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they're expensive

Indeed they are. And they will get even more unfortunately, as all tech is becoming more and more expensive to join. Sadly.

Yeah, but, people's conf budgets are being cut to pay for more tokens.

I had the same sort of reaction: I agree that having friends is a requirement, but needing to attend conferences to gain them gates on ability to pay

Yep. There are potential ways to alleviate this, like funds or reduced fees for less-fortunate folks, etc., but airfares are not getting cheaper, and that still would exclude a large swath of folks

Retroactive nodeconf eu fomo 😭