TProphet on Nostr: DEF CON is the kind of place where if you show up with an idea and you're willing to ...

DEF CON is the kind of place where if you show up with an idea and you're willing to put in the work, they make a space and let you try it out. That's how we started Queercon (npub18x0…x32y). We were kicking the idea around the Alexis Park pool, and DJ Keith Myers said if we found a space he would play. So I asked Jeff Moss (npub12ts…x422) if DEF CON (npub1dqd…8xy4) would give us a space. He gave us a room, the Goons made that space safe (which was very much needed back then) and the rest is history. We dreamed it, and DEF CON created a space for us to do it, sometimes profoundly changing the lives of the thousands of people it continues to touch (and for which I take absolutely no credit; I'm only a founder emeritus these days).