Monitorama PDX 2015 - Closing Plenary

Looking back on the numbers that measure and describe Monitorama PDX 2015.

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2. Measuring an Event
   

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3. 4
   Total number of Monitorama events we’ve held.
   

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4. 2
   Number of Monitorama events that have been held in Portland.
   

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5. 500
   Number of attendees at the event last year in Portland.
   

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6. 550
   Number of registrations when we sold out this year.
   

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7. 570
   Number of registrations when we sold out “again” this year.
   

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8. 582
   Number of actual registrations when we opened the doors on Monday.
   

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9. 278
   Number of folks on the waiting list.
   

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10. 590
    Maximum number of seats in this theater as dictated by the Fire Marshall.
    

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11. 10
    Number of Angel tickets sold for charity.
    

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12. 9707
    Number of dollars donated to charity on behalf of Angel ticket buyers.
    

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13. 18
    Number of goals scored during our Sunday Funday soccer match.
    

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14. 1
    Number of times I was scored on by my own daughter.
    

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15. 45
    Average amount of minutes spent waiting in registration lines last year.
    

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16. 5
    Average amount of minutes spent waiting in registration lines last year.
    

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17. 8
    Number of discrete steps taken to address the registration line problem.
    

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18. 25
    Number of full-length talks given this week.
    

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19. 28
    Number of speakers presenting full-length talks this week.
    

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20. 1
    Number of ping pong paddles broken in competition Monday night.
    

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21. 2
    Number of ping pong paddles seen in flight Monday night.
    

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22. 4
    Number of innocent bystanders hit in the head by one of my smashes.
    

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23. 0
    Number of windows broken in ping pong competition this week.
    

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24. 2
    Number of Open Source monitoring projects announced at Monitorama this week.
    

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25. 6
    Number of Graphite pull requests merged by Jeff Schroder at Monitorama this week.
    

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26. 37
    Number of sponsors at Monitorama this year.
    

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27. 442
    Maximum number of concurrent users on the guest wifi network this week.
    

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28. 2
    Number of times I cried on stage this week.
    

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29. 45
    Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput purchased for this week.
    

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30. 55
    Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput upgraded to, after Monday
    morning.
    

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31. 70
    Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput upgraded to for free temporarily
    by our wifi provider.
    

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32. 0
    Number of backups completed after public shamings.
    

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33. 129
    Number of hugs distributed this week.
    

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34. 600
    Number of Blue Star donuts served.
    

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35. 1.5
    Number of Blue Star donuts I’ve eaten this morning.
    

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36. 1
    Number of slide decks prepared by me during talks today.
    

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37. 23
    Number of conversations held about scaling this event
    

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38. 4
    Number of bottles of liquor received as gifts (thank you).
    

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39. 1
    Number of bottles of liquor consumed this week.
    

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40. 2
    Number of Monitorama events planned for 2015.
    

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41. 3
    Number of Monitorama events planned for 2016.
    

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42. 0
    Estimated number of gifted bottles of liquor remaining after 2016.
    

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43. 1
    Number of other Monitorama-like events in Portland this year that you should attend...
    

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44. AutomaCon
    The Infrastructure as Code Conference
    September 15-16, 2015 Portland, OR
    automacon.io
    The smart people at Heavy Water are organizing a new conference this September in Portland.
    I’m advising them on the event, so if you like Monitorama and work with Infrastructure as
    Code, you’ll probably love AutomaCon.
    

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45. I’m the author of the Monitoring with Graphite book being published by O’Reilly. I encourage
    you to check out the early release, particularly since I’m working on the troubleshooting
    primitives chapter now, with the scaling chapter coming up after that.
    

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46. Thank You
    

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