If you attended remotely, there are unlimited fee waivers for remote attendance. As Kyle says, the video teleconferencing situation is pretty spectacular.
For in person attendance, there are a small number of fee waivers, but they are much harder to get.
In both cases, a fee waiver has to be applied for.
So if you did the hackathon in Madrid and/or splurged for the workshop in Madrid (or received one of the small number of fee waivers), you could attend Montreal remotely on a fee waiver.
In all of those cases, you need to figure out which working groups interest you, read the mail list, review the drafts, etc.
Deb Cooley
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM Michael De Roover <ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday, June 9, 2025 7:09:34 PM CEST Kyle Rose wrote:
> I do think the IETF's problem with inclusivity is made worse by the
> expensive meetings necessary for access to the hallway track, but that is
> merely one problem among many. It seems obvious to me that there will never
> be a perfectly level playing field (and we should be careful to heed the
> lessons of Harrison Bergeron in our attempts to level it) but lots could be
> done to make it easier for new folks with new ideas to contribute. But at
> the same time let's not fool ourselves into thinking the barriers are all
> within the control of the IETF or existing participants to solve. Getting
> involved in standards development to the point where one can make an actual
> contribution is *hard* and requires application of time and real effort,
> whether you are on a company expense account or not.
>
> One bright spot is that remote participation has improved the experience
> for both remote and in-person attendees by at the very least making it
> clear who is speaking at the mic. The remote experience is frankly about as
> good as I could imagine short of actual telepresence and holo-Dukes walking
> the hallways. But with the excellence of Meetecho in 2025, we may have hit
> the point of diminishing returns on remote participation: other aspects of
> the participant experience likely have lower-hanging fruit.
>
> Kyle
I've been wanting to go to one of these IETF conferences, but I have to admit,
the 1000 bucks price point is quite a bitter pill to swallow when doing it out
of pocket. Generally when I go to FOSDEM (which I have been attending since
2016), I basically just buy that year's shirt and a couple of beers, alongside
the train tickets to get there. All things considered, probably something like
50 euro? Well, that and maybe a hotel, but all of Brussels is consistently
over capacity for those weekends. Easier to just take a train back home for
the night.
For the IETF conferences meanwhile, I'll have to go by plane (which is fine),
and probably stick to Madrid or maybe Dublin. But Dublin would apparently have
a visa requirement that I'm not really familiar with. So far I only fly
regularly within the EU.
I do like that the hackathons are free (if memory serves), it really adds to
that crowd-sourced spirit that I've gotten accustomed to from FOSDEM. For the
first time going to an IETF conference, I think I'll start with just that to
test the waters. After that though, doing a one-time splurge.. why not. But
even if I do manage to start a business by that time, it would just be a
business expense in accounting at best. Much easier when it's a big corporate
employer footing the bill, that much is for sure... I remember even for the
LPI exams I took at FOSDEM (where they are 50% off), most of my peers were
paying for it through their employers as well.
--
Met vriendelijke groet,
Michael De Roover
Mail: ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: michael.de.roover.eu.org
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