{"id":6679,"date":"2012-09-15T18:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T01:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2012-09-15T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T01:01:42","slug":"what-i-got-out-of-thatcampsocal-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2012\/09\/15\/what-i-got-out-of-thatcampsocal-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What I got out of THATCampSoCal 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve attended more THATCamps than I can keep track of now.\u00a0 THATCamp Prime and THATCampBayArea and THATCampSoCal are standard annual events for me, with a few others working out in conjunction with other conferences that I attend along the way.\u00a0 I’m used to the drill of TC and as a result I’ve even begun to wonder whether the familiarity of the unconference experience meant a loss of use-value for me.\u00a0 You see, I easily become weary of the conversations about the abysmal academic market or the lack of funding for graduate student projects or the lack of women in tech-fields.\u00a0 Not to say that these aren’t important conversations, I just don’t enjoy the repetition very much–I want to start the revolution, not just talk about what needs changing.<\/p>\n

And while there was some repetition of some of those typical conversations at this THATCamp, I found it to to still be quite useful for me, and this is why:<\/p>\n