Cat HicksI have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction
mks@grimalkina That’s very not cool.
Back when I was organizing a regular meetup, we didn’t have the funds to pay a speaker honorarium but we always covered travel, accommodation, and food. I can’t imagine asking someone to prepare a talk, take days for travel, and *also* have to pay their own way!