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Good riddance. They would purchase great conferences, like Hadoop World which costed only $200 to attend, and turn them into $1500 affairs. Wish there were mor
by donretag 7y ago
Good riddance. They would purchase great conferences, like Hadoop World which costed only $200 to attend, and turn them into $1500 affairs.
Wish there were more very tech focused conferences in the US like Devoxx in Europe. No filler. No hidden sales pitches.
- ghaff 7y agoLISA, SCALE, Supercomputing, Gluecon, local DevOps Days, etc. The thing is that cheap conferences depend on either a company running it for sales purposes (and mostly not then for big events) or volunteers providing cheap labor--both of which limit the options. Volunteers mostly get tired of running conferences when there are large commercial interests involved--as happened with Hadoop.