Thread by @QuinnyPig

And it's showtime! #monktoberfest

"This conference originally started as a joke." --@sogrady Just like @awsreinvent! #monktoberfest

I dig this conference. Thanks to @linode for the "Trappist" sponsorship level. The video is sponsored by @awscloud. Lunch is sponsored by @oraclecloud so consider dining elsewhere if you're me. #monktoberfest

"If folks are wearing a red lanyard, that means please don't photograph them." If they're wearing an Oracle Legal corporate ID, you physically cannot photograph them; they won't show up in the image. #monktoberfest

Closed Captioning is provided by White Coat and sponsored by Cloud Foundry. The accessibility game is ON FREAKING POINT here at #monktoberfest

"We at @redmonk are amateurs at throwing conferences" which, while intended as a 'please don't yell at us' disclaimer, should make every corporate conference organizer deeply and profoundly ashamed. #monktoberfest

"We have a code of conduct. We request that you read it." monktoberfest.com/conduct #monktoberfest

And now, @hadleywickham takes the first talk slot with "Letter to a young maintainer." #monktoberfest

"The R community is different" @hadleywickham tells us, understating the situation massively. #monktoberfest

R is definitely strange. I view it as "Excel overdosing on caffeine." Even pirates can take or leave R; they like it just fine but they vastly prefer the C. #monktoberfest

"You do not have a moral duty to listen to everyone." Advice on Twitter. No, seriously, that's the context @hadleywickham is giving. He's completely correct. #monktoberfest

"I'm muting lots of people" says @hadleywickham and I am seething. #monktoberfest

"You aren't how many Github stars you have" says @hadleywickham, correctly. "You are not how many Twitter follows you have" he says next, descending into a personal attack on me. #monktoberfest

And now @mkguliford takes the stage. She's a PhD candidate at Tufts university here to talk about "Teaching for Knowledge." I thought most people biased for "Teaching for Tenure." #monktoberfest

And starts by calling out @joeemison for a "How to Fold a Fitted Sheet" slide. "I came here to fight." I want to hang out with her already; she's my kind of people. #monktoberfest