News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting. Parent comment

Re:Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting by hueving on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:10AM (#13519204)
I've been to a conference in mainland China. The firewall made it completely miserable (it was a tech conference). People from the west expect to be able to use Google/gmail/hangouts/github/ssh for more than 5 minute random bursts of connectivity.

You can't expect people to go to tech conferences in those garbage conditions.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting by patrickk on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:01AM (#13519370)
DevCon2? Lots of people on /r/ethereum were upset that videos of the talks were not available for weeks afterwards because it was in Shanghai.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting by hueving on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:57AM (#13520067)
No, it was for developing infrastructure tooling (e.g. K8s, docker, etc), all of which was mainly hosted on github.

Sounds like it's not an uncommon problem. Frankly I think the conferences are only as successful as they are because of the volume of mainland Chinese citizens and the novelty of a trip to mainland China for people outside of the country.

[ Parent | on HN ]