Please don't do a DConf 2018, consider alternatives

[Iain Buclaw]

On Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 08:06:24 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 07:53:54 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>
>> I went to a conference once where they had mixed live talks 
>> and prerecorded talks - questions where taken at the end to 
>> the speaker of the prerecorded talk via a sip call.
>>
>> The organisers at the end admitted that the prerecorded talks 
>> experiment failed. No one really paid attention to any of the 
>> content in it.
>
> Did anybody pay attention to the live talks either? ;) That's 
> the real comparison.
>
> Anyway, the reason I'm giving to prerecord talks is so you can 
> watch them on your own time before the conference. Watching 
> prerecorded talks with everybody else at a conference is 
> layering stupid on top of stupid. :D

Sure, but you really think it's an appropriate use of my free 
time spending 22 hours (which may as well be half a month) 
watching prerecorded talks instead of contributing?