Re:What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
by gwd on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:37AM
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> A bit of a tangent, but am I the only one that thinks there are... too many conferences?
I work for a decade-and-a-half old open-source project which is had genuine collaboration from a number of large companies. We've been having a yearly conference mainly to have face-time and hash out architectural decisions that are difficult to do over email since nearly the beginning; these meetings are really critical for the proper functioning of the project.
But conference venues are getting more expensive. Much more expensive. The cost of hosting a conference has probably tripled in the last 5 years. The boom in conferences is a big part of that.
Our connected world was supposed to make this sort of face-to-face collaboration obsolete. Instead it's made it more common than ever.
I work for a decade-and-a-half old open-source project which is had genuine collaboration from a number of large companies. We've been having a yearly conference mainly to have face-time and hash out architectural decisions that are difficult to do over email since nearly the beginning; these meetings are really critical for the proper functioning of the project.
But conference venues are getting more expensive. Much more expensive. The cost of hosting a conference has probably tripled in the last 5 years. The boom in conferences is a big part of that.
Our connected world was supposed to make this sort of face-to-face collaboration obsolete. Instead it's made it more common than ever.