I 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
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@grimalkina @inthehands I’d love for you to share your work in a keynote presentation at a PHP programming language conference. Conferences in the PHP community are among the few (among programming language conferences) who still cover speaker travel, hotel, and conference ticket. (There are no stipends or per diems, but lunch is provided, and there’s usually some kind of food in the evenings.)
I’d be happy to make some introductions, if you're interested.
@ramsey @inthehands how kind of you to think of me. When my schedule allows I love to keynote -- folks can check out some previous keynotes here and reach out anytime. For a conference especially led by a technical community (rather than internal company talk), I typically do not expect a stipend: https://www.drcathicks.com/speaking
@grimalkina I've spoken at a conf way back whose police was very much "small independent speaker: we pay you to speak". Corporate minion speaker: we will let you in for free. I think that's a good policy
I will figure out a path to my own sharing of work, but it is sad to me to feel there is this intellectual community you need to have a FAANG credit card to be part of. That's just not how it should work and we will see the consequences of these structures quickly in who gets to be on stage. This isn't a call out of any single organization, I'm always really honored to be thought of, but it's hard for me to understand how you can sell $1000 tickets on our content and not support creators
