9 Jul
2019
9 Jul
'19
11:18 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 01:21:09PM -0400, Alex Beamish via talk wrote:
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.
I certainly agree conferences can be much better. But most companies seem to not want to spend money for the mere peons who do the work to go talk to each other. -- Len Sorensen