I work in video/audio production so a lot of my work ends up venn diagramming with events. Especially media projection/delivery at events. Sound systems, projectors, etc.
When you organize a conference on a location, you are using what they have on site or at best your laptop is hooked in. You have way too much to worry about to bring all your own hardware and to build out the entire media infrastructure conference in a hotel or convention space or wherever you are holding the event. That’s assuming you’re even allowed to access the areas in systems that would allow you to implement your own!
That is an unbelievably laborious task that is unreasonable to put on basically any group. At best weeks of work/installs on top of all the other massive logistic issues you’re handling. If they have a Windows terminal for you to show your presentation, you’re not going to rebuild everything from the ground up just so you can show some static images on open source software/machines. It’s just not reasonable.
When you organize a conference on a location, you are using what they have on site or at best your laptop is hooked in. You have way too much to worry about to bring all your own hardware and to build out the entire media infrastructure conference in a hotel or convention space or wherever you are holding the event. That’s assuming you’re even allowed to access the areas in systems that would allow you to implement your own!
That is an unbelievably laborious task that is unreasonable to put on basically any group. At best weeks of work/installs on top of all the other massive logistic issues you’re handling. If they have a Windows terminal for you to show your presentation, you’re not going to rebuild everything from the ground up just so you can show some static images on open source software/machines. It’s just not reasonable.