Are you treating live events like in-person events? Stop limiting yourself! Live events offer more scale and interaction than in-person events. With in-person, there's an "interactive tipping point" where you'll never be able to involve everyone. With a live event, everyone's connected,
If you think of webinars more like conference talks (and less like sales events), it makes it easier to understand why they're useful. Teaching at scale. Conferences are platforms that do the marketing for you with the trade-off that you may not get accepted. Once you (or your
It can be hard to attract core contributors for open source projects that require "specialized expertise." Think databases or game engines, which might have heavily optimized performance code or complex algorithms. But that's no reason to throw your hands up and declare, "Nobody can contribute.
