Tosconf
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The self-described 'shoddy conference' run by the Laboratório Hacker de Campinas - a deliberately unpolished, free, community event whose name is a joke at the expense of conference production values.
Tosconf is the Brazilian scene's satire of its own professionalisation, and it functions as a release valve. As events acquire sponsors, badges, expo halls and executive tracks, something has to hold the space for the talk nobody would accept elsewhere and the demo that might not work. Naming that space 'shoddy' on purpose is a very precise piece of community self-awareness.
Also known as: conferencia tosca, lhc campinas, tosconf campinas