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by jnoller 5083 days ago
As a conference organizer for PyCon, I wrote a piece on this last year when the same types of questions arose from a series of Node/JS/Ruby conferences (Non-Profit/Community Python conferences did not, as far as I know, spark the debate).

http://jessenoller.com/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays/

It's a different community/conference and ethos going back the 10 years of PyCon.