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@downey In-person events are the lubricant that makes our global, distributed community actually work. It is how we come to know each other, and how we solve our hardest problems. Without it, our effectiveness is reduced, misunderstanding multiply, and it is harder for new developers to find their place. And that may even have climate implications of its own.
I helped organize a couple of online-only conferences during the pandemic. By most accounts we were wildly successful. But nobody thought it was anything but a second-best fallback that failed to fill the role that conferences play in our community.
The carbon impact of everything we do has to be closely examined, and that certainly includes conference travel. If you have ideas for how we can knit the development community together into an effective whole without getting together in person, a lot of us would be interested in hearing them.
I helped organize a couple of online-only conferences during the pandemic. By most accounts we were wildly successful. But nobody thought it was anything but a second-best fallback that failed to fill the role that conferences play in our community.
The carbon impact of everything we do has to be closely examined, and that certainly includes conference travel. If you have ideas for how we can knit the development community together into an effective whole without getting together in person, a lot of us would be interested in hearing them.
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