Linux Journal: Open-Sourcing Conferences

“In particular I want to reboot the whole Conference System. It
sounds as though reboot is trying to do exactly that. Hope I can
come home with some fresh ideas. Lord knows, we need them. Because
the defaults are as stale as dumpster gunk.

“The problem is mass habituation. We’re so used to the whole
routine: picking up badges, grabbing coffee and cookies, sitting in
rows behind tables with laptops flopped open, surfing the Web or
answering e-mail while keynoting CEOs from sponsoring companies
drone PR while the PowerPoint deck shuffles by, complaining about
the absent power strips and bad Wi-Fi connection. The list goes on.
And on.

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