* academics don't want to get scooped, because of "publish or perish"
* FOSS communities view it as a goal to have more people working on the same things
Idea: get NSF TIP program managers to endorse the conference in some important way. This will grab the attention of top academic researchers and might better bootstrap the event in the eyes of academics.
Other key people to bring in to make critical mass in an event:
* funders: National Science Foundation (NSF), Open Tech Fund (OTF)
* government/regulators: auto regulators, European Commission
CORE ranking system is key measure for some universities, they only want to submit to well ranked events https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal
* How can we include small universities? There are lots of them around the world, they often work directly with practitioners already. They have a lot more flexibility and are much cheaper to fund.
SATML https://satml.org/
Let's try to organize something at https://scored.dev/
