I live in a region, in a small town, and with the second wave we have a new type of pandemic dissidents - covid-nihilists. Everything is bad, everyone understands this, there are no places in hospitals, they say, too, in morgues, ambulances do not go, but people do not care, people are sick of it.
The IT industry has adjusted as it always has, except for a few. For example, guys who have business - to arrange huge federal conferences. Bringing conferences online isn't just about sending an office home, it's almost a new business. Oleg Bunin, organizer of Highload ++, RIT ++, PHP Russia, Moscow Python Conf, FrontendConf and others, came to our podcast to tell about all this.
Below are audio, video and quotes.
Nobody was ready for this story
I was surprisingly not discerning, to be honest. It all happened quite suddenly: at the end of February, my team and I made plans, and after a month our plans could be thrown away.
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- Yes this is true. The get-together is very important at the conference, people go there for communication. And few people admit this to themselves. Until now, the heads of IT conferences have not agreed among themselves about what the conference is: is it an educational format or an entertainment one? Obviously, the truth lies somewhere in between.
- It's just that if the conference were education, nothing terrible would have happened because of the pandemic. Everyone would continue to study.
- Yes.
Audio version here
Video version here