> Moderating the panel and getting questions answered probably wasn’t their goal.

> Meeting your favorite YouTubers is one of the main selling points of the conference.

These statements seem at odds with each other. If meeting your favorite YouTubers is the main selling point, then IMO they did a pretty bad job with the fan service.

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Aurornis 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Let me put it this way: They put on a show that matches their style on YouTube and podcasts.

The few fans who get to ask questions aren’t the ones being served. They’re entertaining the mass of people who came to see more of the same content on their YouTube channels, which is disordered chaos where they joke with each other, make fun of things, and joke around.

It’s a continuation of their style everywhere else, and it’s what many of their fans came to see.

If you were expecting a traditional panel style where each question-asker got to be the focus and drive the show for a minute, that’s not their style.

I’m not saying it’s good or bad, it’s just different from what you might expect from a more formal conference.

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hamandcheese 4 days ago | parent [-]

Can't it be disordered, interactive chaos? What's the point of even showing up in person just to be in view-only mode?

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Aurornis 4 days ago | parent [-]

Like I said, I’m saying it’s good or bad or right or wrong.

I do think you’re not the target audience, though. A lot of my maker friends also skip Open Sauce because it’s more about the YouTube personalities than about science and makers

	▲	geerlingguy 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think they're missing out; groups like FOSSF brought a whole quasi-working garage chip fab (they're working on an 8086 working chip, slowly but surely), the creator of ADSBee was there, Meshtastic had a great booth and folks talking about wireless routing and antenna design, etc; it's like a science fair for adults, though there's a bit of the weird Vidcon vibes. You can ignore that part completely, and have a great weekend. There's also a whole robotics, rocket building, and gaming area, and booths ranged from artsy to extremely technical (CuriousMarc was live debugging some old HP oscilloscopes, nearby some Apollo hardware sitting out on a table).

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Dylan16807 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think they're at odds. You can do lots of meeting but that happens outside the panels.