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Making Conferences Magical: The Story Behind the Art Plotter

Michael Lange
September 10, 2019

Making Conferences Magical: The Story Behind the Art Plotter

How is it that HashiCorp produces such amazing conferences? What the heck is an art plotter? Learn a bit more about the inner workings of Experiential Design and Marketing as well as how the art plotter installation is orchestrated with HashiCorp tools.

Michael Lange

September 10, 2019
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  1. What makes the plotter special? ▪ Unlike any other conference

    swag ▪ Can make unique artwork, makes it feel personal ▪ The plotter itself serves as a performance ▪ Surprising and delighting!
  2. “Every year I think we peak, but then we outdo

    ourselves.” – Maybe a real quote from someone. I’ll never say.
  3. 1. Two plotters 2. Two tablets 3. A laptop 4.

    Another computer 5. IoT buttons 6. 900 sheets of paper 7. 45 Pens 8. Magnets ✨
  4. 1. Packer 2. Terraform 3. Consul 4. Nomad 5. Fabio

    6. A gaggle of VMs in GCP 7. A webhooks service 8. A preview service 9. Two plot dispatch jobs 10. A local AxiDraw state machine service 11. Algorithmic data art