Ubuntu Developer Summits Shifting Online, Increasing Frequency 49
hypnosec writes "Ubuntu Developer Summits Community Manager Jono Bacon has announced that the bi-annual Ubuntu Developer Summits, which were held at different locations like Brussels, Oakland, Copenhagen will be replaced by online events by moving to the cloud. Bacon revealed that the event has been successful, but in a bid to bring about improvements and refinement in the openness and accessibility of the event, it is going to transition into an online event."
They are also going to be held every three months instead of every six.
TO THE CLOUD (Score:3, Insightful)
Eliminating physical events is a bad idea. Bad sid (Score:5, Insightful)
The bad side of technology (*), those that wanted face to face events are now denied it. The benefits of that are now gone.
Online in addition, ok, but canceling physical events, including one already scheduled and that people have already made arrangements for (travel, time off, etc) is bad.
People can socialize and network at a physical event, there are somethings online only lacks.
(*) Technology has also caused the loss of video stores, CD stores, so many things are hard to buy locally now. Technology should add options, not destroy them!
Re:Eliminating physical events is a bad idea. Bad (Score:0, Insightful)
Technology and options are two completely different things. Do you really think that technology shouldn't have "destroyed" the horse carriage business, "obliterated" the hand weaving industry and (in the western world) "killed" manual wheat harvesting? Well... it didn't, it simply added options that were much more popular, just as it has with video and CD stores. And it's not technology, which can't really "cause" the loss of anything, but people who make the choice.
"Refining" Openness and Accessibility = Reducing (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:"Refining" Openness and Accessibility = Reducin (Score:2, Insightful)
Professionals already use their real names on forums where they discuss professional topics. Did you expect people to take someone called TrueSatan seriously in a professional environment? Anonymity is for people under tyrannical regimes, and for recreational forums where we don't want our unprofessional posts to merge with our professional life.