Have to say having done a talk at and event with organiser of #ModernFrontends in the past - I don't know if karma is catching up - but the vitriol aimed at one person is quite something, and some of the pile-on is just showing folks in a bad light.

I get people were put out of pocket, but lesson learned and never do events associated with her again. Move on.

Is the hate campaign needed?

In case you were ever wonder what _NOT_ to do at a conference, here’s a really good write up by @[email protected]

“10 Tips on Running a Terrible conference  - Lessons from #ModernFrontends”
https://youtu.be/Ekn-qiH8Ozw

Another post about #ModernFrontends from Dylan Beattie

Absolute fucking madness what I've heard about this event.

Not a peep from the organiser about all this either...

https://dylanbeattie.net/2022/11/22/modern-frontends-2022.html

@andy two more for your blog post on #modernfrontends:

* Todd Libby: https://toddl.dev/posts/modern-frontends/
* Mike Hartington: https://mhartington.io/post/modern-frontends-live/

One remark about the #ModernFrontends debacle: while not offering flight and hotel to speakers is indeed a red flag, I cannot see how the conference could have budgeted them for 100+ speakers. It's just too many - even if we assume all are European you'd still look at about 900 euros per head, i.e. 90,000 just for flight and hotel. That's not sustainable.

That doesn't exonerate the conference - it could have invited fewer speakers - but it's still something to keep in mind.

It's really sad when event organisers don't consider their responsibility to attendees or speakers.

Yes, it is extremely difficult to run a conference and it can be hugely overwhelming if you don't manage to get the ticket sales you need in order to supply everything.

But refusal to accept responsibility is not a good strategy.

Writeup from @thisisjofrank
#ModernFrontends
https://dev.to/thisisjofrank/my-experience-of-modern-frontends-conference-1cgg