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Some of us are lucky enough to attend marvellous conventions, made with love by amazing people. Great events with top-notch speakers, incredible venues, and amazing parties.
+Some of us are lucky enough to attend marvelous conventions, made with love by amazing people. Great events with top-notch speakers, incredible venues, and amazing parties.
These conferences are run with huge contributions from volunteers, and financial support from sponsors, providing top-notch events at affordable prices.
But even then, they're not affordable for everyone.
We're building an alternative model: SquatConf.
SquatConf won't be your everyday conference, but we'll have good talks from amazing people. It'll be donation-based, and you'll get to contribute if you want to.
-Conferences costs are huge, and ticket prices are often nowhere near the true per-attendee cost, even for a non-profit conference.
Fancy venues, transporation, hotels and food are really nice perks to have, but…
If you hold a conference in a squat… - The speakers advance their travel expenses… - Host in squatted spaces… - Tell people to bring some food… - And the wifi will be dodgy for sure…
+ the speakers advance their travel expenses… + host in squatted spaces… + tell people to bring some food… + and the wifi will be dodgy for sure…You'll have a zero-cost conference made with love, but a little rougher around the edges.
-November 15th 2014. A squat in Paris. For obvious reasons, we can't yet disclose where.
-We are a bunch of crazy programers that believe in anarchy and decentralised systems, conferences included.
We will provide a space, we will provide a context, some talks, and the rest will be up to you…
-The inception of SquatConf was at LXJS. It was a great conference, and the organisation did an amazing job, and after the final day of the event we ended up with dominictarr, joates and I talking about autonomous self driving boats when this idea came to life. Now the idea matured and some folks (mmalecki, nathan7, no9, substack, ...) are in the loop now.
-What you'll get out of SquatConf is in the end exactly what you want to put into SquatConf.
- -Tickets will be donation-based. You want a cheap conference? Give us nothing. You want food? Contribute.
-This won't be a 400-people event, but do you need that many people?
-We already have speakers lined up you're probably prepared to pay for :)
-You have ideas for improvements? Suggestions are always welcome.
-We plan to make SquatConf zero-sum. We'll split any profits with attendees — ROI on a conference!
+Please see our talks repository to propose a talk.
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