I guess it's no worse than the other main use of conference talks I've seen, which is to hawk the speaker's latest book. Maybe that's diminished somewhat, I have not been to many conferences lately but 10-15 years ago it seemed like most talks were peppered with phrases like "I talk more about this in my book..."
Re:Open Source is Not About You
by andrewingram on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:21AM
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It's possible I was lucky with some of the conferences I went to, which had talks very much in the vein of "here's a new/different way to think about things". And I don't mind people using their own projects/products as a demonstration of what they're trying to communicate. But when they start to feel like Apple's product announcement keynotes, it feels something has gone wrong.
Thankfully it's still usually the case that the content of the talk is generally valuable. But ultimately, if I'm paying to fly somewhere and see your talk, I'm there to learn, not to witness your own self-promotion.