@bootlegrydia That's a fair point… Taiwan is genuinely difficult to get to for many people from the PRC, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
That said, we're also hoping to bring a similar Fediverse & Social Web track to FOSS for All Conference later this year—an open source conference held in Seoul. If Taipei doesn't work out, Seoul might be a friendlier option. Stay tuned!
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Organized by FOSS for All, the FOSS for ALl conference is a non-profit open source community conference that aims to be an open source conference for all, with the slogan “Free and Open Source Software for All”. In many countries, various open source-centered non-profit conferences such as COSCUP (Taiwan) and FOSDEM (Belgium) are actively held, nourishing the open source ecosystem in their respective countries. In Korea, large global open source projects such as Python, Golang, Ubuntu, OpenStack, and Kubernetes are able to organize their own conferences by recruiting steering committees and sponsors, but individual or smaller open source projects have a hard time organizing technical exchange events. FOSS for All was started in Korea to help the local open source ecosystem by hosting a conference that brings together open source projects from various fields.