Hello, On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 08:59:43AM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > > On Tue 2020-03-31 16:52:04, Joe Lawrence wrote: > > It seems that there is interest into sharing/discussing some topics. > > The question is whether is has to be under the LPC even umbrella. > > > > Advantages of LPC: > > > > + well defined date > > + more attendees (ARM people, Steven Rostedt ;-) > > + access to some powerful video conference tool > > + access to another LPC content > > + support for the conference in the long term > > > > > > Advantages of self-organized event: > > > > + less paperwork? > > + cheaper? > > + only interested people invited > > + date after summer holidays > > + more time for the discussion > > > > I am in the favor of self organized event. For me, LPC is much less > > interesting without the personal contact and hallway conversations. > > All the LPC date is not ideal for me. > > I'd prefer LPC proper, as it would be easier (infrastructure is already > taken care of) and more inclusive (in the past we often got good > feedback from outside the direct livepatch community). And it's only > $50 US. Yeah, I think having more attendees would be valuable. > But to be honest I have doubts about the usefulness of any online > conference, so either way may be equally useless ;-) Indeed. OTOH our fellow openSUSE guys seemed to have held a fairly successful virtual summit earlier this year with some in-development virtual-conferencing software that does more than just video/audio streaming ( https://requiredmagic.com/roundtable/ ). In particular the possibility to have interactive Q&A with the presenter during and after the allotted talk slot seemed to have made up for hallway discussions. Maybe that's a viable way. (I personally wasn't at the virtual summit to know for sure, but the experience report from some of them was quite positive; I know nothing about the conferencing software of LPC) Ciao, Michael.
