Comment by kristoff_it

That's pretty much what it is, it's a reaction to an implosion that happened last year in the Handmade Network related to the Handmade Seattle conference which caused the conference organizer and the community leads to go separate ways.

https://handmade.network/blog/p/8989-separating_from_handmad...

https://handmadecities.com/news/splitting-from-handmade-netw...