Yes, the increased flexibility is something to highlight...

- We have an 'extended weekend' edition. That's weekend plus one day if you can convince your employer; If not, then just do > 14 weekends.

- We'll have a rolling release; you can pause the retreat, and come back. We know life interferes sometimes.

--- We also seem to have a bit of a functional/machine learning bent, at least on this first batch. I'm a data scientist, and my network reflects that. Limist is a more serious clojurean, he has a talk on euroclojure coming.

We also have a couple of people from the top 5 HN posters coming on this or some future batch.