<div dir="auto"><div>Totally agree with you!</div><div dir="auto">Personally there was no way I could have afforded to stay at the hotel that hosted RIPE84. (luckily there was a much less expensive one a few hundred meters away that I could stay at in that case)<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Cynthia</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, 00:26 Leo Vegoda, <<a href="mailto:leo@vegoda.org">leo@vegoda.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Cynthia,<br>
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 2:40 PM Cynthia Revström <<a href="mailto:me@cynthia.re" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">me@cynthia.re</a>> wrote:<br>
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> My point was more that I personally feel like that it shouldn't factor<br>
> in more heavily than more outright hostility against LGBTQ+ people and<br>
> such.<br>
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I agree that concerns for physical safety are the most important.<br>
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But we need to balance multiple factors and the amount of money it<br>
costs to attend is definitely an important factor in enabling<br>
diversity.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Leo<br>
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