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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 a
by dom96 5y ago
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 5y agoIt 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 5y agoOne 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 5y agoas long as sound is well recorded, so often you had online talks that were entirely unwatchable