It’s clear that many people at least don’t mind Cremieux being invited [ETA: as a featured author-guest] to LessOnline, but it’s also clear (from this comment thread) that many people do mind Cremieux being invited to LessOnline, and some of them mind it quite strongly.
This is a (potential) reason to reconsider the invitation and/or explicitize some norms/standards that prospective LessOnline invitees are expected to meet.
Small ~nitpick/clarification: in my understanding, at issue is Crémieux being a featured guest at LessOnline, rather than being allowed to attend LessOnline; “invited to” is ambiguous between the two.
It is ambiguous, but it’s hinting more strongly towards being a featured author guest because “normal/usual/vanilla guests” are not Being Invited by the organizers to attend the conference in the sense in which this word is typically used in this context.
It’s clear that many people at least don’t mind Cremieux being invited [ETA: as a featured author-guest] to LessOnline, but it’s also clear (from this comment thread) that many people do mind Cremieux being invited to LessOnline, and some of them mind it quite strongly.
This is a (potential) reason to reconsider the invitation and/or explicitize some norms/standards that prospective LessOnline invitees are expected to meet.
Small ~nitpick/clarification: in my understanding, at issue is Crémieux being a featured guest at LessOnline, rather than being allowed to attend LessOnline; “invited to” is ambiguous between the two.
It is ambiguous, but it’s hinting more strongly towards being a featured author guest because “normal/usual/vanilla guests” are not Being Invited by the organizers to attend the conference in the sense in which this word is typically used in this context.
But fair, I’ll ETA-clarify.