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Mefaso t1_iuva45y wrote

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>The people harvesting the profits should ideally be the ones doing the work!

Conferences are all nonprofits

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PeedLearning t1_iuwdj73 wrote

[citation needed]

Some are non-profit, but for example most of the IEEE conferences are for-profit... Another common theme is conference non-profits subcontracting a lot of organizational aspects to for-profits.

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Mefaso t1_iuymntw wrote

IEEE is also a nonprofit

> Another common theme is conference non-profits subcontracting a lot of organizational aspects to for-profits.

That is true, but it's also a lot of work to organize a conference

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