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
Steve Loughran@grimalkina I've spoken at a conf way back whose police was very much "small independent speaker: we pay you to speak". Corporate minion speaker: we will let you in for free. I think that's a good policy