Cassidy James 
My sleep-deprived physically-exhausted thoughts on what we learned from a hybrid GUADEC setup this year. If you attended or observed GUADEC, please feel free to share your thoughts as well! This is informal, but it's a great discussion to keep going outside of the hallways of GUADEC itself. ;)
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/what-we-learned-from-hybrid-guadec-in-2024/22328/10?u=cassidyjames
What we learned from hybrid GUADEC in 2024
This is also how the online-only FOSDEM was done during Covid, with a complex Matrix setup where a breakout matrix room would be announced in the track matrix room. Such a complex setup requires a strong on-call tech team, and I’m not sure this is something we want or can afford to have. The event was also on a slightly different scale, so more things had to be automated. Most people don’t come for the talks but to bump into people. I really like the idea of having pre-recorded talks (and QA’i...