diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 11b6bf4..18e273f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,13 +12,12 @@ SquatConf won't be your everyday conference, but we'll have good talks from amaz ## How is this possible? -Conferences costs are huge, and ticket prices are often [nowhere near the true per-attendee cost](http://2014.lxjs.org/about/), even for a non-profit conference. +Conference costs are huge, and ticket prices are often [nowhere near the true per-attendee cost](http://2014.lxjs.org/about/), even for a non-profit conference. -Fancy venues, transporation, hotels and food are really nice perks to have, but… +Fancy venues, transportation, hotels and food are really nice perks to have, but… If you hold a conference in a squat… the speakers advance their travel expenses… -host in squatted spaces… tell people to bring some food… and the wifi will be dodgy for sure… @@ -36,11 +35,11 @@ We will provide a space, we will provide a context, some talks, and the rest wil ## Who is behind this? -The inception of SquatConf was at [LXJS](http://2014.lxjs.org/). It was a great conference, and the organisation did an amazing job, and after the final day of the event we ended up with [dominictarr](https://github.com/dominictarr), [joates](https://github.com/joates) and [I](https://github.com/gorhgorh) talking about autonomous self driving boats when this idea came to life. Now the idea matured and some folks ([mmalecki](https://github.com/mmalecki), [nathan7](https://github.com/nathan7), [no9](https://github.com/no9), [substack](https://github.com/substack), ...) are in the loop now. +The inception of SquatConf was at [LXJS](http://2014.lxjs.org/). It was a great conference, and the organisation did an amazing job, and after the final day of the event we ended up with [dominictarr](https://github.com/dominictarr), [joates](https://github.com/joates) and [I](https://github.com/gorhgorh) talking about autonomous self-driving boats when this idea came to life. Now the idea matured and some folks ([mmalecki](https://github.com/mmalecki), [nathan7](https://github.com/nathan7), [no9](https://github.com/no9), [substack](https://github.com/substack), ...) are in the loop now. ## Okay, so you're a bunch of idealists, running a 10-people conference in a dump. -What you'll get out of SquatConf is in the end exactly what you want to put into SquatConf. +What you'll get out of SquatConf is in the end exactly what you to put into SquatConf. - Tickets will be donation-based. You want a cheap conference? Give us nothing. You want food? Contribute. - This won't be a 400-people event, but do you *need* that many people?