On 4 Jun 2020, at 15:44, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:
Full disclosure: Axel and Rob kindly waived the meeting fee for me when my business was struggling ~10 years ago. My airmiles paid for travel and accommodation.
You forgot to mention that that was while you were a WG-chair.
True. Though I thought everyone would have known I was a WG chair at that time. It wasn’t a freebie just to hang out at the meeting. No matter.
I always thought that the ability of the RIPE chair to sponsor people to the meetings included the WG-chairs so I'm wondering a bit why they should be mentioned separately.
That’s true. Though in the past, the RIPE Chairman could ask for the meeting fee to be waived whenever someone who lacked funding was making a significant contribution to the meeting. This didn’t extend to travel and accommodation. IIUC that element was added when the RIPE Fellowship thing (aimed at research students?) started.