Rafał Malinowski

2885 days ago

It is like planning and throwing a full-on DIY wedding. There is so much invisible administrative and operational work that needs to be done to make any event happen. You know all those drinks and shirts and stuff on tables. Yea, human people carried those from a store to a car to the venue. Again and again and again. They probably fucked up their shoulder or back doing it. (Or maybe that’s just me.)

The realities of organizing a community tech conference: an ill-advised rant

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Warning: this post is an ill-advised, badly timed rant. There are swear words. You have been warned. Also, no one person instigated any of this rant. It’s been building in me for three years. <3 Let me tell you about the realities of organizing a tech conference: it sucks.