I unfortunately have to suggest that those of you planing to go to
eurobsdcon in karlsruhe hold back on booking your tickets. The
organizers have failed to confirm that they cover speakers' travel and
accomodation expenses despite countless requests. This is not an issue of
us being able to afford it or not - it is standard practice for
conferences to do so. And it must be. Writing software in your free
time, giving it away for free, and then traveling around the world on
your own budget to speak about it just doesn't work out. It's a matter
of fairness. Conferences charge quite a bit for admittance, and part of
that money covers the speakers' expenses. We don't know where/how the
organizers intend to use that money. The talks and thus the speakers
are what you pay for, after all.
In short, without the organizers covering our expenses most openbsd
speakers will not come to eurobsdcon.
I'm sorry that you guys suffer from this, but there really isn't
anything we can do about it.
