I’ve grumbled about the ludicrous price of conferences a lot recently. To put this in perspective:

I am off to a Dagstuhl seminar soon. The total cost of attending this three-day event (train to the airport, flight, taxi to the venue in the middle of nowhere, food, accommodation, and attendance) is less than just the registration fee for SOSP last year and EuroLLVM this year. And I expect to get far more out of it than either.

Last year I taught at a week-long summer school (PLISS). If I had paid the registration fee, the total cost of attending would have been slightly more than the cost of registration for either of the other events.

But both of those events are bigger! Yes, but does that make them more useful? I don’t have time to talk to most of the attendees and so much of the program is full of talks that could have been prerecorded videos (which I could watch without travelling) that the actual face-to-face time with other people is smaller.

Computer science really needs to rethink the ‘spend huge amounts of money going to massive conferences’ model. It excludes people who aren’t backed by well-funded institutions. And the value for attendees is quite low (far lower than for a lot of more focused smaller events).

#SOSP #EuroLLVM #ACM #Dagstuhl

#EuroLLVM to świetna okazja, by porozmawiać o społeczności #LLVM. Nie, nie na konferencji.

Jeżeli kiedykolwiek mieliście jakiekolwiek wątpliwości co do tego, jaki stosunek do wolontariuszy ma owa społeczność, wystarczy spojrzeć na ceny biletów. Który wolontariusz wyrzuci $750 z własnej kieszeni za wstęp?!

No ale dobra, znamy swoje miejsce. My jesteśmy od tego, żeby poświęcać swoje weekendy na naprawianie tego, co państwo korporacjusze zepsują w tygodniu. A następnie proszenia się, żeby przejrzeli nasze poprawki, zanim zepsują kolejną rzecz. A w tym czasie jaśnie wielmożni będą radzić, jak zgotować nam jeszcze gorszą przyszłość.

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#OpenSource

#EuroLLVM is a good opportunity to talk of the #LLVM community. No, not at the conference.

Because if you ever were wondering what LLVM project's attitude towards its volunteer contributors is, just look at the ticket prices. I mean, which volunteer would spend $750 on a conference ticket?!

But yeah, we know our place. It's to spend weekends fixing what corporate contributors broke through the week, then beg them to actually review our fixes before they break more. And in the meantime, our gracious lords will debate how to mess up our future even more.

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#OpenSource

3 months ago, I shared some of my thoughts on how compilers and security relate to each other, in the opening keynote for EuroLLVM. The video recording is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_Fxa0tdpY.

I heard from quite a few people that they liked the presentation; you might like it too…

If you prefer to just look through the slides, you can find them at https://discourse.llvm.org/uploads/short-url/ziUm6uTuOhq8hV77yYqjS1vuuFX.pdf

#eurollvm #llvm #compilers #security #bolt

#CarbonLang #LLVM #EuroLLVM

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Really excited to go to the EuroLLVM Meeting. Lets hope they are friendly to newcomer.  

I'll be there with the angel shirt from the #37c3. Let's see if I can met people.

#llvm #eurollvm