Separate to Vim, this concept should become more popular. Real world conferences have their place, for sure, but some topics are avoided as they probably wouldn't break even, and seeing more things like this would be great.
In fact, that's one of the reasons I'm working on building CastingCode.tv (http://castingcode.tv) as a platform to serve both ad-hoc and organized live coding events to the web. :)
Are you the same creator as vimconf? The sites look alike and so did the emails (subject atleast, did not open). Are you the submitter of this? Why two different usernames if so. And why promote them both??
I am indeed the same person behind both CastingCode.tv and VimConf. However, I did not submit this VimConf article to HN. That was done by somebody else and I had no idea it was being submitted, so it took me by surprise.
Totally agree Peter! Having given a couple webinars over the past few weeks, I think there is still a lot of room to grow for these types of online events! I'm hoping this sparks interest in other online conferences in those smaller niche subjects that historically may not have drawn a crowd to a physical location.
