commit ac4872ff53cdc2a0bc6e9bb9db5700a6149b09da
parent d19ac877e8511205ad24f92f9f41054d74302290
Author: Antoine Amarilli <a3nm@a3nm.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:33:34 +0100
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@@ -101,14 +101,11 @@ Some challenges were mentioned in terms of timezones for online conferences, tec
There was a discussion of the advantages of holding an online conference: talks of better quality and predictable length, less people missing from the first/last sessions, reduced participation fee, and also attracting many participants who couldn’t have traveled to the onsite event. It was pointed out that the benefits of online vs onsite conferences would be easier to evaluate if we had an explicit list of goals for EDBT/ICDT; some goals were proposed and discussed to this end.
-There were some pointers to existing, pre-COVID-19 events, such as the hybrid CCC
-\footnote{URL:
+There were some pointers to existing, pre-COVID-19 events, such as the hybrid CCC\footnote{URL:
\url{https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Congress_Everywhere}},
-the hybrid Debian Conference
-\footnote{URL:
+the hybrid Debian Conference\footnote{URL:
\url{https://writefreely.debian.social/paddatrapper/remote-conference-software}}, and the hybrid
-Neuromatch
-\footnote{URL: \url{https://medium.com/@kording/how-to-run-big-neuro-science-conferences-online-neuromatch-io-49c694c7e65d}}.
+Neuromatch\footnote{URL: \url{https://medium.com/@kording/how-to-run-big-neuro-science-conferences-online-neuromatch-io-49c694c7e65d}}.
There is also a study\footnote{URL: \url{https://elifeambassadors.github.io/improving-conferences/}} listing existing conferences by discipline and practices.
In terms of tools, beyond Zoom and Slack, some of these conferences also used
Crowdcast and Mattermost. Virtual spaces like \url{gather.town},
@@ -120,11 +117,9 @@ city/country could attend the remote event together.
There was also pointers to ongoing efforts to move conferences online because of
COVID-19, e.g., ASPLOS\footnote{URL: \url{https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/243882-the-asplos-2020-online-conference-experience/fulltext}}
-and the ACM report on Virtual Conferences
-\footnote{URL: \url{https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences}}.
+and the ACM report on Virtual Conferences\footnote{URL: \url{https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences}}.
-There was also some discussion about how to organize a follow-up poll for participants. This poll was performed and published online
-\footnote{URL: \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07668}}.
+There was also some discussion about how to organize a follow-up poll for participants. This poll was performed and published online\footnote{URL: \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07668}}.
To summarize the essential points, it was completed by 114 participants
(42\% of the registered participants). The outcome was that the online
conference was perceived as comparable but somewhat worse than a typical on-site
