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Alpaca 2025 (https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/) is going to be great! Running a new event about a seemingly niche topic like 'algorithmic patterns' across all the creative arts was a risk. We've had no media coverage so far, have paid social media tech oligarchs no advertising money, but through the power of email and word of mouth there's been loads of interest. For the festival in Sheffield I'm especially surprised + happy that most music ticket sales are for full weekend passes. I thought we'd included too many festival workshops but they're nearly all full up already. The Sheffield pattern club org team (Lucy + @ray + Hazel + me) has come together to make it happen and if we manage to pull this off with half the funding we were expecting, we can do anything.. For the conference it's lovely that it's become a multi-hub extravaganza by mistake. Folks in Berlin (at UdK), Barcelona (at @axolot) and Linz (at @servus) decided to put on 'watch parties' and they're going to add a lot of flavour to the online conference part. Because the conference is free/open access, there's no real financial barrier or institutional power to stop people doing it. The Berlin one will be a full-blown hub with loads of talks streaming from there including the keynote. We'd have melted a lot more glacier otherwise, something nice to build on!