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July 21st, 2012 in Concord, New Hampshire.

The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in New York has been the seminal event for professionals and companies engaged with the challenges and opportunities of new publishing technologies and business models. This sell-out conference brings together smart, highly motivated people from a wide range of companies and organizations to discuss innovative business models, share hard-won knowledge, and explore the strategic objectives of an ever-changing industry.

Literary Death Match, co-created by Todd Zuniga, marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol’s judging, and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare.

Each episode of this competitive, humor-centric reading series features a thrilling mix of four famous and emerging authors (all representing a literary publication, press or concern — online, in print or live) who perform their most electric writing in seven minutes or less before a lively audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After each pair of readings, the judges — focused on literary merit, performance and intangibles — take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary about each story, then select their favorite to advance to the finals.

The two finalists then compete in the Literary Death Match finale, which trades in the show’s literary sensibility for an absurd and comical climax to determine who takes home the Literary Death Match crown.

The Book Stops Here is a literary party night held every second Monday of the month, except when it’s not (and we’ll tell you). We used to be known as To Hell with the Lighthouse before we submitted to the pun.

You: You get three or four brilliant and short readings from some great authors that we really rate, for FREE! You just have to show up at 7.30pm, have a drink, and listen. You even get to talk in the breaks, and listen to Northern Soul and girl groups in a beautiful bar.

"Hey Kickstarter! We're organizing XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon this September 13-16th.

XOXO is a celebration of disruptive creativity. We want to take all the independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love — the makers, craftspeople, musicians, filmmakers, comic book artists, game designers, hardware hackers — and bring them together with the technologists building the platforms that make it possible. If you have an audience and a good idea, nothing’s standing in your way.

XOXO is in three parts:

Conference (Saturday – Sunday). Talks from artists and creative technologists around the country that are breaking new ground.
Market (Saturday – Sunday). A large marketplace with a tightly-curated list of the best of Portland's arts and tech scenes, sharing and selling their work, with food supplied by the best of our thriving food cart scene…"

"Guest blogger Courtney Stanton explains how she organized a game developer conference with 50% women speakers." <-- correct approach. Hidden agenda, not a PR talking point.

Held on a weekend, no panels.

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MailMate: better name for emails drag-n-dropped as files [#256] — from benny (freron / MailMate Events) —

→ State changed from “new” to “accepted”

The default name is based on the internal unique ID of the message which is practical when I want to locate the original message in MailMate, but I can see that the average user is not going to find that very useful :-)

One problem with an alternative naming scheme is that it is more likely that multiple messages are going to have the same name, but that can be handled in the standard Mac OS X way (adding a number).

The simple and powerful way to implement this is to allow a format string to be defined for the filename used. The default should perhaps just be a nicely formatted subject. This one is taken from the display of the subject in the messages outline:

${subject.prefix:+${subject.prefix} }${subject.blob:+[${subject.blob}] }${subject.body}

Most of the time, a simple ${subject} would work just as well, but I dislike extraneous space in subject lines :-)

Adding sender and date would make it pretty long in general, but you would be able to customize it if you want that too.

For the record, the currently hardcoded name could be done with the following format string:

${#body-part-id}

Maybe I should also let .eml be part of the format string since some users may prefer .msg or something else.

I'll update this ticket with any progress on this issue. Comments are welcome. Format strings are “documented” here.

Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences
June 17-21, 2013