[$] Notes from an online free-software conference

The 2020 Linux PlumbersConference (LPC) was meant to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at theend of August. As it happens, your editor was on the organizing committeefor that event and thus got a close view of what happens when one's hopesfor discussing memory-management changes on the Canadian eastern seaboardbecome one of the many casualties of an ongoing pandemic. TransformingLPC into a successful online experience was a lot of work, but the resultsmore than justified the effort. Read on for some notes and thoughts fromthe experience of making LPC happen in 2020.