The most egregious for me is that these are not publicly streamed nor recorded. Only the demos are recorded, which are worthless to me.
Sounds extremely exclusive. One year during COVID, FOSDEM used a public matrix server for their entire conference and it went really well. No mandatory registration fees were required, anybody could access, there were recordings, presenters could send in a pre-recorded video or present live, and the presenters were available in the main chatroom then in a separate (but public) one after the their presentations.
When I see what FOSDEM did and then this that doesn’t even do half of that, there’s no way I’m donating money.