PlanetsCon 2017

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PlanetsCon 2017 was held in Espoo on August 18-20. The common room holds 15-25 attendees.

Location

This PlanetsCon was at Nuuksiontie 83, Espoo. Karhunpesä is a big log cabin on the border of the Nuuksio national park, in a beautiful and somewhat isolated setting. It is perfect for a conference, with a fireplace, good BBQ setup, sauna (obviously! It's Finland) and a big palju (outdoors heated bath tub). This facility allows people to bring their own food and drinks, with optional catering.

There's conference space for up to 15-25 people. In addition, up to 18 guests can stay overnight, which allows for proper late-night conferencing.

There are really nice national park hiking paths starting right next to the place. For example a good day trek option for your significant others.

Price

Depending on how many nights the attendees will be at the Venue, the cost was between 70€ (Saturday conference + beers + BBQ) and 170€ (add Friday night and Sunday night stay). This covers the venue cost, food cost and beer cost. Karhunpesä being an overnight booking with lodging brings the cost up, but on the other hand as it removes the need to book a hotel for Sat-Sun the deal might actually be very good for travelers coming from far away.

Traveller Information

The event organizers organized lifts for those traveling from far away. For those who drive, there was plenty of parking at the facility. Alternatively, there's a bus stop quite close, and the bus ride from the Espoo Center Railway Station is only about 30 minutes.

Schedule

As with most conferences of this sort, the schedule is fluid until it's happened.

Friday night – An unofficial get-together at the cabin.
Saturday 09:30-18:00 EET – Conference day! Sessions start at 10:00. Will be streamed.
Saturday 18:00 - Sunday 04:00 EET (or whenever the last attendee passes out) – BBQ, beer, sauna and palju. Late night tactical analysis. Will not be streamed.
Sunday 12:00 EET - 14:00 EET – Breakfast, more BBQ and continuation sessions. Might be partly streamed.

Presentations

	Iso--T : How to Improve Your Planets Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiGLFVJhU54 Slide deck - here
	Smn : Some Thoughts About Diplomacy Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkG6EwjJq2E Slide deck - here
	Iso--T : Some Serious Thoughts About Early Economy Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4VoPKjS9EE Slide deck - here
	McNimble : Creating plugins, presentation and workshop Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmO9MjMFOlw Slide deck - here
	Big Beefer : State of the Nuniverse Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XXEnmxPSow Slide deck - here New RNG Combat Results - here Official announcement of the enhancements - here
	Commander Koski : The Infinite Views on Diplomacy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Killing You Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XXEnmxPSow Slide deck - here
	Qinic : Pulling data from the API and mangling interesting stuff out of it Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGN18I8pwh0 Slide deck - here Example code - here This was related to the message history tool Qinic created and announced here.
	Whisperer / Gnerphk : Documentation status. This is a 13 minute pre-recorded presentation Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LpzYdIBpwI Slide deck - here
	Emork : A fun test of Planets.nu knowledge Setup presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezEX1_KMqrc Main presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciynjgpQlJU

If any of the presenters wish to add anything to their presentation entries (notes, slide deck or an additional video), please inform the Documentation Editors.

Info Channels

Main streaming channel – Presentations - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6i7o763ejZcHa72tso99Hg
Organization channel - https://planetscon2017.net/
FaceBook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1286639251428480/ for banter and pictures.

Other Activities

In addition to the presentations, the PlanetsCon attendees did many of the usual things.

Eat

Drink

Be Merry

and, most importantly, good conversation about Planets.nu

Wrap Up

Thus ends another excellent PlanetsCon.

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the efforts of Smn , Iso--T and Commander Koski in putting this together. We would also like to thank the presenters, without whom there would be no PlanetsCon. Most especially, we would like to thank Tim Wisseman ( @Tim Wisseman ) for creating this wonderful game and Joshua ( @Joshua ) for providing a modern interface for it.

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