So I’ve been on an idea for the last little bit. If you follow me on fedi, you might have seen what I’m talking about. The idea is basically this: a conference, in some form, based around the idea of “what we could have”, i.e. alternative visions for what computing or infrastructure or whatever could be, with a green, open source, demo focused bent. Now I have no clue how to organize anything like that, so I’m asking for y’all’s help! Do you know people? Have ideas of how to get funding? Have a talk/workshop/whatever idea? Please reach out to me!

Lovely idea! I think the problem is that radical green tech themes aren't really compatible with people flying from around the world to meet together, but I think alternatives have got a bad name during the pandemic due to a large number of events 'moving online' while being somewhat incompatible with that way of communicating/interacting. Do you already have an idea about what form the conference could take from that perspective?

Drake Meme: • conference 👎 • online journal that people submit papers, and multimedia presentations to 👍

I'm thinking about some sort of "journal" attached to a "federated conference" sort of thing! I really love how Hack Club runs their clubs, where they provide toolkits and software and resources for local groups to run a club, and i feel a fedi-conf could do something like that, with presentations running online, and a sort of local "hallway track"

It's not perfect, but I do like pubpub as an open publishing platform that gets beyond pdfs.