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Was your last conference poor? - MES020

Was your last conference poor? - MES020

Mastering Embedded Systems vor 10 Jahren

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You know conferences. For sure you do. You might be a fan of them.
Or even not. You might be even disappointed, as I am after visiting
the Embedded Testing 2015 in Munich last week. Although I was
invented as presenter, I was not convinced. I mean the topic was
really good - no other conference or meeting available covering
exactly this specific part in the Embedded Systems realm. But the
conference got stuck as a sponsor-driven event which highlights
products over general knowledge, marketing over sharing of
experience. One could have made a lot more out of this conference.
So the participants have finally had only their others to get
acquainted with each other, hear the problems, discuss and finally
detect the old rule, that the best of conferences are the pauses.
Free time which can be used for connecting and sharing. In this
episode I wanted to highlight the approach of traditional
conferences in comparison to BarCamps. A BarCamp is an
un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in
an open environment. It is the direct response on all attendees who
wanted to create and design their own agenda of content. For me
BarCamps, the un-conferences are by far the better conferences.
Listen to this episode and create understanding about this popular
approach to confer.