Idea: “Conferences as D&D tabletops”: you may be able to better organize a conference or convention by borrowing a tool from tabletop roleplaying games—players collaborate by directly manipulating or modifying a 2D map. It seems to me like this could be low-friction and flexibly handles a lot of things that existing ‘conware’ design patterns don’t handle well.
It also sounds like a piece of paper, or a map, or a person having vivid hallucinations before falling asleep. But unless you have a whiteboard which can be copied among several hundred people and teleport and be rolled up and fit in a jean pocket, which lets you timetravel so you can look at what used to be on the whiteboard or look at what people might write on it in the future, or ‘a whiteboard’ which is neither white (because there’s a colored map printed on it) nor ‘a board’ (because it’s arbitrarily many), which has a ledgerbook next to itself which writes itself, and so on, I would suggest that this does not ‘sound like a whiteboard’ to most people. (No, not even a Biblically-accurate whiteboard.)
Idea: “Conferences as D&D tabletops”: you may be able to better organize a conference or convention by borrowing a tool from tabletop roleplaying games—players collaborate by directly manipulating or modifying a 2D map. It seems to me like this could be low-friction and flexibly handles a lot of things that existing ‘conware’ design patterns don’t handle well.
This sounds like a whiteboard to me
It also sounds like a piece of paper, or a map, or a person having vivid hallucinations before falling asleep. But unless you have a whiteboard which can be copied among several hundred people and teleport and be rolled up and fit in a jean pocket, which lets you timetravel so you can look at what used to be on the whiteboard or look at what people might write on it in the future, or ‘a whiteboard’ which is neither white (because there’s a colored map printed on it) nor ‘a board’ (because it’s arbitrarily many), which has a ledgerbook next to itself which writes itself, and so on, I would suggest that this does not ‘sound like a whiteboard’ to most people. (No, not even a Biblically-accurate whiteboard.)
(Previously in this genre.)
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