On Monday, February 8, 2021, Richard Hartmann <richih@richih.org> wrote:

> A middle ground might be to keep it running for a week, then archive
> it and re-use next year.

considerations:

* how much effort was it to set up?
* clearly it was successful (brilliantly do), do people want to go through the setup cost again?
* continuity: will people be pissed if next year they have to set up a new fosdem account?
* is there any way the service, now established and proven, could be offered to *other conferences*? (not at zero cost obviously)
* or, would something better come along by next year, and all of the above is moot?

given how frickin good it was, i mean, why not actually set it up as a CIC (Community Interest Company) just like lowRISC and actually charge it out to other conferences, commercial or Free Software?

one conference i presented at a few months back, they were so unsupportive because they'd used some proprietary system, and i couldn't log in and get audio running, i couldn't participate in chat with other attendees and couldn't attend Q&A.

another, their default chat system was slack for god's sake!  again: discriminated against for not accepting slack's terms and conditions.

matrix, jitsi, elements.io on android and web browser combined, along with bridging ro IRC, works spectacularly well and is inclusive in ways that other conference systems have not been able to achieve.

*this is a really valuable business service*

l.




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