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

[Arnaud Allard de Grandmaison via cfe-dev]

I think there is no one-size-fits-all conference format. It's a fact
attendees have different backgrounds or interests (academic, industry,
hobby, ...) and different philosophees as well.

Having different LLVM conferences addressing different tradeoffs is a
richness. They are all located at different positions in a wide spectrum. I
enjoy the US conference, the EuroLLVM and FOSDEM, but each one for
different reasons.

The price charged is reasonnable compared to a number of other conferences
in our fields (what's the fee for cppcon or cgo ?), and to bounce on
David's comment, I can remember some FOSDEM editions where we had to queue
under the rain to get some bad food and have no seat available in the talk
room. I however consider myself lucky because some people could not even
enter the room ! And it also happened that video recording did not work (in
2016 for the LLVM dev room for example)... This never happened at a US or
Euro LLVM.

> It's worth observing that EuroLLVM's distinctly worst recent attendance
was at Barcelona, using a commercial space and co-located with CGO rather
than standalone at a university.

As a EuroLLVM organizer, I believe the poor attendance in Barcelona was due
to a number of factors others than those you name : there was a conflict
with a game developers' conference and we were lacking a strong local
community --- unlike all the other editions. Hosting the conference at a
university (in Barcelona) would not have changed anything regarding the
attendance. Colocating with CGO was an experiment worth trying though in my
opinion.

Cheers,
--
Arnaud


On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Robinson, Paul via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> How exactly is the developer meeting “commercialization” of an open source
> project?
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> Not the developer meeting per se, but charging $300 a head for it.  With
> attendance of 500 you're pushing $150k revenue, even with some subsidized
> attendees.  (I understand that the expense of SJCC makes something like
> this necessary, but that's a choice you're making regarding venue, and the
> decision-making behind it is pretty opaque.)
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> To hold it at a university we would most likely need to have it during a
> break or on a weekend as most of their year round event spaces are not big
> enough. I think there is a false assumption that this is an idea that has
> never been explored.
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> That sounds a bit snippy…. It would be more helpful to the discussion if
> you described what *was* explored and why it was rejected.  It's worth
> observing that EuroLLVM's distinctly worst recent attendance was at
> Barcelona, using a commercial space and co-located with CGO rather than
> standalone at a university.
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> --paulr
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