Anton Vredegoor wrote: [...] > But frankly indeed, I just don't even like to participate to events > that claim to be open for all but don't even acknowledge that the > barriers are extremely high compared to some participants budgets. Your > hype about it being cheap has a very chilling effect on my enthousiasm, > it's the same way with pypy congresses, which I also would have liked > to attend (and this thing even seems to be sponsored by public EU > money). Probably I am still a *rich* person, on a global scale, because > I live in a place with free internet (from a public library). > [...] Well, if you can organise conferences that have lower costs of attendance might I suggest you go ahead and do so? Personally I found that venues were remarkably unhelpful in wanting to be rewarded for their donations of facilities.
I'm not saying that conferences *can't* be organised more cheaply than PyCon and EuroPython, just that to do so would take a considerable extra level of effort that those of us who have compromised to the extent of wanting to earn a living just can't give up enough time to manage. So get off your soapbox and do something. > > 'hey, and my laptop doesn't even have a cdrom, needs almost continous > electricity, it's keyboard is broken (but it works fine with external > keyboard), and it networks via a pcmcia card with a *cable* ' > What do you want, a medal? You've made life choices, which is fine. Just don't moan about the inevitable and predictable consequences of those choices. Instead enjoy that advantages (like you don't have to spend weeks at a time away from home working for clients or teaching classes, for example). Everything has its compensations. If you *could* bring down the cost of computer conferences the world would be forever grateful. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
