BetterThanMinecon 2015

BetterThanMinecon 2015 was the original BetterThanMinecon convention conducted by Asie. It was created on July 3rd and 4th, 2015, based on a Twitter joke, and it inspired several spinoff conventions. The roughly 26 hours of preparation resulted in a modpack, a server containing a convention center, a number of booths representing some of the features of a variety of mods, a talk room in which several panels were hosted, an IRC channel, and a Mumble server. BetterThanMinecon 2015 ran parallel to the real life Minecon, from 9am July 4th to 9pm July 5th. Video recordings of most of its panels can be found on its web page.

The BetterThanMinecon modpack contain several developmental or beta versions of mods. One mod used in BetterThanMinecon 2015 was compiled mere minutes before the launch of the server.

Booths

 * BuildCraft (asie)
 * EiraMoticons, Cooking for Blockheads (BlayTheNinth)
 * Flamingo, BetterStorage (copygirl)
 * Chisel (Cricket)
 * Infernal Skies (CyanideX)
 * WAWLA (Darkhax)
 * Thermal Smeltery (Drullkus)
 * Refined Relocation (Dynious, BlayTheNinth)
 * FluxedCrystals 2 (Jared)
 * Glass Shards (ljfa)
 * Plan9k OS for OpenComputers (magik6k)
 * Zetta Industries (marcin212)
 * Ender Utilities (masa)
 * Aura Cascade (pixlepix)
 * OpenComputers (Sangar)
 * Matter Overdrive (shadowfacts)
 * Integrated Circuits (skyem123, Achati, Vic)
 * Ender IO (tterrag)
 * Computronics, BuildCraft Oil Tweak (Vexatos)

Panels
The timetable was provided in "British time" (GMT+1).

July 4th

 * 12:00–12:15 PM - Introduction (asie). Partial recording here.
 * 1:00 PM–2:00 PM - Ask Me Anything (Jared, Fluxed Crystals 2 creator).
 * 4:00 PM–5:00 PM - Server Administration (Hadn69, AlienMC admin).
 * 7:00 PM–8:10 PM - Ask Me Anything (asie).
 * 8:10 PM–9:50 PM - Modding Minecraft (Jared, Mitchellbrine, tterrag, copygirl, asie).
 * 11:00 PM–11:40 PM - The Heir (CyanideX). Recording here.

July 5th

 * 6:00 AM–6:40 AM - The Best Java IDE (Mitchellbrine, asie, Cervator).
 * 1:00 PM–2:30 PM - OpenComputers Live Demonstration (Sangar). Recording here.
 * 3:00 PM–3:40 PM - AMA part 2, due to popular request (asie, copygirl). Recording here.
 * 5:00 PM–6:00 PM - Mod Development (Vic, Thog, Darkhax, skyem123, asie, Shadowfacts, Sandra, ljfa, Sangar, possibly others). Recording here.
 * 6:00 PM–7:00 PM - Mod Testing (Mitchellbrine, Syths, TheMike). Recording here.
 * 8:00 PM–9:15 PM - FTB Wiki Q&A (PaladinOne). Recording here.
 * 9:30 PM–10:00 PM - Grand Finale (asie). Recording here.