i did not know it was common for OSS/linux/opensource/etc style projects to charge there volunteers to attend , wish i was rich computer programmer with lots of free time to kill at these events but i am not , i am the complete opposition being disabled and unable to find any neche in the computer world anymore , i found work very hard when i was a computer programmer starting out and was only in work for 4 years and the company had a restructing. I lost my job and never found another one been unemployed for 22 years now. I do not have a degree and did try to get a computer programming degree but cos i was too bad customer for the banks i could not pay for student halls (i never paid for accomodation in the end at univeristy of humberside n licoln at the hull campus) it was a nightmare. I did get a little bit of support from disabled student suppport services got diagnose with dyselixa and got a special stamp that i used on my assignments which really meant that the lectureers just gave me a pass mark on most of them some of thut programming stuff i was getting merits on. I found the degree pretty lame really and a lot of very dishearted lectureers that where being overworked and stretched across a number of different campuses. The maths lecture just told me to copy somebody elses work cos he did not have time to explain it too me.
so in the end i never went back after the first year and a few grand in debt to the student loan company i guess they will never get it back. very bored mark in redditch On 3 May 2016 at 18:08, Martín Ferrari <tin...@tincho.org> wrote: > On 02/05/16 21:56, Rob Nickerson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Tickets for State of the Map 2016 are now on sale. Get yours before the >> price goes up (to EUR 100)! > > Sadly, this cost is too high to justify attending. I care about OSM, and > I have been a silent contributor for years, but spending on plane > tickets, acommodation, and on top of that 75-100 EUR to attend the > conference, is just too much money for this little hobby of mine. > > I think it is a sad state when most libre projects I care about charge > its own volunteers to gather and improve the community, specially when > corporate sponsors could be offsetting this cost. OSM is far from the > only one, I am just writing this because I am getting increasingly > annoyed by the situation. > > -- > Martín Ferrari (Tincho) > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
