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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

by hueving 10y ago

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.

patrickk 10y ago
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.
- hueving 10y ago
  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.