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What do you want to have happen with Keycon 2025 (and beyond)?

Stay the course - NovelKeys runs it in Germany
30 (30.3%)
Keycon goes back to the community
69 (69.7%)

Total Members Voted: 99

Voting closed: Thu, 06 June 2024, 10:36:43

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Offline mgsickler

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Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote (Archive)
« on: Mon, 03 June 2024, 10:36:43 »
We hear you loud and clear, so we wanted to put this up for a community vote.

If you would want to keep things as is, and have us host Keycon 2025 in Germany, awesome. If you would rather the event go back to the community, no hard feelings. Put your vote here and we will follow suit. Poll is up for 3 days.

If the event goes back to the community - for those interested in Germany, we will still make this happen. We will just transition the event into The Keyboard Meetup Abroad 2025.
« Last Edit: Thu, 13 June 2024, 16:21:16 by HoffmanMyster »

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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 03 June 2024, 11:16:56 »
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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 03 June 2024, 11:59:47 »
Vielen Dank, dass Sie uns das Privileg der Stimmabgabe gewährt haben. Alles, was dazu nötig war, war ein öffentlicher Aufschrei gegen ein paar Anweisungen, die wir befolgen sollten!

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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 03 June 2024, 18:20:14 »
fwiw i think a germany event would be great, but since so much of the english speaking community is in the US it's tough to justify it as the marquee event of the year for me
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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 03 June 2024, 19:37:16 »
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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 03 June 2024, 22:06:22 »
+1 for Germany and voted as such.

I hope the votes continue for future years because I will not be stepping foot in Florida. Not as long as their current legislature keeps choosing to enact the laws they do. Particularly the ones that endanger our LGBT community members, of which there are many.

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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 05 June 2024, 13:45:54 »
+1 for voting specifically because "not Florida" as well.
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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 06 June 2024, 10:39:01 »
+1 for voting specifically because "not Florida" as well.

Just FYI: the choices are between (1) NK continuing to host Keycon or (2) NK gives ownership of the event to the community to decide.
If NK hosts, it will be in Germany in 2025 followed by somewhere in the US in 2026, and they are looking at Tampa as a possibility.
If it goes back to the community, then there will be further discussion and exploration of who manages it and where it will be hosted.

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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 06 June 2024, 12:19:36 »
+1 for NK this year in Germany

For future years I'd like to see maybe NK acting as a co-host and community members bid to host, Olympics style. GH voting becomes the Olympic selection committee, NK helps with coordinating logistics with the host bidder.

also realizing I'm late to this post lolllll
« Last Edit: Thu, 06 June 2024, 12:26:07 by keebnewb »

Offline jacobsmirror

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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 06 June 2024, 13:05:27 »
Alrighty, friends. Based on the results of this poll, the KeyCon brand and responsibility for hosting the event comes back to the community. This is unfortunate, given that NK did a great job of bringing back the event in 2024 and planned to continue it in the US again in 2026 and beyond. That said, Mike and team have always done right by the community, and if this is what the community wants, then NK will honor the request and do the right thing again, as they have many times in the past. I would also like to thank GMK for offering to host Keycon in Germany, which I’m sure would have been a great event (and may continue under a different label with NK).

I am discussing options with a team of community members, some of whom were involved in the most recent and earlier KeyCon events, to structure a plan to take over organizing the event on behalf of the community. More details will be forthcoming once these plans have solidified.

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Re: Keycon 2025 Poll - Please Vote
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 06 June 2024, 13:19:38 »
I'd like to echo Jacbosmirror's sentiments above regarding the amazing job that the NK team did bringing Keycon back this year. By all accounts, it was a fantastic experience! Extra special thanks to Nephlock for all his hard work.

NK and GMK are respectively among the most supportive vendors and suppliers in the hobby, and I hope that they remain involved in whatever capacity they like, in whatever form Keycon takes going forward.

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