"We started a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to help cover the cost of financial assistance. (...) the pleasure and gratitude we felt about that was overlaid

"We started a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to help cover the cost of financial assistance. (...) the pleasure and gratitude we felt about that was overlaid with a feeling of humiliation that once again, a major African open-source software event had been obliged to publicly extend a begging-bowl" The entitlement! Dude, you are literally asking for money to the PSF and feel that a crowdfunding campaign is below you? No one is forcing to do a conference.