<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 21:40, Russell Coker via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">More conferences would be good. Conferences don't need to be as big as LCA. <br>
It seems that OE is going to be the big conference, niche conferences could be <br>
the other thing.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Vague long-term thoughts - noting I have no idea what kind of format EO's organisers anticipate adopting, etc etc - if EO successfully takes off and succeeds LCA as LA's flagship conference, as a shorter event it could become the centrepiece of an open source conferences season that co-locates niche events either side. Experiment with dedicated events for {$language, $distro, kernel development, sysadmins, gamedev, etc} that are more independent and bigger/smaller/more fancy/less fancy/funded differently (as appropriate) than an LCA miniconf, and still lets distant attendees justify buying a ticket because they'll also be able to throw in EO before/after. Conversely, you can also attract the people who would have been interested in your LCA miniconf but aren't interested in paying for a full week of LCA, because your event will be separate from EO.</div><div><br></div><div>Like many on this list, I have a few reservations with how the EO announcement happened, and yes, I'm a bit scared of the prospect of losing some of the LCA magic if the old LCA doesn't return - but I'm hoping it'll reinvigorate interest in LA and break us out of the current cycle where we struggle to find volunteers making LCA a touch-and-go affair every year.</div><div><br></div><div>(I have vague dreams - and ~zero energy to pursue personally, at least for the next ~2-3 years thanks to my commitments on other organisations' committees - of seeing a Linux Plumbers-style event take off in the Asia-Pacific region, and if such an event were to happen in Australia, it would make a lot of sense for it to sit alongside EO.)</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Andrew Donnellan<br><a href="http://andrew.donnellan.id.au" target="_blank">http://andrew.donnellan.id.au</a> <a href="mailto:andrew@donnellan.id.au" target="_blank">andrew@donnellan.id.au</a></div></div>