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
3. 4 Total number of Monitorama events we’ve held.
4. 2 Number of Monitorama events that have been held in Portland.
5. 500 Number of attendees at the event last year in Portland.
6. 550 Number of registrations when we sold out this year.
7. 570 Number of registrations when we sold out “again” this year.
8. 582 Number of actual registrations when we opened the doors on Monday.
9. 278 Number of folks on the waiting list.
10. 590 Maximum number of seats in this theater as dictated by the Fire Marshall.
11. 10 Number of Angel tickets sold for charity.
12. 9707 Number of dollars donated to charity on behalf of Angel ticket buyers.
13. 18 Number of goals scored during our Sunday Funday soccer match.
14. 1 Number of times I was scored on by my own daughter.
15. 45 Average amount of minutes spent waiting in registration lines last year.
16. 5 Average amount of minutes spent waiting in registration lines last year.
17. 8 Number of discrete steps taken to address the registration line problem.
18. 25 Number of full-length talks given this week.
19. 28 Number of speakers presenting full-length talks this week.
20. 1 Number of ping pong paddles broken in competition Monday night.
21. 2 Number of ping pong paddles seen in flight Monday night.
22. 4 Number of innocent bystanders hit in the head by one of my smashes.
23. 0 Number of windows broken in ping pong competition this week.
24. 2 Number of Open Source monitoring projects announced at Monitorama this week.
25. 6 Number of Graphite pull requests merged by Jeff Schroder at Monitorama this week.
26. 37 Number of sponsors at Monitorama this year.
27. 442 Maximum number of concurrent users on the guest wifi network this week.
28. 2 Number of times I cried on stage this week.
29. 45 Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput purchased for this week.
30. 55 Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput upgraded to, after Monday morning.
31. 70 Number of megabits-per-second of download throughput upgraded to for free temporarily by our wifi provider.
32. 0 Number of backups completed after public shamings.
33. 129 Number of hugs distributed this week.
34. 600 Number of Blue Star donuts served.
35. 1.5 Number of Blue Star donuts I’ve eaten this morning.
36. 1 Number of slide decks prepared by me during talks today.
37. 23 Number of conversations held about scaling this event
38. 4 Number of bottles of liquor received as gifts (thank you).
39. 1 Number of bottles of liquor consumed this week.
40. 2 Number of Monitorama events planned for 2015.
41. 3 Number of Monitorama events planned for 2016.
42. 0 Estimated number of gifted bottles of liquor remaining after 2016.
43. 1 Number of other Monitorama-like events in Portland this year that you should attend...
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.
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.
46. Thank You