In reply to Sally G..

I respectfully disagree. We, as a Community, should be attracting everyone. I wouldn’t want to receive an invitation to attend or even speak at a WordCamp because I am Latino or Slavic. I am Croatian/Peruvian living in Canada. One parent is Croatian, the other is Peruvian. I would want to receive an invitation to attend/speak because the people inviting me think and contribute to the event. Not because one side of my ancestors are from South America or the other from Eastern Europe. I do not want to receive an invitation because of my gender identity, gender orientation, religion, colour of my eyes, etc…
Same for when I was a starting freelancer or a student.

If I would of received an invitation when my income was a lot lower than it is today, I would of found it insulting. I would feel like a token charity case.

Hence why I said in-person at $20. You get no lunch, t-shirt or whatever other swag. That is it. You attend the event.
I have boxes upon boxes of over 500+ t-shirts from WordCamps and other events. I might of wore them once during each event. When I got home, I washed them, then put them in boxes upon boxes in my basement closet.

Lowering the expenses WordCamps have to go through can mean lowering ticket prices.

In the example above where $20 is the price for in-person tickets.
$10 for the streaming ticket.

Streaming ticket means a lot of savings, specially if you are attending a WordCamp outside your city. No hotel costs, no meals costs, no coffee costs, no transportation to the city costs, no within the city and back to your hotel transportation costs.