I like a mix of the larger events, the meetups, the little satellite pre-conference events we put on sometimes.

I like doing hands on technical stuff with folks in the community and the conferences don’t typically offer this, except maybe/sometimes trainings.

I attend a ton of things relatively speaking. But I am more on the building community and increasing activity side of things than regular attendance

Hands on hackathons. Gather your community, connect with a project, grind some PRs in person. Trigger more people to engage deeper and contribute.

Multi-day training in retreat format. Focused time to get better at in-depth topics and some less structured parts to make it fit the stuff I do.

The trainers would need to be primarily people with a strong reputation for teaching and deep knowledge in the ecosystem.

Price could be fairly high if the format was good enough.

But I think it is very hard to execute well (for me to value it as an attendee) as I don’t feel I am constrained in learning things or access to knowledgeable people. I am constrained mostly by time.

But I’d enjoy a focused, dedicated, no-distractions format.