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More and more conferences like this—about online communities, about openness. To participate in them all—just to attend!—would worsen the overall carbon load. Also prove exhausting. But the surge of such events makes one think that a) there is a real groundswell or (and this would not negate the first) b) a set of organisers have realised that there is yet another way to make money out of open source, one that had previously been most exploited by O’Reilly and the (now much changed) Linux Conferences: open source the conference.

Source: CoR – EuroPCom 2015: 6th European Conference for Public Communication