A nice video interview with me for a Montgomery Co. public television show. (click the image) New to this blog? Then this probably isn't the post I would choose you start with. This post is a bit anemic compared to my others, and I've included it here mostly as a means of memorializing Scrum Con V for myself. Jump to a previous post for a more typical example of my blogging project. Preamble aside, I was under the weather for Scrum Con V in 2024 and so didn't get to take any photos or run any games. That was a hard blow for me and has left me having to dispense with the usual deep-dive commentary this time around. I did hang around and helped over the weekend, glad handed, and generally delighted in both the familiar and fresh faces I saw. We pushed the boundaries further by expanding the con from one day to two, renting out the entire Civic Center, and sold out of every single badge once again--a proud Scrum Con tradition from year one. Below are some photos snapped by...
The Second Saturday Scrum Club rejoined the fray on April 8, organizing and hosting Scrum Con IV in Silver Spring, Maryland. Although Scrum Con III was a surprisingly successful virtual convention in 2021 that took advantage of its online format to invite all sorts of participants we couldn't have otherwise (Dirk the Dice of Grognard Files in the UK ran a game, and I interviewed wargame/RPG historian Jon Peterson via livestream ), Scrum Con V marked our return to an in-person format. Because Scrum Con 2020 ducked right under the pandemic lockdown on the last weekend of February that year, we were anxious to see if anybody would remember us. Turns out any fears were misplaced...because Scrum Con sold out again this year! In fact, every in-person convention we've organized has sold out, but this year's Scrum Con IV was almost 70% sold out of its 225 badges in the very first week, a pace that frankly caught us off-guard. About a week before the show, we had sold enough b...