From the title, I had a question and found the answer in the FAQ:
What’s an unconference?
An unconference is a conference in which the participants – rather than the organizers – decide which sessions happen each day and on which topics. In the many years we have been organizing unconferences, we have found that for complex subjects like the Fediverse, attendees get more value (and fun!) out of unconferences than from traditional conferences. Sounds disorganized? It did to us, too, until we actually experienced our first one. So don’t worry, it will be fine :-)
Here are some suggestions for how to prepare for an unconference.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
These people previously asked us to participate in one of their conferences, and expected us to pay the full ticket price. I think its really outrageous to charge so much money for setting up some video calls, considering that most people who run the Fediverse don’t get any money at all. There are also no recordings published afterwards, which goes completely against the spirit of openness of the Fediverse.
shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 8 months ago
Bold strategy, how’d that work out?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 months ago
The most egregious for me is that these are not publicly streamed nor recorded. Only the demos are recorded, which are worthless to me.
Sounds extremely exclusive. One year during COVID, FOSDEM used a public matrix server for their entire conference and it went really well. No mandatory registration fees were required, anybody could access, there were recordings, presenters could send in a pre-recorded video or present live, and the presenters were available in the main chatroom then in a separate (but public) one after the their presentations.
When I see what FOSDEM did and then this that doesn’t even do half of that, there’s no way I’m donating money.
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