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I’ll have to back out as I’ll be attending the speaker dinner that night, but feel free to enjoy dinner without me 🙂
Yeah, I’m well aware of those issues (and the Envato dustup caused Envato to finally enable their authors to offer truly GPL licenses… which seems like a good thing).
I don’t know that I have much to add personally to this, but it seems like a worthy topic for discussion.
Could you specify what restriction you refer to? If you mean the restriction that speakers/sponsors need to follow the WordPress license, I’m not sure I see that as a diversity issue at all. Seems like asking that folks speaking/sponsored at events being organized under the umbrella of the WordPress Foundation to be in line with the WordPress license shouldn’t be burdensome…
If you mean another restriction, please clarify 🙂
+1 – good topic, and I could see it growing a bit (either on purpose or accidentally) into the “What should a WordCamp be” question as noted in many of the comments on that post. We’re seeing more non-WordCamp events spring up that seem to be appeasing some of the folks who didn’t like the guidelines of a WordCamp.
I’m happy to share some experiences of how we found non-traditional WordCamp speakers for WordCamp Portland in years past (both local and non-local… and we covered zero expenses for any of them).
A big +1 (would that be a +3) to this topic. It’s a balancing act in that we want to provide new information to repeat WordCamp attendees, yet each event also features a nontrivial number of first-time folks who might benefit from seeing the same/similar material as has been presented in past years.
