pcambra, 16 days ago

So attendance is quite restricted to those:

• Company sponsored. Almost exclusively the same big companies we're all thinking about.

• Your session got selected (they're selecting WAY less sessions this year for DrupalCon, matching the expectation of less attendees).

How does this help the #Drupal mission?

Btw, once again for the ones in the back: Student tickets are 485€. The annual academic fee for public universities in Spain is around 1000€.

pcambra, 16 days ago

I guess ambitious site builders need ambitious wallets.

pcambra, 15 days ago

Not to forget that the travel expenses for speakers are not covered :)

rodricels, 16 days ago

@pcambra More context:

• Prague 2014: 400€ earlybird and 575€ on site.
• Barcelona 2015: 544,5€ earlybird and 786,5€ on site.

This stupid progression will result in having to spend an entire salary per person/worker to attend an event that is less and less interesting, with less community presence and more focused on companies presenting their successes and seeing each other's faces.

fgm, 15 days ago

@rodricels @pcambra At some level, it feels a lot like optimizing the event for its revenue generation for the organizers (the DA "technostructure") rather than for the community whence said technostructure emerged. ISTR that is a well-documented phenomenon in organizations theory, but I don't' have the name at had.

pcambra, 15 days ago

@fgm @rodricels this reflection interests me a lot, at what point does the event and association exist merely to support the association and the event rather than to support the project mission.

joachim, 16 days ago

@pcambra How many fewer sessions have they selected? (And, OUCH at the ticket price!)

pcambra, 16 days ago

@joachim I do not know exact numbers but it is a 2 day event now so we're probably in 60% or less.

joachim, 16 days ago

@pcambra 2 days of talks instead of 3 last year, or does the 2 days include the contribution day?

pcambra, 16 days ago

@joachim it's 3 days seems, https://events.drupal.org/barcelona2024/program-glance

sebastix, 15 days ago

@pcambra Yes...that's quite expensive for me as an indie developer...
My talk proposal didn't made it also unfortunately