Well, turns out I burned through about 16 days of annual paid leave, 3500 USD of personal savings to attend meetings for @w3ctag - probably not something that will be possible for years to come.

Maybe we should set up a structure where companies in a working group (or the TAG, etc.) could share the support (by rotation?) of travel for an invited expert, in a way that doesn't trigger the conflict of interest / related member provisions (might need @W3CAB blessing).

... and also doesn't run the money through the consortium in a way that triggers overhead payments to the host.