The Official 2017 Homecoming Thread

[Steppingfeet]

Quick reply to a couple of Jade's points:

I'm pretty sure they streamed the European Homecoming and let them present remotely.

That would have been cool! Rather we streamed in Pupak, a dear friend of Jim and Carla's and ours. She is a foreign-born individual who lived in Louisville in the 90s, here on some sort of visa while in university. Due to the stupidity of imaginary lines on a map separating peoples, and all the bureaucracy that goes with that, she didn't fulfill the terms of her visa and was kicked out and prohibited re-entry into the country. She's been striving to return ever since to visit Jim and Carla, and attend a Homecoming, but has faced obstacle after obstacle. So as she couldn't make Homecoming we piped her in to offer her presentation a few years back.

As far as streaming the presentations, I think that's always been an iffy proposition, since Homecoming is sort of a cathartic, private event, the idea of streaming that over the internet has never really been encouraged. Plus there are people who do Homecoming low-key, who would be extremely embarrassed if someone they knew stumbled upon such a thing.

100%. If we ever did any sort of live-streaming, or online hangout, it would be an optional thing only for those in the circle who were interested.