Chaos Communication Congress Call for Participation
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That wasn't the case in the last years and i think it's a bad change. Congress had always had this kind of community feeling and you could always hit up speakers in the hall ways and they'd treat you as equals.
I kinda liked the rule that everyone has to pay the entrance fee, but maybe that's just me.
I hope this doesn't change too much, but the kind of "huge family" feeling was already kind of going away when the event scaled from 3k to 10k people. Probably unavoidable at this scale though. Nevertheless, looking forward to another awesome c3. It's still my highlight of the year.
It's bad form to ask speakers to donate their research, time, and breath, and then also ask them to pay for the privilege.
When I spoke at the CCC, this miffed me a bit.
Believe me, I'm all for offering speakers travel reimbursement, but arguing about that ticket price is kind of out of place.