Reminder: if your FOSS project coordinates things at in-person conferences, then that means that your project governance is not accessible.
For a wide variety of reasons ranging from cost, to nationality, to physical ability to travel.
Another addition: "let us know if you cannot afford this" really isn't enough. It pretty clearly signals "we don't think you belong here if you're poor, but if you ask real nice we might be generous", which is extremely fucked up.
I really should write a broader article about accessible in-person events some day...
@joepie91 I always wondered who would pay so much to attend an event with their own private money. Even as a business I think the prices are sometimes ridiculous.
@joepie91 do you think we have done this for NixOS? (genuine question)
@raito It was not the specific thing that prompted this toot, but I *have* been worrying about the recent apparent increase of things suddenly existing or decisions suddenly being made after NixCon.
Definitely feels like things are headed that way, that there's not much (conscious) mind being paid to this, and that it could become problematic.
(Corrolary: if your events cost 1000+ EUR, that means that they are for corporations only)