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

[C Bergström via cfe-dev]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:34 PM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk
> wrote:

> On 16 Jun 2017, at 17:20, Brian Cain via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>

I'm really really glad David pointed this out because I felt kinda awkward
for being the only person to push back against the "commercialization" of
an open source project. On the other hand I'm extremely appreciative that
it's being organized so professionally.

I feel there's probably others with better connections to bay area
universities to connect the dots, but if this is something that would be an
option I'm happy to try to find space which is suitable.

I've never attended the conferences which David mentions, but there's a
long list of conferences which have a relevant audience and probably would
love to share. With that in mind I wonder how open the foundation is to
having this outside the bay area. (Some conferences rotate east/west cost
to balance the travel for those who aren't in cali)

* apachecon
* oscon (maybe this is too commercial)
* C++Now/cppcon
... (Need more?)
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Was there specific concerns with having this hosted by one company?

Last comment and please take it lightly - Isn't there some big company
building a spaceship or something down there.... wouldn't it be cool if
that had a conference room we could use.... hmm..
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