On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:29, Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org> wrote:
Le 31/01/2019 à 11:15, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
FYI... perhaps you now understand why I was keen to get the committers listed somewhere :-)
Very cool! (and thank you!)
That's an interesting turn of events. Traditionally PyCon US *refused* to offer special prices for core developers, right? (I'm not sure what the motivation is).
I think it was more a matter of choosing not to offer special pricing to anyone, not even folks speaking *at* the conference, or helping to organise it: http://jessenoller.com/blog/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays
Instead, everyone was offered the same access to the Financial Aid program.
I believe that policy has been moderated somewhat in recent years, due to concerns that it was making the CFP process less approachable for folks that weren't in a position to handle the uncertainty associated with being accepted as a speaker, but then having to wait to see if their financial aid was approved before they could accept the speaking slot.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia