Post #2862350

@juliette@mastodon.green @johentsch@hostux.social @yaxu@post.lurk.org I'm somebody for whom going to a conference (in my case tech rather than academic) is a significant effort, so I only go to the ones that I *really* care about *a lot* and remote the rest. I have to say that the volunteer-run tech conferences I tend to interact with have been quite good at allowing remote participation from way before 2020, and for watching talks that's often as good or even *better* than being in person. Interacting with talks is also a solved problem that only sometimes fails because of a lack of volunteers. The big problem is the hallway track. as tech people there are multiple ways that we already communicate online, and they are great (and sometimes used even during conferences), but they just aren't the same thing as in-person, often random, meeting, and none of the solution I've seen trying during these years have come even close.