Swiss Testing Day, Remove Your Mandatory Sponsorship Requirement for Speakers
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Sandra
6 years ago
Agreed 100%
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Conor Morgan
7 years ago
Thanks for making us all aware of this unacceptable tactic, Ilari.
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David Buchmann
7 years ago
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Think about why you organize this conference? If its about delivering the best possible content to your audience, you will miss out big time with pay to speak and end up with a bunch of advertisement sessions.
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Léo Davesne
7 years ago
Value comes from the speakers!
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Simon Schrijver
7 years ago
Why do you want a huge profit over the back of testers
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Anonymous
7 years ago
It makes no sense to limit the choice of speakers in this way. Even more, it is toxic for the testing community. But luckily such a decision can be reversed quickly ;-)
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David Baer
7 years ago
As a conference listener I would like the organiser to be totally transparent how the speaker was selected so I can make up my mind whether it is worth my time.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
+1
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Carl-Emil Kjellstrand
7 years ago
+1
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Hagen Nesch
7 years ago
I totally support this Petition
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Katrine Kavli
7 years ago
It's not only a douchebag move, it makes me wonder what hidden agenda the company behind the conference have. It makes them dishonest, and asocial, with a total lack of respect for knowledge and skill.
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Elizabeth Farrell
7 years ago
Paytospeak is a form of poverty forced on perfectly good speakers who don't have a company willing or able to pay sponsorship for them to speak.
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Gerald Mücke
7 years ago
Speaker
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Martin Nilsson
7 years ago
Pay to speak is not helpful for anyone and lower the overall quality of the community and the business
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Patrick Baumgartner
7 years ago
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Speaker - Content creation is a huge effort. It's not fair to charge speakers and ask participants for big money.
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Fiona Charles
7 years ago
A vendor promotion talk is radically different from a content-rich and advertising-free talk given by someone who happens also to sell services.
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Ben Kelly
7 years ago
Conference should make a clear distinction between paid spots for vendor promotions and content that does not advertise. Conflating them because the presenter happens to work in a certain business is silly.
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Andrew Morton
7 years ago
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As an attendee, I cannot condone spending my money or asking my company to send me to known Pay to Speak conferences. This example is fairly egregious too.
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Syed Ali
7 years ago
All pay to speak conferences must end, if you make profits then you can pay speakers costs and even think about paying speakers!
Agreed 100%
Thanks for making us all aware of this unacceptable tactic, Ilari.
Think about why you organize this conference? If its about delivering the best possible content to your audience, you will miss out big time with pay to speak and end up with a bunch of advertisement sessions.
Value comes from the speakers!
Why do you want a huge profit over the back of testers
It makes no sense to limit the choice of speakers in this way. Even more, it is toxic for the testing community. But luckily such a decision can be reversed quickly ;-)
As a conference listener I would like the organiser to be totally transparent how the speaker was selected so I can make up my mind whether it is worth my time.
+1
+1
I totally support this Petition
It's not only a douchebag move, it makes me wonder what hidden agenda the company behind the conference have. It makes them dishonest, and asocial, with a total lack of respect for knowledge and skill.
Paytospeak is a form of poverty forced on perfectly good speakers who don't have a company willing or able to pay sponsorship for them to speak.
Speaker
Pay to speak is not helpful for anyone and lower the overall quality of the community and the business
Speaker - Content creation is a huge effort. It's not fair to charge speakers and ask participants for big money.
A vendor promotion talk is radically different from a content-rich and advertising-free talk given by someone who happens also to sell services.
Conference should make a clear distinction between paid spots for vendor promotions and content that does not advertise. Conflating them because the presenter happens to work in a certain business is silly.
As an attendee, I cannot condone spending my money or asking my company to send me to known Pay to Speak conferences. This example is fairly egregious too.
All pay to speak conferences must end, if you make profits then you can pay speakers costs and even think about paying speakers!
Speaker