thing Julia. This is amazing But she was really apologizing because like I said, she was under strict orders to not organize any more conferences

so Alex says okay, yeah bang bang con is easier to say I'm gonna go get the website and You know, we start talking about okay. Well, are we gonna have tracks? Is it gonna be single track etc? And Alex says okay I'm about to you know, I'm about to register and this next slide is very important for all of you

Because he registered the website for five years So although us organizers haven't talked about bang bang con 2017 yet We at least still have the website. So there's a really good chance it's gonna happen, right? Yeah So he goes he goes to register the website for five years and is now the proud owner owner of bang bang con calm and everyone's like cool and he's like wait, I

Just registered bang bang corn dot-com by accident for five years And everybody died. Oh, yeah, my favorite Alan at the bottom here says don't worry. It's just a pivot

So surprisingly we are actually a programming conference on a farming conference Although we actually did make use of the bang bang corn name any of you who are sponsor related that is now our official Corporate title so all of the sponsors wrote out checks to bang bang corn LLC

So at least we're making some good use of that name that we have for another what three years. So So there's that And this is the last slide but but uh, Nick finally said yeah Well, we'll host you it at recurse Center, which is at the time was called hacker school

And whoops it turned into this So, thank you all for attending bang bang con 2016 Could I get the the organizers up here on stage just for a final recognition?

Yeah, Maggie Julia. Why don't you come up as well? This is all of the current and past organizers Minus Alex plumber who like I said is still somewhere out over the ocean

So really what I want to say is thank you to coming say thank you for coming to this conference

Which started out as a complete joke? And has turned into what I hope is one of the more inclusive And radically available conferences in the world and I think that is a wonderful story So on that note it actually isn't that hard to start your own conference

So if you have something that you're excited about if you have something that you're interested in and you want a bunch of people who? Interested in that same thing to show up and celebrate that thing with you, which is an amazing feeling We are always happy to help Talk to people who are interested in starting conferences or who are running conferences in in this space or any other space

That want to make it more inclusive and more available. So thank you all for coming It's been an absolutely wonderful weekend and unless somebody else has something to say I Think that's it. Thank you for coming to bang bang con 2016