GU4DEC Live On The Web

Programmers and others interested in the GNOME desktop environment gather annually for an event called GU4DEC, the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. This year, there's extensive live coverage of GU4DEC (currently in progress, at Trinity College, Dublin) on the web, including a growing online photo album, audio recordings and video streams, and presentation materials. (The schedule is handy if you want to follow along.) I hope there's a similar sort of integrated documenation / dissemination from the upcoming KDE developers' conference at the Czech Republic's Nove Hrady.

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Re:How do you get a job like that?

[JanneM]

Well, many people who attend such things work with the technology, and are sent to the thing by their company. For this kind of conference, where the 'enthusiast factor' is fairly high, people can also be students (school's out by now), or interested hobbyists taking a few days of their vacation to go.

For academic conferences, just about everybody is a researcher, many (if not most) have a paper to present, and their university usually pays at least part of the cost. And if they don't, well, publishing is the name of the game, so chances are you will be going on your own money anyway.