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by ghaff 2271 days ago
LISA, SCALE, Supercomputing, Gluecon, local DevOps Days, etc.

The thing is that cheap conferences depend on either a company running it for sales purposes (and mostly not then for big events) or volunteers providing cheap labor--both of which limit the options. Volunteers mostly get tired of running conferences when there are large commercial interests involved--as happened with Hadoop.