Notes from an online free-software conference

The 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) was meant to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at the end of August. As it happens, your editor was on the organizing committee for that event and thus got a close view of what happens when one's hopes for discussing memory-management changes on the Canadian eastern seaboard become one of the many casualties of an ongoing pandemic. Transforming LPC into a successful online experience was a lot of work, but the results more than justified the effort. Read on for some notes and thoughts from the experience of making LPC happen in 2020.

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