Has FreeCAD developers / users ever conducted any conference?
I might be good, if we have one in near future.
What is your opinion?
jmaustpc wrote:ping
We have had some discussions about this lately. the questions related arehardeeprai wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:49 amHas FreeCAD developers / users ever conducted any conference?
I might be good, if we have one in near future.
What is your opinion?
What were the conferences about? Were they arranged via Universities?
Maybe, but someone still has to go through all the processes to sort it out.
Yes, but .....
It also depends on what the purpose and scope of the meeting/conference is to be.
This depends heavily on the target group. If companies and universities support attendance it is no big issue. But as far as I can see is FreeCAD development and usage more dedicated to spare time than to work time. I would afford traveling to Australia solely for a conference. I would instead like to take my wife and make a trip through the country. So Jim's plans fit well.
Again, this depends on the target group. I have as well organized a rather big scientific conference when I still was young and good looking (one of these attributes has changed). And you are right, that was most important then: We had to plan the conference, print posters, organize hotels, transport, meals, coffee, cookies, ...
The first one was in 1995. The ELEA valparaiso. A conference for architecture students. We received 1500 students from latin america. It involved an organization of several teams from 5 universities. All students. Universities helped a lot, but not with money.