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Maybe I would be myself at WCSF this year, if I had found the post about financial support earlier this year. I found it end of September, when the program was already closed. Back in summer there was no real info available on what was planned for the whole events in San Francisco. This forum here should have been open since spring of this year or so… All way too late in my opinion. At least, it’s great a forum was/is here to post such thoughts, concerns etc.Maybe it’s only me or not, don’t know. However, for a lot of reasons, travel planning, vacation planning is done at the beginning of a year, or at least in spring. I’d like to know in that time frame where I could fly in October of a year and if any financial support my be available.
I know this may be difficult, especially for the organizers, however, it would extremely help for visitors from other countries to plan a visit longer and help to gain financial support (also from other sources).We should open up the space for this things:
P2 blogs for local rosetta sites, for example: the team behind de.wordpress.org should be able and allowed to open more than once such P2 blog if needed, better: optionally even O2 blog 🙂Also, give the opportunity to use bbPress forum plugin not the old bbPress 1.x
Give those local community more freedom and more technical power! This WILL bring more rosetta sites under the WordPress.org umbrella and strengthens the whole project a lot in the longterm view!
As less restrictions as possible!!!
For a lot of “Freelancers” or small agencies the whole travel costs (and anything in that field…) is often a big burden and the reason why lots of them cannot even visit those events: WordCamp Europe, San Francisco and all this “bigger” events…
At WordCamp Europe, I saw some speakers were from Automattic or other bigger agencies, so the speakers might get paid by those. — I’d like to know if that’s true or not.
And my question is: what should be done or what is needed to pay all speakers, for example for WordCamp Europe, the travel costs??? Especially for those “community speakers” that are not backed up by Automattic or their own “big agency” (whatever).
For example: I personally need not a T-Shirt, if that would help to financially support more speakers that otherwise could not speak at such an event.
Sounds funny, that all this will be discussed in San Francisco where only a few Europeans are live there on location. For most of us it’s just too expensive.
The community in Europe and other parts of the world IS already growing, maybe the discussion need to be in that direction how the Foundation etc. can better support this process?!?
