Well, the good news is that Sourclabs pays all of my expenses, so you don't have to. The bad news is that I can probably get ten times the audience if I stay home and write on my blog that I can get by presenting at your conference and having the usual garbled press coverage of what I said. So, I have in general stopped accepting speaking opportunities unless they are close enough to my home in Berkeley, California that I can do them with less than a day of travel, or unless they are really special. In 2005 I presented at the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, and that was special. I gladly went to Tunisia for that one.
Can you offer me something special? An opening keynote at a big show? Or are you presenting me with the opportunity to blow a week, with travel and jet lag and all, to speak to a room of 50 people. Please think it through, and then if you think you have something good, write to bruce at perens dot com.