Which conferences are folks attending these days?

[Keith Smiley]

I'm a lurker on this list but I'll plug bazelcon since there's a lot of
interest in that community about reproducible builds as well. It definitely
skews a bit more towards bazel specifics though.
--
Keith Smiley


On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 10:42 AM Santiago Torres-Arias <
santiago at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Nowadays I tend to attend LF-managed confs. I don't think there's 100%
> overlap with e.g., FOSDEM attendees but they tend to fill a niche. In
> theory there's "SupplyChainSecurityCon" there, which I think does pull
> in a bunch of people. I've heard positive stuff about OSS Summit this
> year around.
>
> I myself am aiming to attend plumbers later this year -- I'm hoping I see
> some of you there!
>
> For good or bad, I think there's a mix of the different types of OSS
> folks in r-b. In a sense this leaves meeting r-b folks as an "accident"
> rather than the primary reason for conference travel.
>
> I wonder if co-location with another conf would help people prioritize
> the "right conf." It may just be a matter of signaling r-b presence in a
> conference as first class. For me, it'd help me choose which of the 20
> conferences that happen each year is the one I should aim for.
>
> Cheers!
> -Santiago
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 02:45:42PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > Hey -general,
> >
> > I was talking to a bunch of RB folks yesterday, and  we  came  to  the
> > loosely shared view that, after peak  Covid  and  other  industry-wide
> > changes, conferences are no  longer  the  "must  attend"  events  they
> > previously were… especially  in  the  area  of  software  supply-chain
> > security.  In rough, practical  terms,  it  seems  harder  to  justify
> > conference travel today than it did in mid-2019.
> >
> > To that end, what conferences are folks on this list still  going  to,
> > and, hopefully, still getting something from?  I mean, there  must  be
> > some exceptions other than FOSDEM… :)
> >
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > --
> >       o
> >     ⬋   ⬊      Chris Lamb
> >    o     o     reproducible-builds.org 💠
> >     ⬊   ⬋
> >       o
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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