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
Chris Wu 🪐@grimalkina I gave my first conference talk in October at @SwiftLeeds and am feeling so thankful that was not the case in my scenario. Like you said, covering expenses opens up the floor to so many other people.
@MuseumShuffle @SwiftLeeds good for you, congratulations!
@grimalkina thank you! It was such an adventure.