Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Europython is cheap to attend, and has been held twice in Charleroi, > > Belgium, for example -- if you're in the Netherlands, you could have ... > The gist of it is that for me a few hundred euros is and was a *lot* of > money, and that this talk about 'cheap to attend' irritates me a lot.
I just don't understand, always assuming you're in the Netherlands, how attending Europython in Belgium (as opposed to Pycon in the US) could have cost hundreds of euros. Conference registration is free to speakers, bicycling NL->BE not costly (many were driving from NL, so bumming a ride was far from impossible either), many attendants arranged to "crash" for free thanks to the hospitality of others, food costs in Belgium aren't much different from those in NL. I'm not saying a few hundred euros is 'cheap' -- it obviously isn't, if your income is low to nonexistent; rather, I'm wondering where that "hundreds" amount comes from. You originally mentioned only pycon (where the need to fly to the US, for people living in Europe, can obviously account for "hundreds of euros" already); Europython is specifically held in Europe to be cheaper and more convenient to attend for Europeans, and I've always met many people there who fell in the "income low to nonexistent" bracket for one reason or another. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list