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"Be humble it's a privilege to talk to a conference so pay for your own travel and hotel and check your ego at the door". Wow. The level of bullshit here is amazing. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… 
This reminds me of some people who went from "we will sponsor your event, you will have the venue and organize a workshop for your community" to "please create a specific workshop for our community first and we will then let you the venue in 4 months"
I asked "How do you do this, do you pay workshop speakers" they explained to me that no, and usually companies like IBM pay to give a workshop. I told them we are not IBM and have nothing to sell to their community and creating a workshop just for them is a lot of work.
They told us we will have "visibility in return". Noooope. This is the one thing you should never tell me ^^
So we declined. Because going from "we will sponsor your event" to "work for free for us first and you can have the room" isn't a sponsor at all. Never work for free.
So we declined. Because going from "we will sponsor your event" to "work for free for us first and you can have the room" isn't a sponsor at all. Never work for free.
Hum, this person deleted the post. I'm wondering if I should delete the screenshots as well then, to to respect sort of a "right to be forgotten" or something?
More information apparently about what happened here, sad thing is that it's again a woman who gets into trouble 😶
An update from @BigDesign: "Based on your feedback, it is apparent that we have an out-dated travel policy. We want to improve it. Our goal with the new travel policy is to hear from fresh voices and alleviate the stress of speaker conference costs." bigdesignevents.com/2019/06/01/big…
