[cfe-dev] 2017 US LLVM Developers' Meeting - Registration Opening!

[David Chisnall via cfe-dev]

On 16 Jun 2017, at 17:20, Brian Cain via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> I agree that it sounds attractive to hold a conference without attendance limits or fees.  But – seriously -- where could you host such an event?  In someone’s home?  Outdoors in a park? (“ahem, could you speak up, we can’t hear you back here.”).

I hear rumours that there are some universities near the San Francisco Bay Area that have quite large computer science departments.

A lot of open source conferences (including EuroLLVM) keep their costs down by relying on a university to provide the space and Internet access.  FOSDEM manages around 5,000 attendees each year at ULB in Brussels without a registration fee (though also without providing any food, which is less than ideal), and puts all of the main track talks online (smaller devrooms are responsible for arranging their own recordings if they’re doing formal presentations).  I would encourage the Foundation to look at BSDCan and PGCon (co-located spatially, but not quite temporally) as an example of conferences for open source projects that manage to keep their costs very low, yet provide a very positive experience for both the few hundred attendees and those watching the videos afterwards.

David