[HN Gopher] FOSDEM 2022 will be online
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FOSDEM 2022 will be online
Author : staz
Score : 135 points
Date : 2021-10-22 08:47 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| cies wrote:
| Being so privacy focused in this day and age...
|
| FOSDEM was (and is!) accessible without a reservation, without
| handing them your personal details. They were an example before I
| was ready to understand the importance.
|
| I hope they will be able to "get back to normal" next year.
| bingohbangoh wrote:
| So much for "going back to normal" I suppose...
| chrisseaton wrote:
| The huge overcrowding and damp winter weather at FOSDEM always
| seemed to make it a disease vector. All of my team returned home
| ill after each FOSDEM. Makes sense not to try to run it in
| person.
| ajja wrote:
| true, though (1 data point) I have always been surprised that I
| have never got sick during or after FOSDEM.
| jsumrall wrote:
| True, have gone to FOSDEM the last two times it was held and
| got a nasty cold the first time and a flu on the second time.
| zoobab wrote:
| One year, I was sick and presented something anyway, it was
| so cold outside I renamed the event FROSTDEM.
| jeandejean wrote:
| I've been there every year since 2012, never caught a single
| bug... You just got unlucky I guess
| chrisseaton wrote:
| This is the argument people make with COVID.
| md8z wrote:
| This effect is well known at scifi/comic/cosplay conventions
| where it's colloquially called "con flu" or "con plague". I
| think people would have benefited from masking up at any type
| of those events. But I guess that may not make for the ideal
| costume photo.
| dugmartin wrote:
| Or the more alliterative "con crud".
| [deleted]
| em3rgent0rdr wrote:
| I think the best part of these conferences is not actually the
| talks, but rather the chance in-person encounters with other
| developers you wouldn't get to meet otherwise.
| kashyapc wrote:
| I see some comments to the effect of "so much for going back to
| normal". But only those who have actually been to FOSDEM will
| grok why they chose to go online for 2022. It's jam-packed in the
| best of times, and many contract the (in)famous "FOSDEM cold".
|
| It sucks, but I understand and fully support the FOSDEM staff's
| decision to go virtual for 2022. I'm saying this as someone who
| has been going to FOSDEM since 2012; and as a co-organizer of one
| of the Dev Rooms.
| dom96 wrote:
| Great! All conferences should transition to having an online
| edition (in addition to an in-person event if there is demand).
| Not everybody can travel half way around the world to a
| conference. It's also often much more inclusive- personally I am
| much more comfortable pre-recording a talk or livestreaming a
| talk online than presenting in person.
| jeandejean wrote:
| It used to be possible to have both, fosdem was streamed online
| live. I think it's best to have the choice, looking forward to
| fosdem 2023!
| ghaff wrote:
| One of the good outcomes is that, even after events go back to
| being in person, there's going to be a more significnt online
| component than in the past. FOSDEM has been very good about
| this for a while. But more commercially-oriented events in
| particular worried that having everything on video would take
| away the incentive for people to pay and attend in-person--or
| that the videos by themselves just weren't worth the cost of
| making them.
|
| Companies have seen though that they can get a lot more reach
| through video even if attendees are far less involved overall.
| I do think we'll see the presentations mostly being done in-
| person though. It's still more hybrid in that regard right now
| but in-person attendees are mostly not going to watch videos.
| agumonkey wrote:
| as long as sound is well recorded, so often you had online
| talks that were entirely unwatchable
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| I don't know when they decided it exactly but FOSDEM usually
| takes place in Brussels, at the ULB / VUB ( _Universite Libre de
| Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Brussel_) and these last days the
| numbers of new COVID cases are really through the roof in Belgium
| and Brussels more specifically (Brussels being the belgian city
| with the lowest vaccination rate in the country) and several
| politicians are asking once again, as you can guess it, for more
| and more restrictions.
| ghaff wrote:
| I think they just made the call this week. I last checked not
| long ago and there was no info on the site yet.
| LoriP wrote:
| Ah, that's a pity but at the same time totally respect the
| decision the Committee has made. It would have been a horrible
| choice to have to make.
| pjmlp wrote:
| At least you don't have to run between rooms, running across
| ULB campus, while leaving 5 minutes earlier to still assure a
| place. :)
| popey wrote:
| 5 mins is optimistic. Last time I went, rooms were full all
| day. People would sit in the room all day, for a talk they
| wanted hours later. People who actually wanted to be in the
| room would stand or sit outside, and watch the stream on
| their laptops and phones. It's massively oversubscribed, with
| poorly sized rooms.
| ghaff wrote:
| There are just too many people for the facility. Last time
| I went I just camped out in a devroom that was of the most
| interest overall. Made for a much better experience than
| trying to go from talk to talk.
|
| While disappointing at one level, the decision is very
| understandable. It's a crowded event and, given the
| distributed layout and lack of registration, there's no
| real way to put any controls in place even if they wanted
| to without making massive changes that would require much
| more staffing.
| talideon wrote:
| One upshot of all this is that next year it might be just
| as easy just to head somewhere with decent connectivity
| within ULB, slap on a headset, and watch it that way. It's
| certainly less trouble than trying to get in. If that
| catches on, hopefully it'll discourage some amount of seat
| camping.
| joeyh wrote:
| I've done this at conferences for years+, hotel room
| track is great to catch a talk when you need to recharge
| your extraversion battery.
|
| +FLOSS conferences having been generally well ahead of
| mainstream on streaming.
| phkahler wrote:
| >> People would sit in the room all day, for a talk they
| wanted hours later.
|
| So people claimed seats early because the rooms were full
| because people were claiming seats early....
| ghaff wrote:
| Not really. There are just a lot of people very unevenly
| distributed--although the fact that people are willing to
| camp out for the talks they want to see (which many
| others probably want to see as well) probably amplifies
| the unevenness.
| pjmlp wrote:
| Yes, similar to my experience, if you want to run out,
| being close to the door is the only way to actually manage
| it.
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