Because of my family situation, my margins of money, spoons, and time have only ever allowed me to justify conference travel if I have a talk accepted. Otherwise Iâm out >$1k in tix/hotel/travel I canât afford and with no PR boost to offset it. Iâd love to be able to go just to see friends and sessions, but I canât justify it.
@avdi Sorry, didn't mean to make you put it all out there. I thought there was another DHH moment or something!
Nah, I appreciate the prompt to talk about it.
@avdi I remember talking to Jennifer Robbins about how much I appreciated her and the team keeping Artifact Conf actually affordable for folks (when that conf used to still run).
She shared a bunch of info on how absurdly stressful it is because the margins are crazy tight and you're basically running in the red until a week before the event, with vendors that all need to get paid.
@avdi what happened?
Because of my family situation, my margins of money, spoons, and time have only ever allowed me to justify conference travel if I have a talk accepted. Otherwise Iâm out >$1k in tix/hotel/travel I canât afford and with no PR boost to offset it. Iâd love to be able to go just to see friends and sessions, but I canât justify it.
@avdi Sorry, didn't mean to make you put it all out there. I thought there was another DHH moment or something!
Nah, I appreciate the prompt to talk about it.
@avdi I remember talking to Jennifer Robbins about how much I appreciated her and the team keeping Artifact Conf actually affordable for folks (when that conf used to still run).
She shared a bunch of info on how absurdly stressful it is because the margins are crazy tight and you're basically running in the red until a week before the event, with vendors that all need to get paid.