O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
([Briefs] Mar 25, 2020 19:27 UTC (Wed) (corbet))
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O'Reilly has [1]announced that it is canceling all of its upcoming in-person conferences and shutting down its conference group permanently. " Without understanding when this global health emergency may come to an end, we can’t plan for or execute on a business that will be forever changed as a result of this crisis. With large technology vendors moving their events completely on-line, we believe the stage is set for a new normal moving forward when it comes to in-person events. " There is still no notice to this effect on the [2]OSCON page , but one assumes that is coming.
[1] https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html
[2] https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or
[1] https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html
[2] https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-or
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
What better time to lay off a bunch of employees. They'll also have a week left on their health insurance before the end of the month.
O'Reilly aren't exactly doing right by their people here. I wonder if anyone's maintaining a handy list of directors and companies who behave like this in the middle of an international crisis.
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
What better time to lay off a bunch of employees. They'll also have a week left on their health insurance before the end of the month.
O'Reilly aren't exactly doing right by their people here. I wonder if anyone's maintaining a handy list of directors and companies who behave like this in the middle of an international crisis.
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
US states usually require employers to cover up to 2 months of coverage for employees that are laid off (I believe it may even be 60 days after the last day of the month you were laid off in). After that, COBRA is usually the way to go.
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
US states usually require employers to cover up to 2 months of coverage for employees that are laid off (I believe it may even be 60 days after the last day of the month you were laid off in). After that, COBRA is usually the way to go.
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
Why do you think they're being laid off? Okay, the US is different from the UK, but I'd hope they're being re-deployed, and I think a lot of people do want in-person meets - that side of things should start up again once this is over.
I'm picking up things from the news that makes me think we've (to quote Churchill) got to the end of the beginning...
Cheers,
Wol
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
> we can’t plan for or execute on a business that will be forever changed
Understandable its shuttering, but to say business can't be done is wrong and an ugly defeatism. Actual in-person events will go on and thrive. There will be things like [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Canadian_Rocks_for_T... .
Oscon speakers and conference seem to operate on the assumption and goal building a world without software freedom for people.
A few suggestions for future conference organizers: Stop selling talks without disclosure. Stop requiring running of nonfree javascript to sign up to attend. Stop requiring running of nonfree software to view talk recordings. Stop pushing people to run conference related nonfree apps on their phones. Allow speakers to publish recordings of their talks. That would be a start.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Canadian_Rocks_for_Toronto
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
I don't know how well this would work, but it sounds like you're saying "get out of the loss-leader business model". Especially when you're hosting "Free" events, that sounds like good advice.
I'm minded of a photography article I read ages back. The photographer started charging for a photoshoot at "fair cost" rather than doing it "for free". And he also charged for prints etc at "fair cost", rather than trying to recover his shoot costs by charging inflated prices for the prints.
He then discovered that by increasing the price (and the services included) for the shoots, his business actually went up ...
If you are open about costs, and ask people to pay a fair price, they usually will. And then they feel they're getting "value for money" throughout the entire process, rather than trying to take advantage of freebies.
Cheers,
Wol
O'Reilly shutting down its conference group
I don't know how well this would work, but it sounds like you're saying "get out of the loss-leader business model". Especially when you're hosting "Free" events, that sounds like good advice.
I'm minded of a photography article I read ages back. The photographer started charging for a photoshoot at "fair cost" rather than doing it "for free". And he also charged for prints etc at "fair cost", rather than trying to recover his shoot costs by charging inflated prices for the prints.
He then discovered that by increasing the price (and the services included) for the shoots, his business actually went up ...
If you are open about costs, and ask people to pay a fair price, they usually will. And then they feel they're getting "value for money" throughout the entire process, rather than trying to take advantage of freebies.
Cheers,
Wol