[Linux-aus] Announcing Everything Open - Conference 2023

Steven Ellis steven.ellis at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 15:37:54 AEDT 2022


At the end of LCA 2022 it was made clear there were no bids for 2023.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 5:34 PM Simon Lyall via linux-aus <
linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:

> 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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