I've seen discussion around several in-person only events lately, where the organisers justify it by saying they can't get the best quality of conversation online.
Well, you can't get any of my conversation at an event I can't get to.
An in-person event that you have to travel to excludes people with caring responsibilities, disabilities, and limited funds.
@christianp There is also the issue of the carbon footprint of in-person meetings.
I don't know much about other disciplines, but from my own experience it seems obvious that the carbon footprint of Internet travel (#ietf, #nanog, #ripe, #xnog, #icann, ...) is immense.
This is a #lisp machine for network protocols. Initially in pursuit of a social forum focused on link sharing.
as #startups and free projects alike rush to implement some #IETF RFC adding only 'but on the web'. I aim to define a modular protocol server which can support an arbitrary number of network protocols as a network daemon. Our POC in this endeavour will be to build an #NNTP -like protocol daemon which gateways to #IPFS storage. The content held in this system can be consumed by arbitrary clients; a web application presenting #reddit -like services would be just one of many potential clients, although it is likely that Gnus for Emacs will be the first one. https://codeberg.org/fade/callisto