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On her blog, Máirín Duffy writes
about using open-source software to run a virtual conference. The Fedora design team
recently ran the first Creative
Freedom Summit as a virtual conference for FOSS creative tools. The team
could have used the same non-open-source platform that is used by the Flock Fedora conference, but took a
different path:

Using Matrix’s Element client, we embedded the live stream video and an
Etherpad into a public Matrix room for the conference. We used attendance
in the channel to monitor overall conference attendance. We had live chat
going throughout the conference and took questions from audience members
both from the chat and the embedded Q&A Etherpad.

Back in 2020, the Linux Plumbers Conference also put together a virtual conference using free
software, as did LibrePlanet and likely others.