I think the real value is the connections – meeting people, sitting down and exchanging contacts and figuring out the collabs and exchanging of ideas, and I think this is really valuable for developers.
Similar to it geography, at the intersection of Asia and close to Europe and so on, I think what’s really important is figuring out and getting visibility of different companies and activities that are typically not present in your geography. I am mostly Europe and US focused but while here I had visibility on a lot to companies in Asia that I had never recognized before and this is very valuable to me.
Ibrahim Haddad
VP Strategic Programs
The Linux Foundation
(USA)