Title: [Proposal] FOSDEM-like event for the Bitcoin community, by the community Post by: meinhard on June 20, 2014, 04:08:47 PM Hello fellow Bitcoin hackers,
looking at ticket prices of upcoming conferences this year I got a little bit frustrated: Bitcoin in the Beltway Washington: €294 Inside Bitcoins Hong Kong: €294 WIRED Money London: €1248 Bitcoin Finance 2014 Dublin: €599 Inside Bitcoins Conference & Expo Melbourne: €276 CoinSummit London: €677 Annual North American Bitcoin Conference Chicago: €202 Coin Congress San Francisco: €331 Cryptocon Sydney: €913 Cryptocon Singapore: €883 Inside Bitcoins Tel Aviv: €368 Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies St. Petersburg: €37 (or donation) Cryptolina Bitcoin Conference Raleigh: €202 Camp Bitcoin Black Rock City: ? (probably donation) World Bitcoin Forum Bonn: €300 Bitcoinference Summer 2014 Amsterdam: ? Bitcoin Central & Eastern European Conference Ljubljana: €300 Inside Bitcoins London: €495 Bitcoin Conference Kiev: €75 Bitcoin World at Money2020 Las Vegas: €2171 (yeah, baby!) Dubai Bitcoin Conference: ? With the notable exception of the St. Petersberg conference and the Burning Man camp the events are obviously not targeted at free software developers or mainstream users. So I propose to organise an event that is accessible to a broader audience, similar to the open source conference FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/ (https://fosdem.org/)):
Let's make cryptocurrency conferences less about suits, but more about community and fun (hello shibes)! Ideas, comments, pointers to similar proposals welcome. Cheers, Meinhard. Edit: Added Coin Congress |