Atmosphereconf 2026 survey questions and other post conf ideas

I wrote up a few notes on what needs to be done to wrap up AtmosphereConf 2026, and then shared some notes on what basic research might happen for AtmosphereConf 2027 now, changes to the website, news, and blog, and the kick off of more regional event meetups.

Here are a few of the conference wrap up tasks.

• cleaning up VODs: lots of people built VOD players but the source videos still need some work in cutting dead air, matching up events, and so on — this ideally will all be reflected on the website
• shipping t-shirts: we need a final tally and do stuff packing bags with leftover stickers
• email to all attendees: we’ll point to various resources, ask for feedback, and include a link to a feedback survey
• finalizing all bills and payments and producing some financial summaries

If you have suggestions on questions to include in the survey, please do leave a comment.

We can also run further surveys in the future.

2027

There are no set plans or organizing crew for 2027. Sharing details from the 2026 wrap up will be helpful input.

There seems to be a strong demand to have a global conference again, and as I’ve written elsewhere and done in the past for other communities, rotating continents is one way to do it.

Personally, I have an interest in forming a co-op entity to be responsible for a variety of things.

That doesn’t block early research. We can look to put together a Grist database where we gather venue availability and pricing for a 500-750 person conference in late March.

AtmosphereConf Website, News & Blog

The AtmosphereConf website was a lovely example of community contributions. We could move the 2025 conference there as an archive, plus the AHOY videos.

A shared community calendar for ATProto and adjacent events could be a good feature.

Please file issues (or PRs!) with other ideas you have https://github.com/ATProtocol-Community/atmosphereconf

The news.atmosphereconf.org site remaining as conference news is probably a good idea.

The atprotocol.dev blog has over 400 subscribers in ghost. Many of those are Tech Talks - which could also move to the AtmosphereConf website?

Moving the ghost blog to something else and perhaps sharing community-wide announcements is a thing we can look at.

Regional Events

A lot of regions are likely to be kicking off soon, this would be a great way to keep momentum.

Tynan gathered folks at the Conf. Nick put up a listing at atproto.camp.

As mentioned above, a shared calendar could be a thing.

Other than running events for a couple of months, what else do regional events need?

I started writing more, about upcoming events and new and revived working groups.

There is a lot that can be done.