I attended The Perl Conference (formerly YAPC) in Pittsburgh two weeks ago -- the team putting on the conference were hoping for 150 attendees but ended up with 170 folks, and four streams of talks. There were presenters and attendees there from a number of companies ("We're hiring!").

My impression is that face to face meetings beat any electronic interaction. I talked to about a dozen folks -- it was much easier in person than on IRC or on a mailing list.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 11:55 AM Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 06:40:24PM -0400, J. Hart via talk wrote:
> What happened to these conferences ?
>
> Is Linux development and/or interest in Linux dying out ?

Seems companies are less willing to pay for people to go conferences, and
more stuff seems to be happening online these days.

That's my impression at least.

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