Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 06:51:49PM -0500, Erik McCormick wrote:
I would also be curious to hear from anyone who is basing their travel choices on the approval status of a Forum session. I believe that this number is 0, but I'm ready to be proven wrong.
There are companies that only fund 'speakers' for travel and there are some developer types (like myself) that will be moderating forum sessions (hopefully) but not talking at the summit.
So there certainly *are* people in this situation.
I can confirm that. I almost missed attending Berlin because I did not have a speaking session approved, despite having two self-healing SIG sessions to moderate. This nearly happened again with Denver 2019 in fact. I suspect the problem here is not companies valuing developer sessions less than presentations (certainly not in the case of my employer anyway!), but rather that the Forum and PTG sessions / schedules are determined much later than that of the main summit, by which time many companies need to have already approved and booked travel in order to avoid expensive flights / hotels. Therefore I would request that if possible the idea is considered to bring this planning forward so that it happens roughly at the same time as the Summit. I do appreciate that might cause unmanageably high workloads for certain Foundation staff, but if so maybe there is a middle ground which could work? Cheers, Adam