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<p>W.O.W.</p>
<p>So, I kind of am in love with the FORCE conference I just went to. </p>
<p>So, I kind of am in love with the <a href="https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2016" target="_blank">FORCE conference</a> I just went to. FORCE2016 is the annual conference from an organization called FORCE11 (ha, the year they started the org.). This year, 500 people came from around the world: researchers, librarians, software developers, large scale repositories, open science advocates, and everyone in between. It was not only a very diverse conference in terms of home country and job, but also in the way the conference and program was run.</p>
<p>One of the coolest things I have ever seen: in addition to the MULTITUDE of tweets around the event (seriously everyone was so active, it was amazing), they hired a company to take visual notes!! While eveverything was going on!! Everyone, the gist of their talks, panels, lightning talks, EVERYTHING! Such a great idea and it produced a great visual overview of the con!</p>
<p>First, one of the coolest things I have ever seen: in addition to the MULTITUDE of tweets around the event (seriously everyone was so active, it was amazing), they hired a company to take visual notes!! While eveverything was going on!! Everyone, the gist of their talks, panels, lightning talks, EVERYTHING! Such a great idea and it produced a great visual overview of the con!</p>
<div align="center"><img src="../../img/force16_illust.jpg" height=50% width=50%></div>
<p class="caption">Taken from <a href="https://twitter.com/PCS_Armory/status/722499116643721216" target="_blank">this tweet</a> from Portland Center Stage</p>
<p><a href="" target="_blank">LINK</a></p>
<p>There was a great program of people. I'm going to highlight my two favourites. The first was from Stephen Pinker surrounding how <em>absolutely astoundingly dumb</em> academic writing as become. If you watch nothing else today, please let it be this:</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eI41UsSxATU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>The other talk in my top 3 was from Laura Carter</p>
<div align="center"><img src="../../img/force16_indig.jpg" height=100% width=100%></div>