NerdCon: Stories 2016 edition
project history · status: past edition (2016) · last event: setback (2016-09-16) · last mentioned: 2016-12-01 (said on 2016-12-02, implied)
Parts: Hank suggests viewers check out NerdCon: Stories 2016 at nerdcon.com (2016)
Told alongside: Hank invites viewers to come to NerdCon: Nerdfighteria in Boston (2016) · NerdCon: Nerdfighteria 2017 edition (Boston, February): celebrating ten years of Vlogbrothers · NerdCon: Stories 2015 edition (Minneapolis, October 9-10)
About: NerdCon: Stories
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-29 | setback | Hank says he can't attend NerdCon: Stories this year (2016), but John and a list of guests will; more at nerdcon.com. | Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) 00:03:09 |
| 2016-08-26 | milestone | Hank suggests people near Minneapolis who can't go to Boston attend NerdCon: Stories, where John will be but Hank will not. (hedged) | I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes 00:03:08 |
| 2016-08-30 | milestone | John will be at NerdCon: Stories in Minneapolis on October 14-15, speaking on panels, recording a live podcast and talking about mental illness and creativity. | My Body Is a Broken Temple 00:02:45 |
| 2016-09-16 | setback | Hank reports NerdCon: Stories 2016 sold about a thousand tickets against a budget of 3,000 attendees, so it will lose money but will go ahead. (hedged) | Let's Talk about Failure 00:01:13 |
| 2016-12-01 (said on 2016-12-02, implied) | looked back | Hank says the conference business is weird and difficult and he is still dealing with some of the financial fallout from NerdCon: Stories, but it is worth it when people say VidCon or NerdCon is one of the best times of their year. | See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) video description |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2016-07-29 · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) — ask: Hank suggests viewers who want to love things like that check out NerdCon: Stories, the conference he built with a team; last year (2015) was fantastic. (hedged) — 00:02:57
- 2016-07-29 · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) — announcement: Hank won't attend NerdCon: Stories this year (2016), for reasons that will become clear on next week's (week of 1 August 2016) Dear Hank and John or in a long video just posted on hankschannel. — 00:03:09
- 2016-07-29 · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) — announcement: Hank says John will be at NerdCon: Stories, along with guests including John Scalzi, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dylan Marron, M. T. Anderson, John Darnielle, Maureen Johnson and Patrick Rothfuss. — 00:03:23
- 2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — announcement: Hank notes that tickets for NerdCon: Stories and NerdCon: Nerdfighteria are available now at nerdcon.com. — video description
- 2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank says he helps with NerdCon: Stories' content and is jealous at every meeting; he does it for other people and also for himself. — 00:03:25
- 2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — ask: John points to ticket info in the description, apologizes for not traveling more because he wants to finish the draft, and hopes to see many viewers in Minneapolis, Boston or Cleveland. (hedged) — 00:03:08