FW: Snap! rules the conference

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Fractal clothing.  Wow.

 > From: Brian
 > Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:01:26 -0700
 >
 > It's Monday, two days after the end of the conference.  It's raining.
 > 
 > Funny.  All through the conference it was like 90 degrees, and as soon as the
 > conference ended it jumped down to 60, and it's been hovering around there
 > ever since.
 > 
 > In the three days of the conference (Wed evening to Sat afternoon) I think
 > there was just one session time during which I could actually choose what to
 > attend; all the other times there was something about Snap! or BJC going on.
 > Dan and Jens and I were superstars.  Half a dozen other people were presenting
 > Snap!-based work, either curriculum or extensions to handle various devices or
 > external databases or whatever.  One connected Snap! to an embroidery machine
 > and showed off fractal clothing.
 > 
 > In a way it was too bad; I didn't have enough opportunity to find out what
 > people are doing with Scratch, which is supposed to be the point of the
 > conference.  I did see an experimental port of Scratch to the iPad using Adobe
 > Air to translate the Flash to Javascript.  The closing plenary was a panel
 > about the Scratch community with two grownups and three kids -- although the
 > kids are getting pretty old; Joren is an MIT sophomore and Connor is about to
 > start at Colorado (good because he gets to work with Mike Eisenberg, bad
 > because it's way too close to his parents).  I don't know how old the third
 > one is but she's been a Scratcher since forever so probably about the same.
 > 
 > The other plenaries were mostly really boring.  So boring that I tended to
 > doze off during them.  I should have set my alarm for an hour later.  Except
 > for the "zeroth" one by guest of honor Cynthia Solomon, talking about Logo
 > history and its lessons for Scratch.  Cynthia is brilliant and insightful,
 > although a little disorganized as a speaker.  (She herself kept noting that
 > she was digressing.)