Niko Neugebauer • 7/25/2018

An Independent Conference

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The article discusses the meaning and difficulty of maintaining independence in tech conferences, using the SQLPort Community as an example. It argues against conflating marketing with community-driven events, emphasizes resisting sponsor/speaker pressure, and stresses that once independence is lost, community respect is hard to regain.

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