Hi, the intent of my email was just to gather some general feedback and vibes. I have no intention of responding to them individually but Goffi is helping me to make some additional points that I find important.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM Goffi <[email protected]> wrote: > I would rather not have the XSF dinner or eat cheap pizza I 100% agree with the sentiment. I would also prefer a good Summit over Dinner. However the XSF hasn’t actually paid for dinner in a very long time. So getting rid of the dinner doesn’t actually free up budget elsewhere. If it ever came to this I would personally always make the call to rather move the dinner to a everyone pays for themselves model. > It's totally understandable that XSF has difficulties handling that. I'm > wondering what others have to say about your suggestion, or if it's possible > to find a cheaper location, and if not, how much it would actually cost per > person in the end. Again, I'm not even sure to come this year, so it's just an > opinion at this point. A less fancy hotel is not moving the needle significantly. I don’t have 2026 numbers but a cheaper hotel would make it go from 250 to 200 or so. The cheap option would be to find someone who can give us a room for free. > Honestly, I clearly couldn’t come with such a fee to pay. It's already really > costly for me in terms of money and time (I’ve had a full day of traveling to > come, and the same of course to return). > [...] > than have to pay to > attend the summit. And even if I were eligible, I wouldn’t be happy with a > fee-waiver, as other people would need it more than me, and I would find it > unfair. Yes I’m aware that "financial imposter syndrome" is a big risk that we need to mitigate when moving to a fee waiver program. Let me be clear: You absolutely deserve to be there and should have your fee waived. And we need to make this clear to other people as well (if we move to this model). When I said "generous fee waiver" the emphasis was on generous. And the example number of 10¹ was picked deliberately because it represents roughly have the people who came last year. cheers Daniel ¹: The actual number would of course be decided upon by board and scam or something. Not by me.
