Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 11, 2009 23:14 UTC (Sun) by airlied (subscriber, #9104)
Parent article: Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Can I ask for the sake of people who do attend these conferences to ignore suggestions from people who don't, as they invariably make actual discussion in talks pointless. I didn't attend LPC this year and I'd still rather the people at it managed to discuss things openly without stupid mic queuing etc.

Its a developers conference you are either there or you aren't.

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Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 11, 2009 23:59 UTC (Sun) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (1 responses)

You are wrong.

Debconf has continually proven that you live stream and provide videos of talks and discussions with slides without any mic queuing etc.

Every (FOSS) conference should aspire to that level of sophistication and openness.

Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 12, 2009 0:03 UTC (Mon) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]

My main problem isn't that you can't do this perfectly, its that if you don't do it perfectly it has an impact on the people attending, who are paying to attend and whose companies are investing in their attendance.

LCA does this very well also, however if one more person ask someone talking to me to get a mic, I'd get annoyed, you've only got so much time at these things and really you should optimise for the attendees not the rest.