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I've been thinking about putting together something like a "global warming for devops" or a "climate capacity planning" talk for velocity where the final slide
by cagenut 7y ago
I've been thinking about putting together something like a "global warming for devops" or a "climate capacity planning" talk for velocity where the final slide is: cancel velocity.
That is, of course, over-simplifying, but O'reilly's conferences line of business is an interesting example of a non-energy company who's business model is existentially threatened by a meaningful response to climate change.
Internet debate artists will endlessly get caught up in the false-binary of banning international flights or not, but functionally, from O'reilly's perspective, there's no meaningful difference between an outright ban and an order-of-magnitude price increase. Either way the conference business craters.
Can they "pivot to video"?
Do they feel ethically obligated to try?
- jsty 7y agoConsidering half the reason for those conferences is networking, perhaps a 'regional' / distributed conference model would work - you could still choose to attend an in-place event for all the networking benefits (albeit with a smaller group of people), but have all the talks live-streamed to theatres in each location (and online for those who don't care about the networking).