[Linux-aus] Announcing Everything Open - Conference 2023

[Simon Lyall]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, Russell Stuart via linux-aus wrote:
> The answer to that philosophical question is above my pay grade.  But in a 
> practical sense, in this particular situation, I very much doubt more 
> openness would have helped. I can't recall what was officially said at LCA 
> 2022, but I'm sure by the closing most people knew there were no bids.  The 
> seriousness of the situation was made plain at the AGM, and if nothing else, 
> the absence of the big reveal of where the next LCA would be was a bit of a 
> give away.

One problem I see with LA is that what the people on the committee think is 
general knowledge is often not general knowledge. They are immersed in 
something while the rest of us see nothing about it for 6 months at a 
time.

I would suspect you will find that a large percentage of the people on 
this list do not know that there were no bids[1] for Linux.conf.au 2023.

Certainly up until around June I was expecting a LCA to be announced. I 
just assumed lack of announcement was due to the usual LA secrecy.

I mean even after EO was announced it was very much "connect the dots" to 
tell us this was replacing LCA.

[1] Apart for the one mentioned elsewhere on the list that was not 
accepted.

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