Mike McCaffreyWell, the $25 tickets for the #Drupalcon gala are sold out, and it seems that $125 is too much for our nonprofit-focused agency to shell out for a social event, and the same is likely the case for many independent contributors, so I guess that evening will be yet another opportunity for "enterprise-level" members of our community to rub shoulders and plot the direction of #Drupal for the rest of us.
Natalie@mikemccaffrey $125 as the regular ticket pricing for an evening, in the current environment, has me feeling all sorts of ways.
@cainaru I'm thinking about how much pizza and beer $125 would buy.
@mikemccaffrey I’d imagine for one person, you’d get *a lot* of pizza and beer for $125. But then again, my mind’s default is still programmed to pre-inflation prices so who knows now (FWIW, I’ve never spent anywhere near that much on a meal for myself before).
@mikemccaffrey All I know is that, at 21 weeks pregnant, the food there had better be amazing given that regular ticket pricing was $125.
Our household is has been 1-income on ~$60-70k per year since I got laid off back in October 2024 (partner is also a Drupal developer but in higher ed), so I got us the $25 subsidized tickets when they were still available.
@mikemccaffrey Then yesterday my partner had asked if there were any other parties planned during the conference like there have been in previous years (context: trying to plan the rest of our evenings). I told him that it sounded like the orgs that have typically held the free ones in the past were co-sponsoring this one instead, and I mentioned the regular ticket pricing for this was $125.
@mikemccaffrey I swear, once I mentioned about the regular ticket pricing being $125 (he originally thought the regular ticket pricing was $25 when I first relayed the info to him and a few other former higher ed colleagues who will be first-timers to DrupalCon this year), it broke his brain for a good 20 minutes LOL.
I had to keep reminding him “look, I don’t disagree with you one bit about what you’re saying. I’m just the messenger here.”
@mikemccaffrey I’m just hoping none of this comes up in a convo around my MIL (his mom) because wheeeeeeeee it’d probably break her brain for like 2-4 hours with a heaping dose of “that’s as much as yearly pickleball memberships” slathered throughout it lol
@cainaru Apparently they are making more $25 tickets available via lottery, somehow weighted by the amount of contribution, so somehow they managed to make this event even more unwelcoming to new contributors.
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