Wow didn't realize sponsoring Kubecon Shanghai was the amount of sending a kid to an ivy league...
Those pay-for-play keynotes sure don't come cheap 
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I can't believe they get away with charging for keynotes and charging for admission. The buck stops at me paying to see live advertisements, tyvm.
"my kid couldn't get into college based off their own merit so I paid for them to be accepted" "my project couldn't get a keynote on it's own merit, so I paid for one"
granted if you use pure politics to get accepted you aren't innocent either
Would be nice if the Linux Foundation would be transparent with where all the money is spent for conferences... I'm sure they are making a profit off the top (or prove me wrong with real data).
Or how about companies poor that money into diversity scholarships instead 
That would be good!
I totally get where your coming from, I don't care for the conferences, but something like KubeCon it's pretty clear what it is. They aren't for nerds, it's for vendors, potential customers, and users to educate themselves on the market.
There are people who think Kubecon is the definition of open source, I get for you and me it's obvious, it's not obvious for everyone
Sponsoring @osfc_io is something I have no trouble advocating funding from engineering. 
And I know that sponsorship money in those events actually helps people. It's often used to help people who can't afford it to travel to the event and potentially even give talks. In my mind, that's the *right* use for sponsorship money.
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