Will this conference be somehow enabled for real-time online participation?



While I'm all for BU devs meeting up in real life and getting to know each other etc. I don't see how most of the objectives of the conference aren't already able to be satisfied even without a physical conference.



So I guess I don't quite see the point of this particular venture, except as a vehicle to bring devs and industry leaders into physical contact.



In that sense, unless it's somehow far more transparent and openly accessible, it's going to attract the same "closed room meeting" criticisms to which similar meetings have been subjected (specifically the Roundtable II which had lackluster online presence).



I don't know the magnitude of expenditure on conference technology to open this meeting up, but I'd like to see it budgeted in addition to the "funds to cover the conference room, catering and direct conference expenses for approximately 10 attendees".



Ideally, I'd rather see the on-chain scaling projects work together toward a common online Bitcoin technical conference infrastructure - open to the world and more satisfactorily accessible than the recent WebEx conferences - where there can be some cross-pollination and building of a bigger community.