> > Having been part of the teams that organized the first YAPC::Europe and > first LPW there is a good reason for it being free or in the case of YAPC > as cheap as possible. Kevin Lenzo had done the first YAPC as an alternative > to expensive conferences, especially thinking of students and/or poorer > open source hackers. The phrase "Inclusive not exclusive" I remember being > used a lot.
Yes, IIRC TPC was very expensive and YAPC was the cool alternative ~ I'd never have gone to TPC but YAPC literally brought me full swing into the Perl community, and I think it led to a lot of great Open Source and community development, helped CPAN become what it's become etc. I hope we haven't forgotten all this, and just become begrudging elitists, in love with Perl for no good reason....
