Re: Announcing Everything Open - Conference 2023
Andrew Donnellan via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 21:40, Russell Coker via linux-aus < [email protected]> wrote: > More conferences would be good. Conferences don't need to be as big as > LCA. > It seems that OE is going to be the big conference, niche conferences > could be > the other thing. Vague long-term thoughts - noting I have no idea what kind of format EO's organisers anticipate adopting, etc etc - if EO successfully takes off and succeeds LCA as LA's flagship conference, as a shorter event it could become the centrepiece of an open source conferences season that co-locates niche events either side. Experiment with dedicated events for {$language, $distro, kernel development, sysadmins, gamedev, etc} that are more independent and bigger/smaller/more fancy/less fancy/funded differently (as appropriate) than an LCA miniconf, and still lets distant attendees justify buying a ticket because they'll also be able to throw in EO before/after. Conversely, you can also attract the people who would have been interested in your LCA miniconf but aren't interested in paying for a full week of LCA, because your event will be separate from EO. Like many on this list, I have a few reservations with how the EO announcement happened, and yes, I'm a bit scared of the prospect of losing some of the LCA magic if the old LCA doesn't return - but I'm hoping it'll reinvigorate interest in LA and break us out of the current cycle where we struggle to find volunteers making LCA a touch-and-go affair every year. (I have vague dreams - and ~zero energy to pursue personally, at least for the next ~2-3 years thanks to my commitments on other organisations' committees - of seeing a Linux Plumbers-style event take off in the Asia-Pacific region, and if such an event were to happen in Australia, it would make a lot of sense for it to sit alongside EO.) -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrew.donnellan.id.au [email protected] _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to linux-aus-unsubscribe-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org