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Ah yes, I didn't mean to imply that the event was for industry -- I meant that it was at the cutting edge (which is normally the leading edge of industry) since

Ah yes, I didn't mean to imply that the event was for industry -- I meant that it was at the cutting edge (which is normally the leading edge of industry) since it's full of hackers and builders. I also do not want it to become an "industry event" in that sense, I enjoy it 10x more than I do the bajillion Kubecons. I was also referring to not just FOSDEM, but there's PostgresConf/Open, USENIX, OpenZFS, InfoQ, JSConf, Strange Loop -- there is so much information out there that it's exhausting but absolutely to our benefit. As companies go through their possibly short-lived tryst with true open source (before everyone starts reverting to shareware), they are sharing big ambitious projects that they're working on, and giving interesting talks on the architecture, motivations, etc.

datameta 6y ago
I'd like to add TinyML Summit to that list. TinyML Asia 2020 was wonderfully executed virtually. The amount of truly breakthrough research and development offered is astounding! It is also quite possible to make connections and discuss people's work and ideas post fact much more easily nowadays. I must say the Q&A feature works quite well in a videoconference setting. Everyone can see the questions - there is no chance of them being misheard. For smaller settings a live (virtual) discussion is also remarkably workable and useful. Never thought I could easily chitchat with one of the authors of the Agile manifesto, or of the head of the largest LoRaWAN network in the world, etc... Excited for TinyML Summit 2021!!