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
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👾@grimalkina Why not go and ask the audience for travel donations on the way out? Or pass round a hat during the talk? Or flash up a bank account number? Seems a terrible shame not to go. But surely the travel time is what costs? Or ask the conference to have a ride share site? Or rent a mule? Or do it via video link? Or charge them more for the talk and pay for travel that way?