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Was FediForum that cash-grab event t 90€/person with no public live-stream where fediverse developers had to pay admission too? Or am I thinking of another event?
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There were a variety of price points, including $1.99 tickets for people who couldn't afford more. General Tickets were 40 bucks, but quite a few people spent more to sponsor the cheap tickets to help out. Only corporate attendees paid $250 per person.
The demos were recorded and uploaded, extensive notes for each breakout session were written, and some of us did live-blogging for the entire day while attending. The general format of an unconference is pretty grassroots, conversational, and informal.
It's the third event of its kind, bringing in a wide variety of people building different parts of the Fediverse, from Trust & Safety to standards bodies to developers and advocates. There's a lot of awesome things happening as people try to grapple with some of the biggest challenges the network has ever had.
Ah so, it is FediForum I was thinking of. @nutomic@lemmy.ml made a comment about not wanting to participate because he had to pay and I wasn't sure if it was this.
It all still feels really iffy. This could've easily been streamed on a streaming platform of choice or just like FOSDEM did during COVID: through matrix. Also, only demo videos were uploaded, not the talks themselves. That just feels like a marketing move: give them a taste so that next time, they'll spend money to get the real thing.
I can understand that there's effort and time required by the organisers to set this all up, but IMO there's a better way that makes this seem less... commercial and FARTSy (forced artificial scarcity). For example make it free for maintainers, stream with a delay for the public (e.g 5 minutes like in esports) and none for participants, let participants join in the live chat, record entire talks, upload the talks to peertube and add donation links.
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You have all of the answers. I look forward to the Threadiverse conference you put together